SCOTOSTEXA. PROTARACII B. ! \~', | 



ins ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with red-brown. 



ore wing ochreous brown with a greyish tinge, the terminal half 



Torated with blackish; subbasal line represented by blackish 



ointa on costa and median uervure ; ante medial line double, the 



iner line slight, the outer strong, black, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular 



epresented by an oblique black striga ; reniform oclir-ous whiti-h 



efined at sides by black and its centre slightly by black scales, 



bricted at middle; a curved red-brown medial shade; post- 



il line black defined on outer side by ochreous, bent outwards 



. costa, strongly excurved to vein 4, then bent inwards to 



Blow end of cell and angled outwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line 



tint, whitish, defined on inner side by a black patch at costa, then 



y slight black spots, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 



[terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia grey with a black lino 



hrough them. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-brown ; cilia 



rey with a dark line near base ; the underside grey with slight 



irroration, a curved post-medial line. 



Hub. Queensland, Townsville (Dodd), type t d in Coll. Turner; 



\. Australia, Port Darwin. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus PEOTARACHE, nov. 



Tvn.>. p, \ea. 



- fully developed; palpi upturned, slight, hardly reaching to middle 

 f frons which lias a large corneous prominence with raised edges and slight 

 jughened knob in centre ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 lorai clothed almost entirely with scalp?, the prothorax without crest, the 

 letathorax with decumbent crest; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; 

 bdoraen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 le termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 ?11 ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully 

 eveloped from well below middle of discocellulars ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Pore wing without white patch in end of cell. 



a. Fore wing without antemedial patch of black scales below 



the cell eulepidea. 



b. Fore wing with antemedial patch of black scales below 



the cell melaph 



B. Fore wing witli white patch in end of cell. 



«. Fore wing with the patch in cell large, elliptical gladi 



b. Fore wing with the patch in cell much smaller 



produced at lower extremity requtes. 



• •. Protarache eulepidea. 

 Tarache eulepidea, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 514 (1896). 



II id and thorax white mixed with some reddish brown; palpi 

 ark brown with the extremities of 1 -t and 2nd joints and the 

 rd joiut whitish; tegulse with slight medial brown line; tarsi 

 anded with brown ; abdomen white tinged with rufous, the basal 

 rest blackish. Fore wing whitish; the basal area irrorated with 

 rown and a few pink and black scales; antemedial line slight. 



