374 NOCTTJIDJS. 



brown, angled outwards below costa, tben waved, some brown 

 suffusion before it on inner area with two blackish marks on it ; 

 medial area suffused with purplish grey and with blackish beyond 

 the cell ; reniform represented by a slight black lunule ; a blackish 

 medial line, oblique to upper extremity of reniform, strongly 

 excurved beyond the cell and incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial 





Fig. 11G. — Protarache eidepidea, J. f. 



line double, black filled in with white and some pinkish, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 

 4, then incurved ; subterminal line white, defined on inner side by 

 red-brown suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, angled 

 inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 3 and bent outwards to 

 tornus, the area beyond it irrorated with grey ; a terminal series 

 of slight black stria? ; cilia brownish and white. Hind wing 

 reddish brown ; cilia yellowish white mixed with brown ; the 

 underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal 

 bar. 



Hub. Ceylon, Puttalam (Pole), 1 d, 2 5 type. Exp. 22millim. 



5570. Protarache melaphora, n. sp. (Plate CLX. fig. 2.) 



Tarache eulepidea, Hnipsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 389 (part.). 



2 . Head and thorax white tinged with rufous ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing whitish suffusec' 

 with rufous ; a diffused patch of raised black scales in and below 

 the cell before the very indistinct sinuous whitish antemedial line 

 medial area leaden grey with a blackish tinge beyond the cell 

 postmedial line indistinct, double filled in with whitish, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique 

 subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by rufous 

 suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, the area beyond il 

 irrorated with grey ; a terminal series of slight black stria? ; cilir 

 white and grey with a slight dark line at middle. Hind win:. 

 reddish brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line at middle ; th< 

 underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a terminal series o 

 blackish stria?. 



Hub. Bechuastaland, N'Gami (Lugard), 1 £ . Exp. 22 millim. 



*5571. ? Protarache gladiola. (Plate CLX. fig. 3.) 

 Chamadea gladiola, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxix, p. 67 (1907). 



Head brown ; thorax white, the tegulse yellowish at base, th 





