690 NOCTUID.E. 



with a few dark scales, the terminal half rufous ; a diffused red- 

 brown antemedial line, oblique from cell to inner margin ; orbicular 

 a black point, the reniform defined by a few black scales ; a white 

 streak on extremity of median nervure and base of vein 4 ; a dark 

 brown spot on costa above end of cell and somewhat incurved line 

 from the white streak to inner margin ; postmedial line dark brown, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved, defined by 

 whitish on outer side towards costa ; subterminal line represented 

 by a faint pale striga from costa with a slight blackish mark beyond 

 it below apex ; a terminal series of black stria? defined on inner side 

 by a white line from below apex to above tornus ; cilia rufous mixed 

 with some white. Hind wing whitish tinged with rufous, especially 

 on terminal area ; cilia white tinged with rufous at base ; the under- 

 side ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown. 



Rob. Argentina, Tapia, 6000', 1 § type. Exp. 24 millim. 



6040. Tarachidia parvula. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 23.) 



Xanthodes parvula, Wlk. xxxiii. 779 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 303. 

 Fruva gcorgica, Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 232 (1881). 



Head and thorax ochreous yellow tinged with rufous ; palpi white 

 at base, brownish at tips ; antennae brown ; pectus and legs white, 

 the fore tibiae and tarsi brownish : abdomen white, dorsally tinged 

 with rufous. Fore wing ochreous yellow, the inner and terminal 

 areas suffused with rufous, the rufous on terminal area expanding 

 triangularly in discal fold to end of cell ; orbicular a black point ; 

 reniform a minute annulus very indistinctly defined by brown scales; 

 traces of an oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 a dark brown terminal line; cilia dark leaden fuscous. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with red-brown, the cilia brown at base, white at 

 tips ; the underside ochreous white, the costal area tinged with 

 brown. 



Hub. U.S.A., Georgia, 1 S type georgica ; hab. ign., 1 $ type. 

 Ehop. 24 millim. 



6041. Tarachidia tortricina. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 24.) 



Agrophila tortricina, Zell. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxii. p. 461, pi. 2 



f. 5 (1872); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 306. 

 Fruva obsoleta, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 69 (1877) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Aui 



p. 302. 

 Spragueia inorata, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 1S3 (1882). 

 Fruva modesta, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 124 (1884); Smith, Cat. Noct 



N. Am. p. 302. 

 Fruva delcta, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 124 (1884); Smith, Cat. Noct, N. Am 



p. 303. 



Head and thorax ochreous yellow ; palpi white, brownish at tips 

 antennae, fore tibiae, and tarsi brownish ; abdomen white faintlj 



