TAKACHE. 735 



white, the fore and mid tibiae and tarsi banded with brown ; 

 abdomeu white dorsally suffused with grey-brown. Pore wing 

 white, the inner half of basal area brown suffused with leaden 

 grey ; an antemedial grey spot on costa ; orbicular a blackish 

 point ; reniform very small, elliptical, incompletely defined by 

 black, its centre tinged with grey or olive ; a conical brown patch 

 suffused with leaden grey from discal fold before the reniform to 

 inner margin on which it extends from middle to near subterminal 

 line ; postmedial line with grey spot on costa, then olive, angled 

 outwards below vein 7 where there are two black points on it, 

 strongly incurved below vein 4 and formed by black lunules on the 

 brown area, a red-brown patch on apical area with the subterminal 

 line on it slight, white and with black patch before it below costa, 

 then slightly defined by grey on inner side on the white area, 

 excurved at middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia leaden grey, intersected with white below apex and 

 with white patch at middle. Hind wing whitish, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with brown ; a slight brown discoidal bar ; 

 cilia brown at base white at tips ; the underside white with brown 

 discoidal bar, a faint postmedial bar from costa, the termen suffused 

 with brown from apex to vein 2. 



5 . Tegulae white at base only ; fore wing with complete dark 

 antemedial band, angled outwards on median nervure and usually 

 connected with the postmedial patch ; reniform filled in with grey. 



Ab. 1. c?. Fore wing with the antemedial dark spot on costa 

 connected by a slight incurved line with the dark patch on inner 

 margin. 



Hind wing often with vein 5 almost from lower angle of cell. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, jSTew Mexico, 'KesiWd. {Coclcerell), 1 5, 

 Las Vegas, Hot Springs, Arizona, Phoenix (Oslar, Kunze), 20 J, 

 17$, Prescott (Kunze), 2 $ , Pinal Mts. (Kunze), 1 $ , Tucson 

 (Oslar), 3 2 • ^^P- ^'^-^^ millim. 



6106. Tarache abdominalis. (Plate CLXXI. figs. 18 j , 19 $ .) 



Tarache abdominalis, Grote, Can. Enfc. ix. p. 157(1877); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 298. 



(S . Head and thorax grey-brown ; palpi white except at tips ; 

 patagia white at outer edge and tips ; metathorax with some white 

 at sides ; pectus and legs mostly white, the tibiae and tarsi banded 

 brown and white ; abdomen brown with white segmental lines, the 

 ventral surface white with dark bars. Fore wing white, the terminal 

 area reddish brown with an olive tinge, the outer edge of the white 

 area excurved to the reniform, then incurved; the costal area 

 suffused with olive-brown to the antemedial brown bar from costa 

 to median nervure ; a brown streak on base of vein 1 ending at 

 double brown bars on inner area representing part of the ante- 

 medial line ; orbicular a black point ; reniform small, brown. 



