

CONACONTIA. — TEICHOTARACHE. 705 



is somewhat dentate, and with a black mark before it below vein 7, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved and oblique to 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black points except towards tornua, 

 slightly denned on inner side by white ; cilia leaden grey and brown 

 intersected with white below apex and with some white at base at 

 middle. Hind win? whitish suffused with brown, rather darker 

 towards termen ; cilia white with a brown line at base, the under- 

 side uniform creamy white. 



Hub. Canada, Alberta. Calgary (Wolley-Dod) , 3 $; U.S.A., 



S. Dakota, Pierre, Texas, Bosque Co. (Belfrar/e), 1 $ type, Colorado 



[(Cockerell), 2 3 , Durango (Oslar), 2 <$ , Denver (OsUr), 2 J , 2 $ , 



, Glenwood Springs, Ft. Collins, California, New Mexico, Las Vegas 



(Cockerell), 1 <$ , Roswell (Cockerell), 2 $ , Sta. Fe (Cockerel!), 1 $ . 



Exp. 26-30 millim. 



Genus TRICHOTARACHE. 



Type. 



Trichotarache, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 48 (187o) assimilis. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending about the length of 

 head and clothed with long hair ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous 

 plate below it ; eyes small, elliptical ; antennae of male somewhat laminate and 

 almost simple; thorax clothed with rough hair and scales mixed, theprothorax 

 without crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest ; tibiae moderately fringed 

 with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 stalked; 5 nearly fully developed 

 from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell to near middle. 



606S. Trichotarache assimilis. 



Trichotarache assimilis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 48 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 298. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with a few greyish 

 scales, the tibiae and tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore wing black- 

 brown, the terminal area grey-white ; a slight grey streak on base 



Fig. 200.— Truhotarache assimilis, tf . \ 



of vein 1 ; antemedial line double, greyish, hardly traceable except 

 at inner margin, oblique, waved ; an irregular oblique grey-white 

 patch from middle of costa with the black orbicular point on it and 

 tin 1 faintly defined elliptical reniform on its outer edj -i medial 



TOL. X. 2 7. 



