TALARA. 697 



*812c. Talara brunnescens. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 35.) 



Odozana brunnescens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 197 (1913). 



cS . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown, the head with a silvery 

 gloss ; antennae blackish. Fore wing reddish brown with a slight 

 irroration of whitish scales in, beyond, and below end of cell. Hind 

 wing reddish brown. 



Hub. Peru, Carabaya, R. Huacamayo (Ockenden), type t 6 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 18 millim. 



*813tf. Talara ignibasis. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 30.) 



Talara ignibasis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 201 (1913). 



d ■ Head and thorax scarlet ; antenna? black except towards 

 base ; pectus and legs black-brown, the fore coxae and femora 

 scarlet and the 1st joint of tarsi yellow ; abdomen black-brown, the 

 dorsum scarlet towards base, the anal tuft with ochreous mixed. 

 Pore wing scarlet, the area from discal fold to inner margin and 

 from before middle to termen black with a band of leaden grey 

 suffusion on termen, its inner extremity expanding into a rounded 

 patch extending almost to costa, suffused with brilliant blue and 

 with some white scales in cell ; an elongate black patch on post- 

 medial part of eosta ; cilia white. Hind wing fuscous brown with 

 the base scarlet. Underside fuscous black suffused with silvery 

 blue except the base of both wings and a wedge-shaped patch from 

 apex of fore wing which are scarlet. 



Sab. Peru, Carabaya, II. Huacamayo (Ockenden), type f J 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 18 millim. 



*813 b. Talara cara. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 1.) 



Talara cara, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 365 (1911). 



J . Head and thorax pale orange-scarlet ; palpi black except at 

 base and tips; antennae black; pectus and legs brown, the tarsi 

 ochreous at base ; abdomen black-brown with some pale scarlet at 

 base. Fore wing pale orange-scarlet ; the terminal area black- 

 brown, broadly at costa and narrowing to tornus, its inner nine 

 rather diffused and irregular ; cilia white at tips on inner half. 

 Hind wing black-brown, the basal area pale orange-scarlet. 

 Underside of fore wing with the costa and terminal half black- 

 brown, the basal half orange-scarlet with oblique outer edge ; hind 

 wing pale orange-scarlet to middle. 



JIab. Costa Riga, Sixola It. (Schaus), type t 3 in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 18 millim. 



814 a. Talara miniata. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 2.) 

 Talara miniata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 201 (1913). 



Head and thorax scarlet; antenna 1 black except towards base ; 



pectus and legs fuscous black, the pectus in front, fore coxa 1 and 



