740 NOCTUID^^ 



*6112. Tarache mescei. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 26.) 



Acontia meskei. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 79 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 214. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy white. Fore wing 

 creamy white, extending on costal half to near subterminal line 

 and on inner half to middle, the terminal area brown tinged with 

 purplish ; subbasal line represented by a small blackish spot on 

 cost a, the antemedial line by a larger patch ; orbicular a black 

 point, the reniform indicated by some diffused brown scales ; medial 

 shade represented by a browu band from cell to inner margin just 

 before the postmedial line, which is represented by a dark patch on 

 costa, then by a series of small black spots arising at vein 6 well 

 beyond the cell and bent inwards below vein 3 ; subterminal line 

 creamy white defined on inner side by a golden brown shade and 

 on costal area by small black spots, irregular ; terminal area with 

 brown creamy and purplish markings ; a terminal series of blaclc 

 strise. Hind wing yellowish white, the termen tinged with brown ; 

 the underside with dark discoidal spot and postmedial patch on 

 costa with fine line from it to vein 4, a narrow blackish terminal 

 band. 



Hob. U.S.A., Texas. Exp. 20-22 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me ; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



6113. Tarache sedata. (Plate CLXXI. figs. 27 d , 28 ? .) 



Tarache sedata, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 23 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 300. 

 Acoritia nuicola. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 67 (1900) ; Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 214. 



5 • Head grey-brown mixed with white ; palpi white ; pectiis 

 and legs white, the fore tibise and the tarsi brown ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white with dorsal brown bands. Pore wing 

 with the basal half ochreous white, the terminal half olive-brown 

 shading to purple-grey ; subbasal line grey-brown, doiible, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an antemedial grey-brown band from 

 costa to median nervure, then a slight line incurved in submedian 

 fold and exenrved above inner margin, connected at median 

 nervure with the dark terminal area ; orbicular a small round black 

 spot ; reniform small defined by black, hoop-shaped, open below, 

 some brown in centre and white round it ; a conical postmedial 

 yellowish white patch from costa, the dentate black postmedial line 

 arising from it, strongly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 yellowish white with slight red-brown and black marks on its inner 

 edge slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6, excurved at middle, 

 then bent inwards and oblique to tornus ; a terminal series of small 

 black spots slightly defined on inner side by white ; cilia leaden 

 grey with whitish patches below apex and at middle. Hind wing 



