TARAi 7 .".."; 



6102. Tarache axendra. ( Plate CLXXI. fig. 1 :;. i 



Tarache axendra, Scbaus, J: N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 117 



Acontia bilimeki, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Aro., Het. i. p. rt.), nee 1 



2 . Head and thorax dark olive-brown, the latter suffused with 

 leaden grey; palpi white except at tips; p ad legs white, 



the fore tibiae brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore 

 wing dark olive-brown' suffused with silvery purple especially 

 inner area ; a large wedge-shaped white patch on basal costal area 

 extending; to median nervure ; an oblique quadrate white patch 

 from middle of costa, its lower edge excised by the minute round 

 black orbicular and the small reniform which is defined by black, 

 hoop-shaped and open below; a triangular white postmedial patch 

 from costa ; traces of a dark antemedial line on inner area and of a 

 sinuous medial line ; postmedial line arising from apex of the tri- 

 angular white patch, blackish, minutely dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4 and with more or less developed minutely waved 

 white line beyond it from vein (i to inner margin ; subterminal line 

 slight, white, waved and defined on inner side by slight black 

 streaks from costa to vein -1. then 'forming a diffused white patch ; 

 a terminal series of small black spots except towards tornus; cilia 

 leaden grey with a slight dark line through them. Hind wing 

 greyish suffused with red-brown rather darker towards term en ; 

 cilia brown at base, white at tips ; the underside ochreous white 

 with brown discoidal bar, a postmedial hand excurved beyond the 

 cell and ending at vein 1, some brown suffusion on termen from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Vertex of head and thorax pure white ; fore wing with- 

 out the white patch at tornus, cilia with white patch at middle. 



Huh. Mexico, Mexico City [Eoege), 1 $ , Presidio ( Forrt r), 1 2 , 

 rrero ( //. //. Smith), 2$, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 28 

 3U millim. 



6103. Tarache disconnecta. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 14.) 



Acontia disconnecta, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 212 (1903). 



• $ . Head white with some olive-brown above frons and on 

 vertex; antennae brown ; tegulae pure white; thorax oliv< 

 with some white and silvery scales; abdomen yellowish wh 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen pure white. 

 wing pure silvery white ; an oblique triangular dark olive-brown 

 BUbbasal patch on inner area connected at inner margin with 

 oblique antemedial bar from below the cell; a ti 

 brown patch from lower of cell to inner margin with a 



slight white spot on its outer edge at vein 1 : | iial line 



represented by a blackish point on costa, two obliquely pi 

 black points beyond the cell between veins 6 and I and two small 

 spots on the triangular patch: an olive-brown apical patch with 



