773 



6162. Tarache cretata. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 8.) 



Tarache cretata, Grote and Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 181, pi. 



f. 78 (1808) ; Smith, Cat. Koct. N. Am. p. 300. 

 Acontia neocula, Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxvii. p. 75 (1900) ; Dyar, 



Oat. Lep, N. Am. p. 214. 



Head and thorax white ; palpi except at tips and antennae tinged 

 with brown ; fore tibiae and the tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 white slightly tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing silvery 

 white ; a slight greyish spot on costa above end of cell nsually 

 present ; terminal area olive-brown with a cupreous gloss, its inner 

 edge erect from costa to vein 6, then strongly incurved ; a slight 

 incurved dentate white postmedial line from vein 3 to inner 

 margin ; a fine white subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins 4, 3, then incurved; a fine white line just before 

 termen ; cilia white with some brown at apex. Hind wing white 

 with some brown suffusion at apex, the termen tinged with brown 

 to vein 2 ; the underside wholly white. 



Bah. U.S.A., Texas, 3 J, 1 $, Colorado, Utah, Bluff, Kew 

 Mexico, Hot S])rings, 1 5, Arizona, Gila Co. Globe {Kunze), 1 (S . 

 Exp. 24-26 millim. 



*6163. Tarache behri. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 9.) 

 Acontia hehrii, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 76 (1900). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; palpi brown at tips ; an- 

 tennae brown ; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white. 

 Fore wing creamy white ; antemedial line double, indistinct except 

 at costa, waved, oblique; small medial and postmedial brown spots on 

 costa ; the terminal area olive-brown leaving some creamy white on 

 middle of termen, its inner edge angled inwards at vein 6 and below 

 vein 4 incurved to middle of inner margin ; postmedial line slight 

 and oblique from the costal spot to vein 6, then dark, incurved at 

 discal fold, angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then incurved and double, 

 a fine white line beyond it on the dark area ; subterminal line creamy 

 white, excurved below vein 6 and at middle, then incurved, the area 

 beyond it dark except at middle ; a terminal series of black jjoints 

 and striae ; cilia creamy white, brown at apex and tornus. Hind 

 wing white faintly tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with cupreous brown ; cilia white tinged with brown at apex ; the 

 underside creamy white, traces of a curved brownish postmedial 

 line from costa to discal fold, the termen tinged with brown from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Arizona (Poling), 1 § in Coll. J. B. Smith 

 Ex2). 30 millim. 



