TARACHIDIA. 695 



defined on inner side by white ; cilia grey with whitish patches 

 below apex and at middle. Hind wing white, the costal and 

 terminal areas tinged with brown, in female more uniformly tinged 

 with brown; cilia white tinged with brown at base. Underside of 

 fore wing white with some brown on costa and inner area ; hind 

 wing white. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without any grey on terminal area except 

 just beyond the medial olive band from cell to inner margin ; 

 reniform filled in with white. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Massachusetts {Packard), 3 S , Beverley 

 (Burg), 2 (5* , 1 $, New York {Sclilegel, Douhleday, Grote), 4 c? , 

 1 $, Garrison (CocJcereU), 3 $ , Illinois, 1 5, Florida, St. John's 

 Bluff {Douhleday), 2 6 type dehilis, Enterprise, 1 5 , Kansas, 

 Texas, Dallas {Boll), 2 d , 2 5 , San Antonio, 1 $ , Washington 

 (Walsingham), 3 c? , Colorado, Boulder {Oockerell), 2 c? , California, 

 Mendocino Co. ( Walsingham), 2^,2$, Colusa Co. (Walsingham), 

 Q d ■, 1 $' New Mexico, Roswell (Cockerell), 1 S, Arizona, 

 Phoenix (Kunze), 1 $ ; Mexico, N. Sonora (Morrison), 1 $, 

 Presidio (Forrer), 1 5 ? Godman-Salvin Coll. Ewj). 22-26 millim. 



Larva. Coquillett, Papilio, iii. p. 84. 



Green with sixteen or eighteen waved black and white lines 

 or with twelve white lines ; a white stigmatal stripe ; ventral 

 surface green with seven or eight white lines ; head vertically 

 striped with alternating white aud green lines. Food-plant : 

 Amhrosia artemisice folia. 7. 



*6048. Tarachidia neomexicana. (Plate CLXX. fig. 1.) 



Acontia neomexicana, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 81 (1900) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 215. 



S. Head, thorax, and abdomen white. Fore wing creamy 

 white; traces of a yellow antemedial line; orbicular a black 

 point ; reniform grey with pale centre, round, medial shade 

 yellow, oblique from costa to median nervure, then inwardly 

 oblique and forming the inner edge of an oblique grey shade 

 from apex to inner margin beyond middle, expanding on inner 

 margin to the siabterminal line ; postmedial line represented by 

 a yellow patch beyond the reniform, fine, violaceous and irregular 

 on the grey shade ; postmedial area yellowish, on inner area tinged 

 with violaceous ; subterminal line broad, white, irregular ; terminal 

 area grey ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white with 

 narrow fuscous terminal band ; the underside white with the costal 

 area yellow. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas (Belfrage). Eicp. 20 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



