CONACONTIA, — TEICHOTARACHE. 705 



is somewhat dentate, and with a black mark before it below vein 7, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved and oblique to 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black points except towards tornus, 

 slightly defined on inner side by white ; cilia leaden grey and brown 

 intersected with white below apex and with some white at base at 

 middle. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, rather darker 

 towards termen ; cilia white with a brown line at base, the under- 

 side uniform creamy white. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary {Wolley-Dod), 3 $; U.S.A., 

 S. Dakota, Pierre, Texas, Bosque Co. (Bel/rage), 1 $ type, Colorado 

 (CocJcerell), 2 J , Durango {Oslar), 2 S , Denver (Oslar), 2 d" , 2 $ , 

 Glenwood Springs, Ft. Collins, California, New Mexico, Las Vegas 

 (CocJcerell), 1 c? , Roswell (Oocherell), 2 $ , Sta. Fe (CocJcerell), 1 ? . 

 Hwp. 26-30 millim. 



Genus TEICHOTARACHE. „ 



Type. 

 Trichotarache, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 48 (1875) assimilis. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending about the length of 

 head and clothed with long hair ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous 

 plate below it ; ej-es small, elliptical ; antenn£e of male somewhat laminate and 

 almost simple; thorax clothed with rough hair and scales mixed, theprothorax 

 without crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest ; tibiae moderately fringed 

 with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 stalked; 5 nearly fully developed 

 from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell to near middle. 



6068. Trichotarache assimilis. 



Trichotarache assimilis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 48 (1875) ; Smith, Oat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 298. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with a few greyish 

 scales, the tibiae and tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore wing black- 

 brown, the terminal area grey-white ; a slight grey streak on base 



Fig. 200. — Trichotarache assimilis, (^ . \ 



of vein 1 ; antemedial line double, greyish, hardly traceable except 

 at inner margin, oblique, waved ; an irregular oblique grey-white 

 patch from middle of costa with the black orbicular point on it and 

 the faintly defined elliptical reniform on its outer edge ; postmedial 

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