TAEACHE. 733 



6102. Tarache axendra. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 13.) 



Tarache axendra, Scbaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 117 (1898). 



Acontia bilimeki, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 306 (part.), nee Feld. 



§ . Head and thorax dark olive-brown, the latter suffused with 

 leaden grey ; palpi white except at tips ; pectus and legs white, 

 the fore tibiae brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white. Pore 

 wing dark olive-brown suffused with silvery purple especially on 

 inner area ; a large wedge-shaped white patch on basal costal area 

 extending to median nervure ; an oblique quadrate white patch 

 from middle of costa, its lower edge excised by the minute round 

 black orbicular and the small reniform which is defined by black, 

 hoop-sbaped and open below; a triangular white postmedial patch 

 from costa ; traces of a dark antemedial line on inner area and of a 

 sinuous medial line ; postmedial line arising from apex of the tri- 

 angular white patch, blackish, minutely dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4 and with more or less developed minutely waved 

 white line beyond it from vein 6 to inner margin ; subterminal line 

 slight, white, waved and defined on inner side by slight black 

 streaks from costa to vein 4, then forming a diffused white patch ; 

 a terminal series of small black spots except towards tornus ; cilia 

 leaden grey with a slight dark line through them. Hind wing 

 greyish suffused with red-brown rather darker towards termen ;, 

 cilia brown at base, white at tips: the underside ochreous white 

 with brown discoidal bar, a postmedial band excurved beyond the 

 cell and ending at vein 1, some brown suffusion on termen from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Vertex of head and thorax pure white ; fore wing with- 

 out the white patch at tornus, cilia with white patch at middle. 



Hah. Mexico, Mexico City (Hoege), 1 $ , Presidio (Forrer), 1 2 , 

 Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 2 $, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 28- 

 30 millim. 



6103. Tarache disconnecta. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 14.) 



Acontia disconnecta, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 212 (1903). 



(S . Head white with some olive-brown above frons and on 

 vertex ; antennae brown ; tegulae pure white ; thorax olive-brown 

 with some white and silvery scales ; abdomen yellowish white ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen pure white. Fore 

 wing pure silvery white ; an oblique triangular dark olive-brown 

 subbasal patch on inner area connected at inner margin with an 

 oblique antemedial bar from below the cell; a triangular olive- 

 brown patch from lower angle of cell to inner margin with a 

 slight white spot on its outer edge at vein 1 : postmedial line 

 represented by a blackish point on costa, two obliquely placed 

 black points beyond the cell between veins 6 and 4 and two small 

 spots on the triangular patch ; an olive-brown apical patch with 



