TARACHE. 751 



inner side by white ; cilia brown -with white patches below apex 

 and at middle. Jliiul wing yellow, the terminal half suffused with 

 reddish brown ; a brown discoidal poinl ; cilia brown al b 

 whitish at tips ; the underside with brown discoidal spot and the 

 termen tinged with brown. 



2 . Fore wing with the antemedial line distinct except at inner 

 margin, oblique below the cell. 



Bab. N. Australia, Alexandria (Stalker), 3 d , 1 2 ; 'in i 

 i.wn, Brisbane (Turner), 2 d ; N.S.Wales, Broken Hill | 

 1 d, Sydney (de la Garde), 2 d • Exp. 18-20 millim. 



6127- Tarache arida. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 9.) 



Acontia arida, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 73 (1000) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 1>14. 



Head and thorax -white; palpi except at base, antennae and 

 athorax greyish; legs greyish, the tarsi slightly ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface white. Tore wing 

 white, the medial area except towards costa and inner margin 

 tinged with olive-yellow ; some grey in base of cell and above inner 

 margin ; a grey antemedial spot on costa and a diffused yellowish 

 line, incurved below the cell and not reaching inner margin ; 

 orbicular absent ; the outer half of medial area and the postmedial 

 area grey, its inner edge with some olive suffusion, angled outwards 

 in cell, then oblique; reniform very faintly defined, grey, small, 

 elliptical ; a quadrate white postmedial patch on costa an 

 inwards below costa and sometimes completely separating the . 

 patch on middle of costa from the rest of the grey area, the olive 

 postmedial line arising below the white patcb towards which it is 

 interrupted and tends to form streaks, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4, Borne blue-white irroration beyond it ; Bubterminal line 

 yellowish white defined on inner side by red-brown marks and - 

 faintly by brownish on outer, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, 

 then bent inwards and oblique to tornus ; a red-brown | 

 irrorated with blue-white at apex ; cilia white tinged with yellow 

 at tips and with grey-brown towards apex and 



dark line through them. Hind wing white tinged with reddish 

 brown especially towards termen, in female uniform I with 



fuscous brown ; cilia brown at base, white al tips. 



Bab. U.S.A., S. Arizona (Poling), 1 $, Phoenix 2 6. 



p. L'4 millim. 



6128. Tarache elaeoa, n. sp. (Plate CLXXII. 



d . Head and thorax whitish SU 

 and lower pair of frons white ; antenna? brown; 



white, the lore tilde and the tarsi brown i. white; 



