TARACHE. 



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red-brown ringed witb white; abdomen white dorsally tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing red-brown suffused with silvery purple, the 

 d area white to near apex, extending at base to below the cell, 

 its lower edge indented at middle of cell and angled just before the 

 reniform ; faint traces of brown antemedial and medial lines 

 on the dark area ; reniform small, slightly defined by black at 

 Bides ; postmedial line faint, brown, minutely waved, arising from 

 the white area and strongly incurved below vein (5 ; subterminal 

 line white, almost obsolete and minutely waved towards costa, 

 excurved at middle and extending to termen, then incurved and 

 bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 brown mixed with purple-grey and with white patch below middle. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia 

 white tinged with brown at apex ; the underside white with slight 

 brown mark at apex. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Cape San Lucas, Arizona, Tucson (Oslar), 

 1 S . Exp. 26 millim. 



6095. Tarache tetragona. 



Het. 



Acontia tetragona, Wlk. xii. 786 (1857); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Atn 



i. p. 305 (part.). 



Acontia redita, l\l 1. "Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 30 (1874) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.- 

 Ani., Het. i. p. 306 (part.). 

 tiia quadriplaga, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 72 (1900), $. 

 n/essandra, Smith, Trans. Am. Eiit. Soc. xxix. p. 212 (1903), <3 . 



3 . Head and thorax pure white ; palpi at tips, a band across 

 frons, and the antennae brown; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally suffused with ochreous. 

 Fore wing pure white; subbasal line represented by a dark point 

 on costa, the antemedial line by a bar from costa ; orbicular some- 

 times represented by a minute black point ; reniform brown 



Fig. 208. — Tarache tetragona, 3 . 



defined by black, placed on the inner edge of the dark terminal 

 area which is olive-brown shading to purplish grej towards termen, 

 the inner edge represented by an oblique bar from i 

 by a white streak from the reniform, then incurved to inner margin; 

 a quadrate white postmedial patch on costa, the minutely waved 

 blackish postmedial line arising from it. excurved to vein 4. men 

 incurred; subterminal line slight, whitish, defined on inner side by 



