phaenna. 
terminima- 
culata. 
dacia. 
cratina. 
phrygionis. 
jaliscana. 
chea. 
behri. 
delecta. 
cretata. 
schwarzi. 
coquilletti. 
eudryada. 
396 TARACHE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
with grey circumscription. Posterior transverse line dark, subterminal line indistinctly scaled with black. Hind- 
wings dark brown. California. 
T. phaemia Drc. (54 f). Forewings grey-brown, chocolate brown in marginal area, yellowish white costa 
at base. Stigmata with faintly paler surrounds. Indistinct darker brown transverse lines and with yellowish 
spot posterior to subterminal line at anal angle. Hindwings brown. Mexico. 
T. termininiaculata Grt. (54 f). Forewings grey peppered with brown, dusted with brown in marginal 
area. Posterior transverse line is a white outwardly concave line with a chocolate-brown crescent, edged out¬ 
wardly by yellow, behind it. It extends from lower end of cell to inner margin and at costa consists of an oblique 
white streak. Hindwings fulvous. Massachusetts, New York. Illinois. 
T„ dacia Drc. ( = curvilinea B. <b McD.) (54 f). Forewings in peppered with brown on whitish 
ground. A deep brown crescent spot, behind which the shade is claret-brown, posterior to the semicircular 
arched white posterior line. Hindwings transparent whitish, yellowish at apex. The $ is darker with oblique 
wide, diffuse black antemedian, the white postmedian being only visible below the cell. Hindwings fulvous. 
Texas, Mexico, Panama. 
T. cratina Drc. is very similar to the preceding species, but has a darker basal area of mauve-grey colour, 
peppered with fuscous with more distinct oblique antemedian. Orbicular stigma is a black spot, similarly the 
reniform. Behind the white postmedian, that is shaped as in the preceding species, there is a distinct comma- 
shaped, deep chocolate-brown spot with somewhat incurved upper end and which is outwardly edged by a 
second curved white streak. Hindwings brown. Mexico (Veracruz). 
T. phrygionis Hmps. (54 g) also resembles the preceding, but has no orbicular stigma. Basal area is 
grev-white finely speckled with brown. Costa darker in basal half, coppery red in marginal area, grey towards 
the apex. Anterior transverse line double. Hindwings pale brownish, coppery red at margin. Argentine. 
T. jaliscana Schs. (= chea Drc. part.) (54 g) commences a second group, in which on hindwings the 
upper median and lower radial nervule arise free from lower angle of cell. In all the preceding these are more 
or less distinctly stalked. Forewings white in basal half with large brown spot, that is green-grey below, in the 
basal half of costa. The outer half of wing is olive-brown, admixed inwardly with yellow. Reniform stigma 
“S” shaped, narrow and with white circumscription. Subterminal line with inner mauve-brown spots and 
behind it are silvery blue streaks along veins. Terminal line white. Hindwings white, brownish on veins and 
at margin; black-brown in §. Mexico. 
T. chea Drc. Generally speaking this resembles the previous species, but is smaller and the large ante- 
median costal spot is divided by white colour into two smaller spots. Anterior to white subterminal line, there 
is a 2nd dentate white line. Hindwings transparent white, brownish at margin. Mexico (Durango). 
T. behri Sm. (54 g). Fore wings yellow-white, olive-brown in marginal area to centre of outer margin. 
Indistinct double transverse lines and 2 small brown costal spots in and behind the centre. Subterminal line 
yellow-white, also the fringes, that are spotted with brown at apex and anal angle. Hindwings brownish white, 
coppery brown at margin. California, Arizona. 
T. delecta Wkr. (= metallica Grt.) (54 g). Forewings yellow-white with brown patch mixed with leaden 
grey at base on costa and a similarly coloured subterminal band with a silvery blue posterior transverse line 
therein having an inner olive-yellow' edge. Also the subterminal line consists of silvery blue spots. In yellow- 
white marginal area there are isolated black spots. Hindwings pale yellow, spotted with brown at apex, in § 
with brown marginal band; the basal costal spot in that sex is prolonged to an oblique band to the submedian 
fold. New Jersey to Florida and Texas. — The brown larva has black tubercles and white subventral spots. 
Both the front pairs of abdominal legs are missing. It feeds on Hibiscus. 
T. cretata G. d R. (54 g). A smaller silvery white species with small grey costal spots above cell end 
and with olive-brown glossy coppery marginal area with 2 thin white dentate lines therein. Fringes yellow- 
white, brown at anal angle and apex. Hindwings white with faint brownish hue and coppery brown marginal 
band. California. Arizona. - f. schwarzi Sm. (54 g) is more boldly marked, grey costal spots before and in 
centre, with a grey transverse line before the centre. Reniform stigma grey with white circumscription, grey 
marginal area shaded inwardly with olive-yellow. New Mexico, Arizona. 
T. coquilletti Sm. (54 h) is like the form schwarzi of the preceding species, but can be differentiated im¬ 
mediately by the black-brown hindwings. Outer marginal area is more widely yellow-white behind the grey 
nebulous subterminal area. Reniform stigma an elliptical yellow spot. Subterminal line marked with metallic 
blue towards the apex. Fringes yellow-white intersected by a grey line. California. 
T. eudryada Sm. (54 h). Forewings white, spotted on costa like the preceding species. Subterminal 
band very narrow, grey and admixed with olive. Marginal area white, shaded with golden yellow inwardly and 
intersected by a metallic blue subterminal line. Hindwings grey-brown, paler towards base. Arizona. 
