774 NOCTTTID^. 



6164. Tarache schvarzi. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 10.) 



Acontia schwarzii, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 73 (1900) ; Dyar, 

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



Head and thorax white; palpi tinged with brown except at 

 hase ; antennae brown ; fore tibise and the tarsi brown ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with ochreous. Pore wing 

 silvery white ; a diffused grey patch on costa before middle with 

 the slight grey antemedial line just beyond it, excurved to sub- 

 median fold, then incurved ; a grey spot on middle of costa ; reni- 

 form a narrow lunule with faint white annulus, its lower part 

 filled in with grey or almost obsolete ; terminal area olive-brown 

 shadiug to purple-grey, some yellowish on its inner edge which is 

 strongly angled at vein 6 and slightly beyond the reniform, then 

 incurved and with the indistinct dark postmedial line near its 

 inner edge followed by a fine dentate white line arising at vein 2 ; 

 subterminal line white, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 some blue- white irroration at apex ; a fine white line just before 

 termen ; cilia white, red-brown at apex. Hind wing white, the 

 termen suffused with red-brown from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico, Mesilla {CoclcereU), 1 5 , Gallinas 

 Canon {Oslar), 2 c5' , 2 5 , Arizona {Poling), 1 J, 1$, Cataiina 

 Springs, Phoenix. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



*6165. Tarache coquilletti. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 11.) 



Acontia coquillettii, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 74 (1900) ; Dyar, 

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



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen white with a slight creamy 

 tinge. Pore wing creamy white from base to postmedial line, on 

 costa extending almost to subterminal line, the terminal area 

 mottled with grey ; antemedial line represented by diffused double 

 grey marks on costa and a patch in cell ; orbicular absent, reniform 

 an elliptical yellow spot ; a medial grey patch on costa ; postmedial 

 line obsolete except on the dark area below vein 3 where it is 

 whitish and dentate ; the inner edge of terminal area curved in- 

 wards from diseal fold to inner margin before postmedial line ; 

 subterminal line fine, white and defined by black and metallic blue 

 scales on the dark apical area, then merged in the white terminal 

 area ; a grey terminal line defined on inner side by a yellowish 

 line ; cilia creamy white with a grey line through them from apex 

 to vein 3. Hind wing fuscous with the cilia white. Underside of 

 fore wing fuscous with a yellowish patch on costa before apex, 

 the cilia white ; hind wing fuscous, whitish at base. 



Hah. California, Los Angeles (Coquilletf). Exp. 25 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



