742 jstocttjid^. 



streak in discal fold and patches on costa at middle and towards 

 apex. 



Hah. Mexico, Presidio (Fori-er), 1 c? , Guerrero, Venta de Zopilote 

 (H. H. Smith), 2^,1$ type and type philomela, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 22-24 millim. 



6115. Tarache ardoris. (Plate CLXXI. figs. 29 cJ , 30 $ .) 



Tarache ardoris, Hiibn, Zutr. Ex. Schmett. iii. p. 34, ff. 551-2 (1827), S; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 301. 

 Tarache clue7ina., Sehaiis, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 118 (1898). 



S . Head and thorax white, the latter with slight grey marks on 

 dorsum ; palpi at tips, a bar across frons and anteume greyish 

 fuscous ; fore tibiae and the tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen yellowish white with rather diffused dark dorsal bands. 

 Fore wing creamy white ; subbasal line grey, double, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line grey tinged with olive at 

 costa, double, waved ; orbicular a minute tuft of raised black scales, 

 the reniform a slight black striga ; a small olive spot on middle of 

 costa ; Lerminal area purple-grey mixed with some red-brown and 

 with some olive-green on its inner edge beyond the cell, its inner 

 edge slightly angled inwards at vein 7 and at vein 4 strongly in- 

 curved to below the cell ; postmedial liue with white striga from 

 costa, then formed by slight black marks, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line slight, whitish, defined on inner side by 

 rufous marks, escurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved 

 and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black spots with 

 larger marks above and below middle, slightly defined by Avhite on 

 inner side ; cilia purple-grey with some rufous and white at apex 

 and some white ab middle. Hind wing yellowish white, the termen 

 suff'used with ochreous brown except towards tornus. 



5 . Eore wing purple-grey beyond the antemedial line leaving a 

 large semi-elliptical white patch on costa with some olive suffusion 

 round it, its lower extremity somewhat excised and with a dark 

 point on it at middle of costa. 



Hah. Brazil, Itaparica {Meade- Waldo), 1 5, Sao Paulo {B. 

 Jones), 2 S -, Organ Mts., Tijuca {Wagner), 1 $ ; pAEAeuAY, 

 Sapucay {Foster), 3 $ ; Argentina, Gran Chaco ( Wagner), 1 (S . 

 Exp. 22 millim. Type t $ duenna in U.S. Nat, Mus. 



The locality 'Georgia" is an error. 



6116, Tarache morides. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 31.) 



Acontia morides, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xsi. p. 239 (1894). 



cJ . Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi at tips and frons 

 tinged with fuscous ; antennae brown j metathoracic crest brown 



