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defined on inner side by white; cilia grey with whitish pal 

 below apex and at middle. Hind \\ i i - u white, the costal 

 terminal areas tinged with brown, in female more uniformly tii 

 with brown; cilia white tinged with brown at base. Ondereidi 

 fore wing white with some bruwu on costa and inner area; hind 

 wing white. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without any grey on terminal ai apt 



just beyond the medial olive baud from cell to inner margin ; 

 reniform filled in with white. 



Hob. Canada; U.8. A., Massachusetts (Packard), 3 & , Beverley 

 (Burg), 2o*, 1 2, New York (Schlegel, Doubleday, Orote), I 

 1 2, G a rrison (Cockerell), 3 $, Illinois, 1 <J>, Florida. St. John's 

 Bluff (Doubleday), 2 6 type debilis, Enterprise, 1 $, Kai 



[Texas, Dallas (Bull), 2 d,2 $ , ^an Antonio, 1 $>, Washing 

 ( Walsingham), '6 3 , Colorado, Boulder (CocJcerell), 2 ,*. California. 

 Mendocino Co. ( Walsingham), 2 rf , 2 $ , Colusa Co. ( WalsingJia 



|6j, 1 $. New Mexico, Roswell (Cockerett), 1 ". Arizona, 

 Phoenix (Kunzi), 1 $ ; Mexico, N. Sonora (Morrison), 1 $, 

 Presidio (Jbrrer), 1 $, Godman-Salvin Coll. /Sarp. 22—26 millim. 

 Larva. Coquillett, Papilio, iii. p. 84. 



Green with sixteen or eighteen waved black and white lines 

 or with twelve white lines; a white stigmata! Btripe; ventral 

 surface green with seven or eight white lines; head vertically 

 striped with alternating white aud green lines. Food-plant : 

 Ambrosia artemisicefolia. 7. 



*G048. Tarachidia neomexicana. (Plate CI, XX. fig. 1.) 



Acontia neomexicana, Smith, Trans. Am. Enfc Soc. xxvii. p. 81 i. 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 21">. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen white. Fore wing 

 white; traces of a yellow antemedial line; orbicular 

 point; reniform grey with pale centre, round, medial b1 

 yellow, oblique from costa to median nervure. then inwardly 

 oblique and forming the inner edge of an oblii 

 from apex to inner margin beyond middle, expanding on i 

 margin to the subterminal line; postmedial line repi I by 



a yellow patch beyond the reniform, fine, viola© 

 on the grey shade; postmedial area yellowish, on inner area tin 

 with violaceous ; subterminal line broad, white, irregular ; t' 

 area grey ; a terminal series of black points. II ad • ; « ; 

 narrow fuscous terminal band ; the underside white with tie 

 area yellow. 



Eab. U.S.A.. Texas (Belfragt ). Eup. 20 millim. 

 is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from fcj | 

 Mus. 



