694 NOCTUlDJi!. 



the antemedial line by double blacldsh bars from costa ; orbicular 

 a minute black point ; the reniform small, round, with greyish 

 centre defined by black ; an oblique dark mark from middle of 

 costa and a sinuous black line from cell to inner margin with 

 a brown band beyond it ; postmedial line represented by a dark 

 point on costa and an indistinct line from below costa, obliquely 

 escurved to lower angle of cell, then sinuous to inner margin ; 

 postmedial area purple-grey with, a white patch on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line slight, white with blackish patches before it definea 

 on inner side by traces of a white line, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; terminal area brown : a 

 terminal series of black points defined on inner side by white ; 

 cilia brown with white patch above tornus and some wliite at tips 

 below apes. Hind wing semihyaline white, the termen suflfused 

 with brown except towards tornus ; the underside white with 

 faint brown, marks on costa beyond middle and at apes. 



5 . Pore wing with nearly erect black antemedial line from cell 

 to inner margin with purple-grey band beyond it before the medial 

 band, the orbicular a small spot ; hind wing suffused with brown 

 especially towards termen. 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 (5' , 1 5 , San Antonio, 1 5, Arizona, 

 Prescott (Oslar), 3 d' , 1 $ ; Mexico, N. Sonora (Morrison), 1 $ 

 type phecolisca, Guerrero {H. H. Smith), 1 c? , 1 S , Durango 

 {Becker), 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Colombia, Sta. Marta 

 {Bouchard), 1 J , 2 $ . Exp. 18-20 millim. 



6047. Tarachidia candefacta. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 32.) 



Phytomefra mivuta, Haw. Brit. Lep. p. 265 (1809), nee Hiibn. ; Wood, 



Ind. Ent. p. 74, pi. 17. f. 423. 

 Tarache candefacta, Hiibn. Ziitr. iii. p. 39, ff. 587-8 (1827) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 299. 

 Micra hawcyrthava^, Westw. Brit. Moths, i. p. 243, pi. 53. f. 20 (1851) ; 



Humphreys, Brit. Moths, p. 73, pi. 29. f. 11. 

 Acontia. debilis, Wlk. xii. 786 (1867) ; Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 305. 



Head and thorax pure white ; palpi at tips, frons, and antennae 

 brownish ; fore tibite and the tarsi brownish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white dorsally tinged with grey. Pore wing white ; the 

 costal edge tinged with fuscous ; a subbasal fuscous point in cell ; 

 a more or less distinct oblique antemedial line or band from fell to 

 inner margin ; orbicular represented by a slight blackish point ; an 

 olive-brown medial band, angled outwards and yellowish in cell, 

 then oblique ; a large white patch on postmedial costal area defined 

 by olive below and touching the renitorm, which is grey defined by 

 white, small, elliptical ; a dark postmedial point on costa 5 terminal 

 area leaden grey; subterminal line white defined on inner side by 

 olive, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved and bent 

 outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of small black spots slightly 



