2ABACOIDIA. 



tinned with brown on dorsum. Fore wine ochl the 



orbicular a black point, the reniform a minate blackish annul 

 postmedial line represented by a few .scales beyond the cell and an 

 oblique brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin, with 

 triangular patch of brown suffusion beyond it ; s b rminal - 

 slight black points; cilia brown. Hind wing whitish ting 

 reddish brown, the cilia brown at base, white at tips; the and 

 side uniform yellowish white. 



IAb. 1. obsoleta. Fore wing with the markings almost obsoli 

 Ab. 2. modesta. Head, thorax, and fore wing grey-brown si 

 suffused with yellowish-white scales. 



Ab. 3. deleta. Fore wing dark brown suffused with olive-yell 

 scales leaving the termen and cilia dark, almost without marking 



Hab. t\x ada, Hudson's Bay, Alberta, Calgary ; C.S. V.. LUin -. 

 1 S type obsoleta, Iowa, Kansas, Texas, 2 ". Colorado, Boulder 

 (Cod-erJl). 2 c {, Xevada, Virginia City, California Lake Co.(WaU- 

 ingham), 5^,5$. Exp. 22-24 millim. 



6042. Tarachidia erastrioides. (Plate C'LXIX. fig. 25.) 



Acontia erastrioides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 218 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 299. 



Head blackish brown, the palpi whitish at base; thorax whil ; 

 fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen white 

 dorsally slightly tinged with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. 1 

 wing chalky white; subbasal line pale brown, from costa to ->; : 

 fold ; antemedial line pale brown, slightly incurved at subme 

 fold ; orbicular a black point ; the reniform brown defined by a 

 black scales, small, elliptical; a small brown Bpot on middh 

 costa and an oblique sinuous line from cell to inner margin ; 

 outer part of medial area and the postmedial an pt toward* 



costa olive-brown shading to purple-grey suffused with bl 

 postmedial line pale brown and oblique from below d vein • 



then black, incurved and minutely wared below vein4 : Bubtenninal 

 line white defined on inner side by pale brown toward and on 



outer side by pale brown except towards i 

 vein 7 and at middle, bent outwards to tornus; a terminal 

 of black points; cilia white tinged with I 

 tornus. Hind wing white, the terminal half Buffused with broi 

 cilia white with a slight brown line near base; the undej 

 ochreous white. 



Hab. Canada; U.S.A., south to Virginia and « 

 Mississippi, Massachusetts (Packard), 1 '. 1 



I), I ,-, 2 $. Evan.- ( enter (G 6 , DluiOia, I 



19." Exp. 20-22 millim. 



Larva. Coquillett, Papilio, i. y. - 



Deep green ; a white Btigmatal Btripe ; b 

 black and white lines or 12 white lines; hi 

 black and white. Food-plant : Ambrosia art 



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