696 NOCTUiDJ];. 



6049. TaracMdia virginalis. (Plate CLXX. fig. 2.) 



Tarctche virginalis, Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 15 (1881) ; Smith, Oat. Xoct. 

 ]S\ Am. p. 300. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the last faintly tinged with 

 brown ; palpi at tips, a bar across frons, and antennae rufous ; fore 

 tibiae and the tarsi rufous slightly ringed with white. Fore wing 

 nilvery white, the terminal half with a faint yellowish tinge ; a 

 fulvous-yellow medial shade ; reniform olive-brown with white 

 annulus, elliptical ; postmedial line a diffused olive-brown and 

 yellow shade, incurved below vein 5 to lower edge of reniform, 

 then approximated to the medial sliade and with some j^ellow 

 beyond it ; a terminal series of slight fuscous points. Hind wing 

 white ; a terminal brown band from apex to vein 2 expanding at 

 apex ; cilia brownish at base towards aj)ex. Underside of fore 

 wing brown, the costa and inner area whitish, slight whitish 

 streaks in interspaces of terminal area ; hind wing wholly white. 



Hal). U.S.A., Texas, Bastrop Co., 1 2 type, Colorado, Denver, 

 1 (S ,1 5 , Arizona. Exp. 26-30 millim. 



6050. Tarachidia binocula. (Plate CLXX. fig. 3.) 



Tarache binocula, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 224 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 jSr. Am. p. 300. 



Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi except at base and 

 antennae brownish ; fore and mid legs brownish, the tarsi brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with grey, the 

 anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Pore wing creamy white ; an olive- 

 yellow medial band with a large semicircular white patch beyond it 

 on costa defined by olive-yellow below touching the small elliptical 

 leaden-grey reniform which is defined by white ; a leaden-grey 

 band beyond these white and olive-yellow markings with the very 

 slight minutely waved white postmedial line on it from vein 6 to 

 inner margin, incurved below vein 4 and closely approximated to the 

 white subterminal line, which is obscurely defined by olive marks 

 on inner side and greyish sufiusion on outer, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, then incurved ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia 

 white with an olive-brown line at base. Hind wing white, the 

 costa towards apex and the termen to vein 2 or the apex only 

 tinged with brown. Underside of fore wing brown with the costa 

 and inner area white ; hind wing white with a brownish mark on 

 costa towards apex. 



Hah. U.S.A., Kansas, Texas, 2 J , 1 $ type, Arizona. Exp. 22- 

 28 millim. 



6051. Tarachidia tennescens. (Plate CLXX. fig. 4.) 



Acontia ienuescens, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. s. p. 53 (1902) ; Djar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 215. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white ; palpi brown towards 

 tips ; frons with brown bars 5 antennae brown ; fore and mid tibiae 



