TARACHE. 773 



6162. Tarache cretata. (Plate CLXXIII. 



Tarache ere'ata, Grote and Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii p 1-1 pi ii. 

 f. 78 (18i">8) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 300. 



Acontia neocula, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x.wii. p 75 (1900): I 

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



Head and thorax white; palpi except at tips and a 

 with brown; fore tibia? and the tarsi tinged with brown : al 

 white slightly tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing silvery 

 white; a slight greyish spot on costa above end of cell nsually 

 present ; terminal area olive-brown with a cupreous gloss, its inner 

 edge erect from costa to vein 6, then strongly incurved; a slight 

 incurved dentate while postmediaJ line from vein :j to to 

 margin; a fine white subterminal line, excur\< d below vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins -1, 3, then incurved; a fine white lino just before 

 termen ; cilia white with some brown at apex. Hind wing white 

 with some brown suffusion at apex, the termen tinged with brown 

 to vein 2 ; the underside wholly white. 



Bab. U.S.A., Texas, 3 tf, 1 $, Colorado, Utah, Bluff, New 

 Mexico, Hot Springs, 1 J, Arizona, Gila Co. Globe (Kunze), 1 <3 ■ 

 Exp. 24-26 millim. 



*6163. Tarache behri. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 9.) 

 Acontia behrii, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 76 (1900). 



2. Head, thorax, and abdomen white; palpi brown at tips; an- 

 tenna? brown ; fore tibia? and the tarsi brown ringed with white. 

 Fore wing creamy white; antemedial line double, indistinct except 

 at cost a, waved, oblique; small medial and postmedial brown - 



i ; the terminal area olive-brown leaving some creamy whiti 

 middle of termen, it- inner edge angled inwards at vein (i and below 

 vein I incurved to middle of inner margin; postmedial lit i 

 and oblique from the costal spot to vein <>, ; rk, incurved at 



al fold, angled outwards at veins 4,3, then in tble, 



a line \\ bite line beyond it on the dark area ; sul terminal line creamy 

 white, excurved below vein <> and at middle, then incurved, the 



ond it dark excepi al middle; a terminal series of black points 

 andstrise; cilia creamy white, brown at a]. . rnus. Kind 



wing white faintly tinged with brown, tl linal area suffu 



with eupreous brown ; cilia white tinged with brown at apex : the 

 underside creamy white, traces of a curved brownish postmedial 

 line from costa to discal fold, the termen tinged with brown from 

 apex to vein 2. 



IUi'k U.S.A., California, A.rizona(P 11. J. B.Smith 



millim. 



