BOPLOTARACHE. 715 



Hab. Egypt, Libyan deserj in Coll. de Joannis; Snro, Karachi 

 1 6, 5 J type; Bombay, Kutch, 1 J . Exp. 22-24 

 millim. 



6081. Hoplotarache nubila, n. sp. (Plate CLXX. fig. 29.) 



3. Bead and thorax pure white, the tegulse and prothorax some- 

 times with a few black scales, the metathorax with black-brown 

 patch; palpi :it tips, frons, and antennae blackish, tl es in 



frontal prominence ochreons; legs white mixed with brown, the 

 tore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white: abdomen white 

 dorsally tinged with ochreous brown and with brown segmental 

 bands. Fore wing purple-grey with some olive-brown suffue 

 in and beyond the cell, the costal area white to postraedial line with 

 olive-brown liars from costa, the basal area suffused with white 

 in submedian interspace; subbasal line represented by a white 

 slriga (Vom costa; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in 

 with white, sinuous; orbicular and reniform small, with greyish 

 centres and slight dark brown annuli defined by white, the former 

 round; an oblique sinuous blackish medial line from cell to inner 

 margin; postmedial line arising at t vein 6, formed of small black 

 lunules defined on outer side by grey, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 and slightly angled outwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 slight, white defined on inner side by small dentate brown marks 

 and by a black mark below costa, minutely waved, slightly ex- 

 curved below vein 7 and at middle, then bent inwards and oblique 

 to tornus ; terminal area with some white suffu middle; a 



terminal series of black stria- slightly defined by white on inner 

 Bide ; cilia brown with a few black scales, and white patches below 

 apex and at middle. Hind wing white, the vein al and 



terminal areas suffused with brown ; a brown discoidal point ; 

 cilia white, tinged with brown at, base; the underside with pi 

 medial line excurved at discal fold. 



$. Hind wing wholly suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. (j" . Fore wing with the basal halt white, the d 

 brown subbasal and antemedial lines distinct, the latter with some 

 blue-grey beyond it below the cell, the subterminal line with 

 blaek marks beyond it below apex and veins 3, 2. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Taveta < Rogers), 1 ? , Tsai 

 Athi Valley (Crawshay), 1 ,\ Eb I rru i /-'■ pe ; 



Transvaal, Warmbad (Janse), 2 y. Exp. i millim. 



P. II. Hind wing with von - >m cell. 



A. Fore wing white with dari markii 



a. Hind wnii; orange 



Bind wing white. 



I re wing with the pos line defined 



..]! 1III1.T 



b l . Fore wing without green 



B. Fore wing uniform orai 



C. Fore wing uniform cream; wee 



