724 nocttjid^:. 



palpi at base, pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae and 

 the tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen white, the anal tuft tinged 

 with yellowish. Fore wing white ; a red-brown patch at base 

 with obliquely curved upper edge, leaving some white at base of 

 inner margin with the hyaline fovea above it ; the costal edge 

 brownish ; a broad obliquely curved olive-brown subterminal baud 

 from apex to tornus, met at upper angle of cell by an oblique 

 diffused yellowish bar from costa ; a fine dentate oblique white 

 postmedial line from vein 7 to inner margin with diffused silvery 

 blue marks before it, a curved brownish line before termen from 

 below apex to submedian fold ; a brown terminal line. Hind wiug 

 white, the termen suffused with brown from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside wholly white. 



Bab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 S type. Exp. 32 millim. 



6093. Tarache expolita. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 6.) 



Tarache expolita, Grote, Papilio. ii. p. 131 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 2 

 Acontia embolima, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 306, pi. 28. f. 17 



(1889). 



Head, teguloe, and prothorax in frout white ; palpi at tips, a 

 baud across frons and antennas rufous; thorax red-brown suffused 

 with leaden grey ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and tarsi 

 rufous ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally suffused with 

 rufous. Fore wing with the costal area yellowish white to near 

 apex, its lower edge sinuous, the rest of wing red-brown suffused 

 with silvery purple and with some olive below the costal area, a 

 yellowish white patch on termen from vein 5 to tornus with cuived 

 inner edge ; antemedial line represented by a very faint oblique 

 yellow bar from costa and a slight erect dark line from submedian 

 fold to inner margin ; reniform elliptical, faintly defined by blackish 

 except above and with two oblique yellow striae to it from costa ; 

 a faint oblique medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line very indistinct, dark, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 represented by slight olive-yellow marks on the white patch ; cilia 

 leaden grey on costal half, yellowish white on tornal half. Hind 

 wing white tinged with rufous especially on the veins and terminal 

 area ; cilia yellowish white ; the underside ochreous white. 



Bab. U.S.A., Texas, Pound Mt., Arizona, Prescott (Kunzt'), 2 J, 

 Huachuca Mts., ] d ; Mexico, X. Sonora (Morrison), 1 § tvpe 

 embolima, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 24 millim. 



6094. Tarache lucasi. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 7.) 



Acontia lucasi, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 68 (1900). 



$ . Head and thorax white, the metathorax purple grey ; palpi 

 at tips, frons and antennas reddish brown ; fore tibiae and tarsi 



