AULOTARACHE.— TARACII I.. 



below apex and at middle. Hind wine; yellowish white tinged with 

 red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown, a brown 

 discoid al point; cilia brownish at base, white at tips; the under- 

 Bide yellowish with dark marks on costa before and boyond middle 

 and at apex, a discoidal point and postmedial ; m veins 6, 5, !. 



2 . Fore wing with the brown area extending to the a lial 



line on inner area and to costa as a band beytfnd the antemedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing whiter and loss yellow, the markings of basal 

 area grey. — Kutch. 



Ab. 2. 5 . Head, teguloe, and prothorax brown. — Cuddapah. 



Hub. Madagascar, Foret d'Ambre ( Meade- Waldo), 1 3 ; Sixd, 

 1 $ ; Bombay, Kutch, 3 c?,l $ ; Madras, Cuddapah (Campbell), 

 1 ? . Exp. 20-22 millim. Type t in Coll. Mabille. 



Genus TARACHE. „, 



Type. 



Tarache, Hiibn. Verz. p. 261 (1827) ... caffrana. 



Euph ih. 111. Brit. Ent., Hauat. Hi. p. 115 L829) nitidula. 



Desmophora, Steph. Cat. Brit. Ins., Lep. ii. p. 109 ( 1 - - a descr. nitidula. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending to slightly beyond the 

 irons, the 2nd joint rather broadly fringed with scales below, the 3rd short ; 

 - with rounded prominence often slightly roughened at middle ami with 

 plate below it; eyes large, round; antei male somewhat 



uminateand almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with Bcales, the 

 irothorax without crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest; tibiae inode- 

 •ately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 •ounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 I 

 angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with - 

 brm the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell 

 i : .". nearly fully developed from well below middle of cuscoeellulars 

 ir almost from lower angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 vith the cell to near middle. 



I. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



A. Fore wing of male with hyaline fovea above base of vein 1 

 Pore wing without ante- and postmedial dark marks on 

 costa. 

 a\ Fore wing with obliquely curved olive-brown has 



patch widely separated from tie' subterminal band ... »w. 



6 l . Fore wing without obliquely curved basal dark 

 a-. Fore wing with the olive-brown inner 



ing to base 



/<-. Fore wing with the basal inner area white 

 b. Fore wing with small quadrate ante- and lial d irk 



marks ou costa, connected in female with the d 

 inner area na - 



6092. Tarache lactipennis. (Plate CLXXI. 1 



Tarache lactipennis. HarT. Bull. B P- l0 . I 



(1876) . Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. ! 



<J. Head and thorax red-brown with a purple 



