732 noctuidji;. 



wing dark olive-brown suffused with silvery purple, the costal 

 area creamy white to near apex, its lower edge sinuous and ex- 

 tending in places to just below cell ; traces of a dark antemedial 

 line, oblique from costa to middle of cell, tben bent inwards and 

 oblique to inner margin ; reniform a small round greyish spot 

 denned by white and sometimes tinged with yellow ; traces of a 

 dark medial line from cell to inner margin, slightly angled out- 

 wards at vein 1 ; postmedial line represented by two oblique yellow 

 striae from costa on the white area, then indistinct, dark, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 and slightly angled outwards at vein 1 ; 

 terminal area red on apical half, white on inner half, the subter- 

 minal line slight and white on the red area, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, then incurved and defined by grey on inner side on 

 the white area ; a terminal series of small black spots slightly 

 defined by white on inner side ; cilia purple-grey, intersected with 

 white below apex. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with red- 

 brown from apex to vein 2 ; cilia white tinged with red-brown at 

 base from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white with faint red- 

 brown marks from costa beyond middle and at apex. 



Hah. Mexico, Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith), 1 <$ , Orizaba (Godman), 

 1 c? , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 28 millim. 



*6101. Tarache mizteca. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 12.) 



Tarache mizteca, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Son. vi. p. 118 (1898). 



2 . Head and thorax blackish grey with a silvery leaden tinge ; 

 teguloe white at base; palpi white below; pectus and legs white, 

 the tibise and tarsi with some brown ; abdomen white dorsally 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing fuscous black suffused with silvery 

 grey ; a white patch on basal costal area extending to median 

 nervure, another on middle of costa, its extremities produced to 

 points on costa, its lower edge waved, a conical patch on postmedial 

 part of costa, the terminal area white from middle to tornus ; ante- 

 medial line black, from the costal patch to inner margin above 

 which it is excurved ; orbicular absent, the reniform with a black 

 point on inner edge and another on outer ; postmedial line black, 

 from the costal patch to inner margin, minutely dentate, obliquely 

 curved to submedian fold, then erect ; subterminal line represented 

 by a white striga from costa, a minute dentate black mark below 

 vein 7 and oblique scries of minute fuscous spots on the white 

 patch ; a terminal series of black points except towards tornus ; 

 cilia fuscous with dark line through them and white patch below 

 middle. Hind wing yellowish white, the termen tinged with 

 brown. 



This is perhaps the female of T. bilimeci. 



Hah. Mexico, Oaxaca {Schaus), type t in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



