730 NOCTTTID.E. 



6096. Tarache rufescens, n. sp. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 8.) 



d . Head and thorax white tinged with yellow ; palpi white, 

 red-brown at tips ; antennae red-brown ; fore tibiae and the tarsi 

 red-brown ringed with white ; abdomen dorsally ochreous, veutrally 

 white. Fore wing white suffused with yellow to the postmedial 

 line, the terminal area ferruginous ; postmedial line rufous, ex- 

 carved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, a triangular yellowish- 

 white mark beyond it from costa, the area beyond it with a faint 

 purplish grey gloss to the very indistinct diffused rufous subterminal 

 line which is slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 angled inwards in submedian fold ; cilia yellow and rufous with a 

 rufous line through them and greyish patch above middle. Hind 

 wing white, the termen tinged with ochreous ; the underside with 

 the costal area tinged with ochreous. 



Hah. Brazil, Itaparica {Meade- Waldo), 2 S type. Exp. 26 

 millim. 



6097. Tarache ruficincta. n. sp. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 9.) 



<$ . Head and thorax glossy yellowish white ; antenna? brown ; 

 fore tarsi banded with black ; abdomen yellow. Fore wing glossy 

 yellowish white ; a terminal rufous band widest at middle and 

 ending at submedian fold ; cilia rufous except at tornus. Hind 

 wing pale yellow ; a terminal reddish brown band with diffused 

 inner edge ; cilia yellowish white ; the underside pale yellow with 

 slight brown irroration on terminal area below apex. 



2 . Hind wing with discoidal spot, the costal half irrorated with 

 brown on upper- and undersides. 



Hab. Abyssinia, Atbara (Gerrard), 1 rf , 1 $ type. Exp. 26 

 millim. 



*6098. Tarache major. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 10.) 



Acontia major, Smith, Trans. Ain. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 64 (1900) ; Dvar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 213. 



5 . Head white suffused with rufous ; tegulae and base of 

 patagia white, the rest of thorax olive-brown mixed with some 

 white and silvery scales ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and 

 fore and hind tarsi brownish ringed with white ; abdomen pale 

 yellowish. Fore wing silvery white, the inner half dark olive- 

 brown to end of cell into which it extends slightly ; orbicular a 

 small round olive-brown spot ; reniform small, defined by black 

 except below and with some olive-brown in upper part, a diffused 

 greyish patch beyond it ; postmedial line formed of small black 

 6pots, arising at vein 6 and below vein 4 very strongly incurved to 

 below end of cell on the dark inner area ; apical area dark olive- 

 brown leaving the costal edge white to near apex, with an oblique 

 series of three small black spots on it, and with some diffused grey 



