718 N0CTTJIDJ5. 



6085. Hoplotarache holoxantha, n. sp. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 1.) 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; palpi blackish 

 at tips : fore tibia? and the tarsi tinged with fuscous ; wings uniform 

 orange-yellow ; the underside of fore wing with slight brownish 

 suffusion on disk. 



Bab. Uganda, White Nile. Gondokoro (Reynes-Cole), 1 J type. 

 E.rp. 20 railliin. 



*6086. Hoplctarache sordescens. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 2.) 



Thalpochares sordescens, Staud. Iris. vii. p. 282 (1894) : id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 227. 



2 . Head and thorax white faintly tinged with brown ; palpi 

 browner towards tips ; antennas brown, ringed with white towards 

 base : tarsi brownish ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing white faintly tinged with reddish brown : 

 cilia with a faint brown line at middle. Hind wing white tinged 

 with reddish brown, the terminal area suffused with brown; cilia 

 pure white. Underside of fore wing suffused with brown except 

 the costal area and terminal area to vein 3 ; hind wing white faintly 

 tinged with reddish brown. 



Bab. Asia Minor, Diarbekir in Coll. Piingeler ; Syria, Mardin. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus CHELICHARES, nov. 



Type, C. nubifera. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching to 

 middle of frons and slightly scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons with large 

 truncate corneous prominence with raised edges and long central pi 

 hollowed out in front, a corneous plate below it- ; eyes large, round ; antennae 

 somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the fore tibia with short claw 

 on inner side at extremity ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather long 

 and narrow, the apex somewhat produced upwards and rounded, the ternieu 

 obliquely curved and not crenulate ; vein o from before angle of cell : 5 from 

 above angle; (> from upper angle; 9 from It) anastomosing with 8 to form the 

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

 fully developed from below middle of discocellulars; t>, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



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6087. Chelichares nubifera, n. sp. 



d . Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi except at base and 

 antennae brown ; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white dorsally suffused with brown, the anal tuft 

 ochreous. Fore wing white ; subbasal line represented by slight 

 grey-brown stria? from costa and cell : antemedial line grey-brown, 

 double, excurved from costa to median nervure, then incurved ; 

 orbicular a black point, the reniform a slight yellow bar ; an oblique 

 brown bar from middle of costa ; a large purple-grey semicircular 



