742 nocttjiiki:. 



streak in discal fold and patches on costa at middle and towards 

 apex. 



Hah. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), 1 c? , Guerrero, Venta de Zopilotc 

 (//. H. Smith), 2 (5 , 1 $ type and type philomela, Godmau-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 22-24 millim. 



6115. Tarache ardoris. (Plate CLXXI. figs. 29 <$ , 30 $ .) 



Tarache ardoris, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett, iii. p. 34, ff. 551-2 (1827), J; 



Smith, Cat. Nocfc. N. Am. p. 301. 

 Tarachc duenna, Sehaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 118 (1898). 



$ . Head and thorax white, the latter with slight grey marks on 

 dorsum ; palpi at tips, a har across frons and antenna) greyish 

 fuscous ; fore tibiae and the tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen yellowish white with rather diffused dark dorsal hands. 

 Fore wing creamy white ; subbasal line grey, double, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line grey tinged with olive at 

 costa, double, waved ; orbicular a minute tuft of raised black scales. 

 the reniform a slight black striga ; a small olive spot on middle of 

 costa ; terminal area purple-grey mixed with some red-brown and 

 with some olive-green on its inner edge beyond the cell, its inner 

 edge slightly angled inwards at vein 7 and at vein 4 strongly in- 

 curved to below the cell ; postmedial liue with white striga from 

 costa, then formed by slight black marks, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line slight, whitish, defined on inner side by 

 rufous marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved 

 and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black spots with 

 larger marks above and below middle, slightly defined by white on 

 inner side ; cilia purple-grey with some rufous and white at apex 

 and some white at middle. Hind wing yellowish white, the termen 

 suffused with ochreous brown except towards tornus. 



2 . Pore wing purple-grey beyond the antemedial line leaving a 

 large semi-elliptical white patch on costa with some olive suffusion 

 round it, its lower extremity somewhat excised and with a dark 

 point on it at middle of costa. 



Hah. Brazil, Itaparica {Meade-Waldo), 1 $ ,' Sao Paulo (D. 

 Jones), 2 $ , Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wagner), 1 2 ; Paraguay, 

 Sapucay (Foster), 3 $ ; Argentina, Gran Chaco ( Wagner), 1 d" . 

 Exp. 22 millim. Typef $ duenna in U.S. Nat, Mus. 



The locality 'Georgia" is an error. 



6116. Tarache morides. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 31.) 



Acontia morides, Sehaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 239 (1894). 



S . Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi at tips and frons 

 tinged with fuscous ; antennae brown ; metathoracic crest brown 



