TARACHE. 725 



red-brown ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing red-brown suffused with silvery purple, the 

 costal area white to near apex, extending at base to below the cell, 

 its lower edge indented at middle of cell and angled just before the 

 reniform ; faint traces of brown antemedial and medial lines 

 on the dark area ; reniform small, slightly defined by black at 

 sides ; postmedial line faint, brown, minutely waved, arising from 

 the white area and strongly incurved below vein 6 ; subterminal 

 line white, almo-^t obsolete and minutely waved towards costa, 

 excurved at middle and extending to termen, then incurved and 

 bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 brown mixed with purple-grey and with white patch below middle. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia 

 white tinged with brown at apex ; the underside white with slight 

 brown mark at apex. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Cape San Lucas, Arizona, Tucson (Oslar), 

 1 d . Exp. 26 millim, 



6095. Tarache tetragona. 



Acontia tetragona, Wlk. xii. 786 (1857) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 

 i. p. 305 (part.). 



Acontia redita, Feld. Eels. Not. pi. 108. f. 30 (1874) ; Druee, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. i. p. 306 (part.). 



Acontia quadriplaga, Smitb, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 72 (1900), 2- 



Acontia alessandra, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xsix. p. 212 (1903), J. 



cJ . Head and thorax pure white ; palpi at tips, a band across 

 frons, and the antennae brown ; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally suffused with ochreous. 

 Fore wing pure white ; subbasal line represented by a dark point 

 on costa, the antemedial line by a bar from costa ; orbicular some- 

 times represented by a minute black point ; reniform brown 



Fig. 208. — Tarache tetragona, S- 1- 



defined by black, placed on the inner edge of the dark terminal 

 area which is olive-brown shading to purplish grey towards termen, 

 the inner edge represented by an oblique bar from costa separated 

 by a white streak from the reniform , then incurved to inner margin ; 

 a quadrate white postmedial patch on costa, the minutely waved 

 blackish postmedial line arising from it, excurved to vein 4, tben 

 incurved ; subterminal line slight, whitish, defined on inner side by 



