TARACniDIA. 



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cupreous brown, the cilia pale with a brown line near base. Under- 

 side of fore wing with the costal area j^ellow towards apex, the 

 inner area white ; hind wing white with slight discoidal spot, 

 indistinct postmedial line strongl}' excurved beyond the cell, then 

 obsolete, and some brown on terraen. 



Hah. Venezuela (ISchreider), 1 ? , Palma Sola, 1 5 , Area, type f 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Ex2). 18 millim. 



6038. Tarachidia viridans. (Plate CLXIX. figs. 20 c? , 21 $ .) 



Tarache viridans, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 160 (1904.) 



S . Head and thorax white with an olive tinge ; palpi at tips 

 and antennae brown ; patagia with dark brown streak on outer 

 edge ; pectus and legs whitish, the tibiae and tarsi tinged with 

 brown ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with rufous. Jj'ore wing 

 whitish tinged with olive-green especially on terminal area ; a 

 diffused oblique olive-green antemedial line slightly bent inwards 

 to costa ; orbicular a dark point, the reniform a small round 

 blackish spot ; an incurved blackish line defined by white above 

 and below from just below angle of cell to inner margin, with a 

 lunulate olive-green patch on its outer edge; a small wedge-shaped 

 postmedial Avhite patch on eosta, the slight whitish postmedial line 

 arising from its apex, incurved below vein 4 and forming the outer 

 edge of the green patch ; subterminal line represented by a slight 

 whitish striga from costa with small reddish spot before it ; a 

 terminal series of slight dark points except towards tornus ; cilia 

 pale. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area tinged with brown. 

 Underside of fore wing with the costal area red on terminal half 

 with some yellowish marks oti costa ; hind wing white with slight 

 brown discoidal point and postmedial bar between veins 6 and 4. 



$ . Head and thorax bright rufous, fore wing suffused with 

 rufous with some greyish on inner medial area and towards tornus, 

 the antemedial line and postmedial patch dark brown ; hind wing 

 suffused with red-brown. 



Hah. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 2 c? , Organ Mts., Tijuca {Wagner), 

 1 S , 1- 2 , Sao Paulo {D. Jones), 2 c? , 3 $ ; Paragtjat, Sapucay 

 {Foster), 14 cJ , 16 $; Argentina, Goya {Perrins), 2 c? , 13 $, 

 Gran Chaco, Florenzia {Wagner), 5 c? , 5 $ , Tucuman, 1 5*, Los 

 Vasquez {Dinelhj), 1 $ . Exp. 18-20 millim. Type f in U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. 



6039. Tarachidia albisecta, n. sp. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 22.) 



$ . Head and thorax pale rufous, the tegulae white with a few 



rufous scales ; pectus and legs whitish, the tibiae and tarsi tinged 



with brown ; abdomen rufous, the ventral surface white. Fore 



wing with the basal half whitish tinged with rufous and irrorated 



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