738 NOCTUIDiE. 



from its apex, incurved below vein 5 and again at vein 2 below 

 which there is a silvery blue patch defined by black beyond it ; 

 subterminal line slight, whitish, excurved below vein 7, where there 

 are two short black streaks before it, and again at middle, then 

 incurved ; a terminal series of small black spots slightly defined on 

 inner side by white ; cilia brown and grey with a whitish patch at 

 middle and a slight dark line through them. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, the termen suff'used with reddish brown expanding somewhat 

 at discal and submedian folds ; the underside yellowish white with 

 brownish postmedial bar from costa and patch at apex. 



5 . Pore wing with the outer edge of the white area excurved in 

 cell to just beyond orbicular only ; hind wing rather more uniformly 

 tinged with brown. 



In one or two specimens veins 3, 4 of hind wing are hardly 

 stalked or from cell. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona {Poling), 1 2, ISTogales (Oslar), 3 S, 

 Pinal Mts, (Kunze), 1 $ , Prescott (Kunze), 1(5, 1 $ ; Mexico, 

 Sonora (Mon^ison), 1 $ , Durango (Forrer), 3 (5 , 2 $ , Vera Cruz, 

 Cordova (Bumeli), 1 d" , 2 § , Atoyac (H. H. Smith), 1 J' , Cuer- 

 navaca (JI. H. Smith), 1 2 , Guerrero {S. H. Smith), 1 $ , Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exio. 24-32 millim. 



6110. Tarache aprica. (Plate CLXXI. figs. 23 d , 24 $ .) 



Noctua aprica, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 371 (1802) • Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. iii. p. 113 ; Wood, Ind. Ent. p. 241, pi. 62. f. 1671 ; Westw. 



Erit. Moths, i. p. 239, pi. 63. f. 12 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 298. 

 Noctua albo-ater, Haw. Brit. Lep. p. 184 (1809). 

 Acontia unocula, Err. Neue Beitr. vi. p. 86, pi. 534. f. 3 (1852). 

 Acontia hijplaga, Guen. J!^oet. ii. p. 218 (1852). 

 Acontia ceyvestensis, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. vi. p. 63 (1904). 

 Acontia ' tetragona, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 305 (part.), 



nee Wlk. 



cJ . Head brown ; palpi except at tips and frons white ; thorax 

 white ; fore tibise and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white. Pore wing white, the terminal area purplish grey and 

 rufous, the white area extending on costa to near apex, its outer 

 edge angled inwards at vein 6 and again below end of cell ; a sub- 

 basal dark point on costa and ante- and postmedial spots ; the 

 orbicular represented by a minute black point, the reniform by a 

 slight brown bar ; postmedial line formed of slight dentate black 

 marks, arising at vein 6 and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line formed of slight white marks defined on inner side 

 by small somewhat dentate black marks, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, then incurved and the white marks obscurely 

 double ; a terminal series of black striae defined on inner side by 

 slight white marks ; cilia brown with white patch at middle. 

 Hind wing white, the costal area very slightly tinged with brown 

 towards apex ; the underside with slight dark postmedial bar from 

 costa. 



