746 noctuib^:. 



sometimes with brownish marks on costa at and beyond middle and 

 at apex or the termen irrorated with brown to snbmedian fold. 



2 . Fore wing Avith the antemedial bar from costa connected with 

 the dark inner area. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the dark marks on the white costal area 

 replaced by faint yellowish marks. 



Hah. New Guinea (Mathew), 1 3 , 1 $ , Port Moresby, 1 $ 

 Queensland, Peak Downs, 2 5 type, Brisbane (Turner), 1 tf , 1 $ 

 W. Australia, Sherlock R. (Clements), 2 J , 1 5, Derby, 1 $ 

 N. S. Wales (Raynor), 2 S . Exp. 22-24 millim. 



6121. Tarache basifera. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 4.) 



Acontia basifera, Wlk. xii. 793 (1857) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 314. 



cf . Head and thorax white, the metathoracic crest olive-brown ; 

 palpi at tips, a band across frons, and antennae brownish ; fore 

 tibia? and the tarsi brownish ringed with white ; abdomen brown 

 with white segmental lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 with the costal area white from inner margin near base to costa 

 towards apex, its lower edge irregular and curved downwards to 

 enclose the orbicular and reniform, the rest of wing olive-brown 

 mixed with purplish grey and slightly irrorated with white ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a grey-brown striga from costa connected 

 with a spot in cell ; antemedial line grey-brown and oblique from 

 costa to median nervure where it is angled, then olive and inwardly 

 oblique ; orbicular and reniform small, grey-brown, the former 

 round, the latter elliptical ; a triangular medial grey-brown spot 

 on costa ; postmedial line with grey-brown spot on costa, then 

 blackish with some olive before it beyond and below the cell, 

 excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved to below end of cell ; 

 subterminal line white, obsolescent towards costa, excurved at 

 middle, then bent inwards and oblique to tornus ; a terminal series 

 of small black spots defined by white on inner side ; cilia brown 

 with white tips towards apex, then fuscous with a white patch at 

 middle. Hind wing white tinged with reddish brown except the 

 costal area to beyond middle, an indistinct discoidal spot; cilia 

 white ; the underside white, some brown on middle of costal area, 

 a discoidal spot, diffused postmedial line from costa to vein 3 and 

 terminal band. 



$ . Tegulae at tips, upper part of patagia, and dorsum of thonix 

 grey-brown ; fore wing more suffused with olive-green below the 

 white costal area, the antemedial and medial costal marks con- 

 nected ; hind wing wholly suffused with brown. 



Hah. Punjab, Almora (Boys), 1 § type, Manpuri, 1 $ , Moglial 

 Sarai (Betton), 1 $ ; Bombay, Kutch, 1 3 , Bombay (Swinhoe, 

 Leith), 1 (5,1$; Madras, Coimbatore ( Walhouse), 1 5 ; Bukjia, 

 Myingyan (Watson), 1 J. Exp. 18-22 millim. 



