. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. TARACHE. 725 red-brown ringed with white; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing red-brown suffused with silvery purple, the costal area white to near apex, extending at base to below the cell, its lower edge indented at middle of cell and angled just before the reniform ; faint traces of brown antemedial and medial lines on the dark area ; reniform small, slightly defined by black at sides ; postmedial line faint, brown, minutely waved, arising from the white area and strongly incurved below vein 6 ; subterminal
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. TARACHE. 725 red-brown ringed with white; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing red-brown suffused with silvery purple, the costal area white to near apex, extending at base to below the cell, its lower edge indented at middle of cell and angled just before the reniform ; faint traces of brown antemedial and medial lines on the dark area ; reniform small, slightly defined by black at sides ; postmedial line faint, brown, minutely waved, arising from the white area and strongly incurved below vein 6 ; subterminal line white, almo-^t obsolete and minutely waved towards costa, excurved at middle and extending to termen, then incurved and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia brown mixed with purple-grey and with white patch below middle. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia white tinged with brown at apex ; the underside white with slight brown mark at apex. Hah. , California, Cape San Lucas, Arizona, Tucson (Oslar), 1 d. Exp. 26 millim, 6095. Tarache tetragona. Acontia tetragona, Wlk. xii. 786 (1857); Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 305 (part.). Acontia redita, Feld. Eels. Not. pi. 108. f. 30 (1874); Druee, Biol. Am., Het. i. p. 306 (part.). Acontia quadriplaga, Smitb, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 72 (1900), 2- Acontia alessandra, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xsix. p. 212 (1903), J. cJ. Head and thorax pure white ; palpi at tips, a band across frons, and the antennae brown; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally suffused with ochreous. Fore wing pure white; subbasal line represented by a dark point on costa, the antemedial line by a bar from costa ; orbicular some- times represented by a minute black point ; reniform brown. Fig. 208.—Tarache tetragona, S- 1- defined by black, placed on the inner edge of the dark terminal area which is olive-brown shading to purplish grey to
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