712 noctuid^:. 



Genus HOPLOTARACHE, nov. 



Type, H. mionides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending about the 

 length of head, the 2nd joint moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons with 

 truncate conical corneous prominence with raised edges and small process in 

 centre; eyes large, round ; antennae of male somewhat laminate and ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae slightly 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with S to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or stalked ; 

 5 from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked. 



L. Fore wing with the costal area white to subterminal line. 



a. Fore wing with the basal inner area white. 



a 1 . Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform absent... sublota. 

 b l . Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform present lunana. 



b. Fore wing with the basal inner area dark. 



(i 1 . Hind wing with the apex tinged with brown semialba. 



b l . Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with 

 brown in male, in female the whole wing suffused 



with brown cosfalis. 



B. Fore wing with brown markings on costa leaving a more 

 or less developed white subcostal fascia. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform absent carachieims. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform defined by 



wh ite nubila. 



*6076. Hoplotarache sublota. (Plate CLXX. fig. 25.) 



Tarache sublota, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent, Fr. 1899, p. 728. 



c? . Head and thorax white with some ochreous scales ; palpi 

 ochreous, fuscous at tips ; antenna) brown ; legs and abdomen 

 white suffused with ochreous. Fore wing white, the costa suffused 

 with ochreous and brown ; a diffused oblique ochreous brown 

 band from cell to inner margin ; a diffused oblique band from 

 termen below apex to inner margin, its outer edge excurved at 

 middle and incurved below vein 3 ; a red-brown terminal line ; 

 cilia white, fuscous at tips. Hind wing white, the terminal area 

 slightly tinged with brown ; the underside with terminal series of 

 dark points from apex to vein 2. 



Hob. Madagascar, Antongil Bay, type t <$ in Mus. Paris. Exp. 

 20 millim. 



6077. Hoplotarache lunana. 



Pyralis lunana, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 243 (1794). 



Acontia olivea, Ghien. Noct. ii. p. 217 (1852) ; Moore, Lep. Ccyl. iii. p. 47, 



pi. 150. f. 3 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 313. 

 Tarache nivosa, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 446, pi. 41. f. 14. 



J. Head and thorax white, the metathorax grey-brown; palpi 

 at tips and frons brownish ; antennas brown ; fore tibia) and the 

 tarsi brown ringed with white; ahdomen white dorsally suffused 



