31 G Mr. Chr. Aurivillras on Nciv African 



lanceolate slightly curved on fore-side, and terminated by a greyish 

 line ; very strongly suffused with blackish except at hind margin ; 

 hind-wing and under-side of both wings dark brown with pale veins. 



Expanse 44 mm. 



9 . Body fawn colour with the patagia deep castaneous ; fore- 

 wing castaneous, paler behind middle, a very strongly curved trans- 

 verse median line and another nearly straight oblique line from 

 costal margin jnst before apex to last third of hind margin, an 

 obsolete angulate submarginal line, hind marginal area lanceolate, 

 fawn colour without silvery streak at front side ; hind-wing and 

 under-side of both wings fawn colour. 



Expanse 63-65 mm. 



Natal : Durban, October (G. F. Leigh). A bred male 

 and female. Also a female from Manau, Nyassaland, in 

 Museum Holmise. 



Very nearly allied to T. grabcri, Dewitz, and perhaps 

 only a southern form of that species. The female of 

 graberi has the body gre3'ish, the fore-wing fuscous, greyish 

 at termen with the second transverse line running exactly 

 to apex and bent at vein 8 ; hind-wing and under-side 

 greyish, not fawn-coloured. 



T. cuncata, Dist., has the same ground-colour, but is 

 easily distinguished by the cuneate form and the silvery 

 line at front-side of the hind marginal area of fore-wing. 



The male has a greater resemblance to the male of 

 T. sjostcdti, Auriv. 



(Larva dark brown with numerous pale reticulate stria' ; 

 the thoracic somites dorsally yellow in front, the abdominal 

 somites dorsally yellow 'behind and with ill-defined dia- 

 mond-shaped dorsal marks; two fine rather irregular sub- 

 dorsal yellowish lines ; the hair on dorsum black, the 

 lateral tufts white. — G. F. H.) 



Taragama fusca, n. sp. 

 (Plate XVI, fig. 8.) 



cJ. Dark blackish grey; patagia blackish brown; fore-wing 

 blackish, along hind margin with a lanceolate dark greyish patch, 

 which on its fore-side near base has a silvery angulated line, behind 

 middle a slightly curved, nearly parallel 3 mm. broad, blackish 

 band, an obsolete irregular curved angulated blackish submarginal 

 line ; hind-wing and under-side of both wings dark blackish grey 

 without markings. 



Expanse ^ 33, $ 50 mm. 



