692 N0CTTTID.E. 



6043. Tarachidia nannodes, n. sp. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 26.) 



2 • Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; fore tibiae and 

 the tarsi brownish ringed witb white. Fore wing ochreous white ; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight brownish bar from costa; 

 antemedial line with small red-brown spot at costa, then indistinct 

 and interrupted ; orbicular a small black spot ; reniform a small 

 oblique elliptical brown spot with ochreous white bar through 

 middle ; a triangular red-brown spot from middle of costa and 

 an obliquely curved line from cell to inner margin with a brown 

 and purplish-grey patch beyond it ; postmedial line red-brown, 

 oblique from below costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and, 

 bent outwards to inner margin, a wedge-shaped yellowish-white 

 mark beyond it from costa and some yellowish white on inner area; 

 terminal area red-brown, the subterminal line slightly defined on 

 inner side by black and purple-grey towards costa, then obsolete ; 

 a terminal series of small black spots slightly defined on inner side 

 by white ; cilia black-brown, with white patches below apex and 

 middle. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ; cilia brown at 

 base, white at tips ; the underside with discoidal point and traces of 

 a diffused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 



Hob. U.S.A., Arizona, Globe (Kunze), 1 § type. Exp. 18 millim. 



6044. Tarachidia libedis. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 27.) 



Acontia libedis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. sxvii. p. 80 (1900) ; Dynr, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 214. 



Head and thorax creamy yellowish white ; antennae brownish ; 

 pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and tarsi brownish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen ochreous white Fore wing creamy ochreous 

 white ; a subbasal grey spot in cell ; antemedial line greyish or 

 ochreous, oblique from costa to median nervure, then inwardly 

 oblique; orbicular a black point ; reniform grey, small, elliptical: 

 medial line grey at costa, olive-yellow in cell, then chocolate-brown, 

 angled outwards in cell, then oblique and slightly sinuous, a grcj 

 patch beyond it on inner area ; postmedial area olive-yellow with v. 

 dark point on costa followed by a creamy-white wedge-shapet 

 patch, the slight postmedial creamy-white patch arising from itf 

 apex, oblique, angled inwards in submedian fold and outward: 

 above inner margin ; subterminal line creamy white, excurvec 

 below vein 7, oblique and minutely dentate at middle and ben' 

 outwards to tornus ; terminal area grey ; a terminal series o 

 black points slightly defined by white on inner side ; cilia red 

 brown at base, grey at tips, with yellow patches below apex and a 

 middle. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged will 

 reddish brown ; cilia white with a slight brown line near base 

 the underside wholly white. 





