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NOCTUIDJE. 



6149. Tar ache cratina. 



Acontia cratina, Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. i. p. 309, pi. 28. f. 26 (1889). 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purplish grey ; 

 pectus reddish ochreous ; legs chocolate-brown irrorated Avith 

 whitish, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen yellow-brown, the 

 ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish 

 grey irrorated with red-brown; an oblique blackish antemedial 

 line from costa to vein 1, slightly bent inwards to costa ; orbicular 

 a black point ; a very strongly incurved white line from the post- 

 medial line below costa to inner margin with a large comet-shaped 

 chocolate-brown patch beyond it ; the postmedial line slight, white 

 and oblique from costa to vein 6, then blackish and dentate to 

 vein 4, then incurved and whitish, forming the outer edge of the 

 comet-mark ; subterminal line absent ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing red-brown ; the cilia yellowish white at tips ; 

 the underside brownish ochreous, the apical area irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. Mkxico, Vera Cruz, Atoyac (H. H. Smith), 1 § type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 34 millim. 



6150. Tarache phrygionis, n. sp. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 30.) 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish white ; 

 pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown, the tarsi slightly ringed 

 with white ; abdomen rufous, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 brownish grey. Pore wing grey-white finely irrorated with brown, 

 the basal half of costal area darker, the terminal area cupreous 

 red becoming greyish at apex, its inner edge very strongly in- 

 curved from apex to inner margin near t.ornus ; a faint double 

 brown antemedial line incurved from below costa to median nervure, 

 then excurved ; an oblique white bar on the cupreous red area 

 from submedian fold to inner margin just before tornus. Hind 

 wing whitish slightly tinged with brown, the termen tinged with 

 cupreous red; the underside ochreous whitish. 



Hah. Argentina, 1 rf type, La liioja (Griacomelli), 1 c?. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell. 



A. Fore wing with oblique white band from costa towards 

 apex to basal part of inner margin. 



a. Pore wing without oblique white bar from costa before 



middle to the oblique band jali&c 



b. Fore wing with oblique white bar from costa before 



middle to the oblique band. 

 a 1 . B'ore wing with dentate white subterminal line ... chea. 

 b\ Fore wing with terminal series ol grey spots defined 



by white nilidida. 



