TARACHE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
88. Genus : Taraclie Him. 
A large cosmopolitan Genus of very uniform type and appearance and which is closely connected with 
the previous Genera. Its main characteristics are the porrect palpi with short terminal segment, simple rounded 
protuberance on frons, frequently with rough upper surface and corneous plate below. Thorax scaled, with 
a small flat crest at rear, abdomen without crests. Forewings witli appendicular cell. Hindwings with well deve¬ 
loped median radial. Generally the sexes are very dissimilar. 
T. lactipennis Harv. (54 a). In this and the following 6 species the 8 has a transparent cavity at base lactipennis. 
of forewings above the inner marginal nervure. Forewings white Avitli fuscous basal spot, olive-brown sub- 
terminal band with a finely dentate, white transverse line therein flecked inwardly with silvery blue. Hindwings 
white, brownish at margin. Texas. 
T. expolita Grt. (= embolima Drc.) (54 a). Forewings brown. dusted with silvery purple reddish with expolita. 
wide yellow-white costal streak which is edged with olive below. Anal spot yellow-white. Very indistinct dark 
transverse lines and elliptic reniform circumscribed by blackish. Hindwings pale fulvous, margin and veins 
darker. Texas and Arizona to Mexico. 
T. interposita Dyar (54 a). Forewings leaden black in wider inner marginal area intermixed with silvery interposita. 
blue and bronze-brown scales. Costa pure white intersected by a grey band both in basal and apical third. In 
place of stigmata the dark inner colouration projects a little into the white. Hindwings whitish grey, darker 
on veins and at margin. Mexico (Tehuacan), a small species. 
T. cora B. & McD. (54 a) is somewhat similar to the preceding but larger. Forewings reddish mauve- com. 
brown with paler patch in centre of inner margin. Costal area wide, white somewhat inclined to olive below 
and intersected by two yellow' oblique bands. The projecting reniform stigma circumscribed by black. Trans¬ 
verse lines indicated by whitish in the dark part. Subterminal area dusted with bluish white, almost pure white 
at anal angle. Hindwings transparent white, brownish at margin. Arizona. 
T. lucasi Sm. (= pima Sm., $ aniluna Sm.) (54 a) is also similar, brown dusted with silvery blue, lucasi. 
with white costal area that in basal area extends below the cell. Transverse lines brown indicated in darker 
part. Subterminal line white, interrupted. Fringes brown and mauve, spotted with white below centre. Hind¬ 
wings white, brownish at margin. California and Arizona. 
T. vittamargo Dyar (54 a). Forewings black mauve with wide white costal streak, 2 reddish brown vittamargo. 
transverse lines indicated in dark part and violet-white mauve spotted anal angle with 2 small black marginal 
spots. Hindwings yellowish A\ r hite. Mexico (Tehuacan). 
T. tetragona Wkr. (= alessandra Sm., $ quadriplaga Sm., redota Fldr.) (54 b). Forewings white in tetragona. 
with 2 black costal spots and olive-brown marginal area turning to mauve-grey outwardly. This extends beloAA' 
the cell to the outer median half, in which is the AAdiite subterminal line that is spotted with brown inwardly. 
HindAvings yellow-white, darker at margin. The $ is much more extensively brown and grey, only wfliite at 
base, a large quadrate costal spot and a smaller one posteriorly. Hindwings ochreous brown. Texas, Utah, 
New- Mexico, Arizona, Mexico; Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti. 
T. rufescens Hamps. (54 b). Forewings yellow-white, rufous in marginal area, glossy mauve subtermin- rufescens. 
ally, edged by a dark fuscous posterior transverse line behind which is a triangular yellow-white costal spot. 
HindAvings white, faintly yellowish at margin. Brazil. 
T. major Sm. (54 b). Forewings silvery white, olive-brown in inner half to end of cell. Small obve- major. 
broAvn stigmata. Spotted with olive-brown towards apex with nebulous grey below. Hindwings yellowish, 
broAvnish at margin. Canada, Colorado. 
T. lanceolata Grt. (54 b). Forewings with olive-greenish ground suffused with silvery mauve. Costal lanceolata. 
area white with 2 olive-brown oblique spots at and behind the centre. Transverse lines outlined in silvery grey. 
Reniform stigma elliptical and somewhat whitish. Before the subterminal line that expands at its loAver ex¬ 
tremity, there are small black spots. Fringes leaden grey with wfliite specks beloAv apex and in centre. — ab. 
lanceolatana Strd. (— ab. 1 Hmps .) has the olive-brown oblique costal spots intersected by white. Texas, Ari¬ 
zona, Mexico. 
T. bilimeki Fldr. (= $ mizteca Schs.) (54 b). This can be recognised by the collar that is brown with bilimeki. 
white base in <$, widely white in $. The $ is olive-brown, more or less dusted with silvery violet, white costal 
streak in which before and behind the centre there may or may not be indications of transverse lines. The po¬ 
sterior one is often indicated by 2 olive-yellow streaks and again as a Avide olive-broAvn oblique band. Anal 
area white with grey subterminal line therein. Hindwings wfliite, narrowly brownish at margin. The $ is deep 
mauve Avith 3 white costal spots, the basal one long club-shaped, the central obliquely quadrate and the outer 
triangular. Hindwings yellowish, darker at margin. Mexico. 
