744 N0CTUID33. 



6118. Tarache apatelia. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 1.) 



Tarache apatelia, Swiiik. A. M. N. H. (7) xix. p. 53 (1907). 



S . Head and thorax pure white, the metathoracic crest black- 

 brown ; palpi at tips, irons, and antennae blackish ; tibiae and 

 tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen white with brown seg- 

 mental dorsal bands. Fore wing creamy white, the terminal area 

 purple-grey suffused with red-brown in parts, the white extending 

 on costa to subterminal line, its outer edge bent inwards at vein 6 

 to beyond the cell and at vein 4 to medial line, then sinuous to inner 

 anargin; subbasal line double, grey -brown, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, grey-brown, rather oblique to median 

 nervure, then waved ; orbicular and reniform defined by greyish 

 black, the former open above and below, the latter with some grey 

 n centre ; medial and postmedial grey-brown spots on costa ; post- 

 medial line arising from the extremity of the white area at vein 6, 

 blackish, minutely waved, strongly bent inwards below vein 4, then 

 indistinctly double filled in with some white ; subterminal line 

 white defined on inner side by rufous marks, obsolete towards costa, 

 bent inwards between vein 3 and submedian fold, then outwards to 

 tornus ; a terminal series of small black spots except at tornus, 

 defined on inner side by white striae ; cilia brown mixed with white 

 and with slight dark line at middle. Hind wing white, the termen 

 suffused with brown from apex to vein 3 ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with yellow, a dark postmedial bar from costa 

 and patch at apex. 



§ . Fore wing with grey-brown band beyond costal half of ante- 

 medial line leaving an irregular postmedial white patch on costal 

 area enclosing the reniform, the orbicular filled in with grey ; hind 

 wing with brown discoiclal bar or point, the terminal band extending 

 to tornus. 



Hah. Angola, Bihe, 1 $ type; Be. E. Africa, Machakos 

 (Crawshay), 1 tf , Kikuyu (Betton), 6 $ , Eb Urru (Betton), 1 J, 

 Nairowa (Betton), 1 $ , Gwelil (Betton), 1 $ . Exp. 24-26 millim. 



6119. Tarache hyperlophia. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 2.) 



Tarache hyperlophia, Hrnpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 387 (1902). 



3 . Head and thorax white; palpi black at extremities of 2nd and 

 3rd joints; frons with black bar ; antennae and metathoracic crest 

 black ; tibiae and tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen yellow 

 with dorsal black bands, the ventral surface white with small 

 lateral and sublateral black spots. Fore wing white; subbasal line 

 grey, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 grey, double, waved, the inner line obsolescent towards costa : 

 orbicular and reniform defined by grey at sides, the former rounded, 

 the iattcr elliptical ; medial and postmedial oblique grey bars from 



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