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6147. Tarache terminimaculata. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 29.) 



Tarache iemiinimacvlata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Foe. Nat. Sci. i. p. 153 (1873) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. ."01. 



5 . Head and thorax grey, the head and tegulse tinged with 

 brown ; pectus and legs white, the fore legs and mid and hind tibiae 

 and tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous white slightly 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey slightly irrorated with 

 brown, the terminal area suffused with rufous except at apex ; an 

 oblique punctiform black antemedial line from middle of cell to 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform represented by black points : 

 an incurved white line from lower angle of cell to inner margin 

 with a lunulate chocolate-red patch beyond it with some yellowish 

 scaling on its outer edge ; postmedial line represented by an oblique 

 white bar from costa with some black scales from it to the chocolate 

 patch; traces of a rufous subterminal line excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the 

 cilia yellowish white; the underside pale yellow. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1 $ , Illinois. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



6148. Tarache dacia. 



Acoiitia dacia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Aui., Het. i. p. 308, pi. 28. f. 25 

 (1889). 



5 . Head and thorax greyish white slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 antennae brown ; tarsi brownish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with rufous and dorsally irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wiug greyish tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with 

 brown ; antemedial line rather diffused, black, obliquely curved, 

 not quite reaching the costa ; the medial area with an oblique dark 

 shade through the cell to the postmedial line, extending to just 

 below the cell ; the orbicular and reniform represented by slight 

 black points ; an incurved whitish line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin with a chocolate-red lunulate patch beyond it ; post- 

 medial line oblique and v.'hiti&h from, costa to vein 6, excurved and 

 dark to vein 4, then strongly incurved whitish and forming the 

 outer edge of the lunulate patch ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing whitish, the costal area and termen tinged with red- 

 brown ; the underside ochreous white, the costal area irrorated 

 with a few brown scales. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoege), 1 $ , Vera Cruz {Schumann), 2 $ 

 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Panama, Chiriqui, La Chorrera {JJolhy- 

 Tyler), 1 $ . Exp. 26 millim. 



