'60 NOCTU1DJ5. 



6141. Tarache semiatra. (Plate CLXXII. Qg. 25.) 



Acontia semiatra, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 52(1902); Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 215. 



5 . Head, thorax, and ahdomen white tinged with ochreous ; 

 palpi except at hase and in front brown ; fore tibiae and the tarsi 

 brown ringed with white; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen 

 pure white. Fore wing with the basal half white tinged with 

 ochreous ; a subbasal black point on costa ; the terminal half 

 blackish tinged with grey and irrorated with white ; reniform with 

 very indistinct white annulus, narrowing above and with blackish 

 spot in its lower part ; postmedial line dark defined on outer side 

 by ochreous white, on inner area forming a large patch extending 

 to tornus, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by diffused white 

 scales, excurved below vein 7, incurved at discal fold, then excurved 

 to near termen ; cilia with a series of minute white points at base, 

 the tips yellowish mixed with brown. Hind wing ochreous white 

 suffused with brown ; cilia white, brownish at base ; the underside 

 white tinned with brown. 



Hub. U.S.A., Arizona, Yuma Co., 1 5 co-type, Quartzsite. Exp. 

 24 millim. ■ 



6142. Tarache flavonigra. 



Simla flavonigra, Swinh. P.Z. S. 1884, p. 522, pi. 47. f. 15; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Lid. ii. p. 316. 



Head and tegulae fuscous black mixed with some grey ; palpi 

 ochreous at base ; thorax white tinged with ochreous brown : tore 

 and mid tibiae and tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous white with segmental brownish bands. Fore wing with 

 the basal area ochreous white with a fuscous patch on base of costa 

 and bounded by the black antemedial line which is slightly ex- 

 curved at median nervure ; the rest of wing fuscous black glossed 

 with grey; orbicular an ochreous white point slightly defined by 

 black ; reniform ochreous white, its centre slightly defined by 

 black, lunulate ; postmedial line with ochreous spot at costa, then 

 slight, black defined on outer side by ochreous scales, bent outwards 



ow costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; a terminal series of black points 

 defined on inner side by ochreous. Hind wing white tinged with 

 oehreous especially towards termen ; cilia white ; the underside 

 with the costal area tinged with brown. 



Hob. Sind, Karachi {Swinhoe), 1 J, 3 $ type ; Madras, Gooty 

 (Campbell), 1 $. Exp. 1 8-22 millim. 



