760 NOCTTJIDJE. 



6141. Tarachs semiatra. (Plate CLXXII. flg. 25.) 



Acontia aeoniatra, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 52(1902); Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 215. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with ochreous ; 

 palpi except at base and in front brown ; fore tibise and the tarsi 

 brown ringed with white ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen 

 pure white. Fore wing with the basal half white tinged with 

 ochreous ; a subbasal black point on costa ; the terminal half 

 blackish tinged with grey and irrorated with white ; reniform with 

 very indistinct white annulus, narrowing above and with blackish 

 spot in its lower part ; postmedial line dark defined on outer side 

 by ochreous white, on inner area forming a large patch extending 

 to tornus, bent outwards below costa, incurved at diseal fold and 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line rep)resented by diffused white 

 scales, excurved below vein 7, incurved at diseal fold, then excurved 

 to near termen ; cilia with a series of minute white points at base, 

 the tips yellowish mixed with broAvn. Hind wing ochreous white 

 suffused Avith brown ; cilia Avhite, brownish at base ; the underside 

 white tinsod Avith brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Yuma Co., 1 $ co-type, Quartzsite. Bxp. 

 24 millim. 



6142. Tarache flavonigra. 



Eivula flavonigra. Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 522, pi. 47. f. 15 ; Hmpsn, 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 310. 



Head and tegulse fuscous black mixed with some grey ; palpi 

 ochreous at base ; thorax Avhite tinged Avith ochreous broAvn ; fore 

 and mid tibiae and tarsi blackish ringed with Avhite ; abdomen 

 ochreous white with segmental broAvnish bands. Fore wing with 

 the basal area ochreous Avhite Avith a fuscous patch on base of costa 

 and bounded by the black antemedial line which is slightly ex- 

 curved at median nervure ; the rest of wing fuscous black glossed 

 with grej^ ; orbicular an ochreous white point slightly defined by 

 black ; reniform ochreous Avhite, its centre slightly defined by 

 black, lunulate ; postmedial line with ochreous spot at costa, then 

 slight, black defined on outer side by ochreous scales, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely Avaved, incurved below vein 4, some 

 AA^hite points beyond it on costa ; a terminal series of black points 

 defined on inner side by ochreous. Hind Aving white tinged Avith 

 ochreous especially towards termen ; cilia Avhite ; the underside 

 with the costal area tinged Avith broAvn. 



Bah. SiND, Karachi [Sivinlwe), 1 (S , 3 2 type; Madk.vs, Gooty 

 (CampbeU),! 2- /^i'^?. 18-22 millim. 



