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•6130. Tarache neurota. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 12.) 

 Tata he Lower, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. ■';."• (19 



2. Head, tegulae, ami abdomen ochreom ; thorax pale y»l]>\\- 

 above. Fore wing whitish yellow; a blood-red subbasal striga 

 from est a; some red suffusion below base of cell; an oblique 

 waved red antemedial line expanding into a large patcb on outer 

 side at middle, on medial nervure conjoined to a large discoidal 

 patch; postmedial line somewhat dentate, bent outwards below 

 oi sta, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and confluent with 

 discoidal patch; an ill-defined highly dentate subterminal line; a 

 terminal band with irregular inner edge. Hind wing silky ochreous 

 tinged with brown on terminal area ; an ill-defined brown discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines. Underside 

 ochreous ; fore wing tinged with fuscous and with discoidal spot and 

 minutely waved postmedial and subterminal lines ; hind wing with 

 slight postmedial curved punctiform line. 



Il"h. Queensland, Cooktown, typef 2 m Coll. Lower. E.rp. 

 20 millim. 



6131. Tarache gratio^a. (Plate CLXXII. figs. 13 rf, 14 $ .) 



Aconlia r/ra/io.w, Wllgrn. Anteckn. i. Zool. i. p. 59(1856); id. Svensk. 



Vet.-Aknd. fiandl. v. (3) p. 68(1864). 

 Acontia lutcola, Suahu. Lep. Madag. p. 333, f. 171 (1891). 



J. Head and thorax olive-yellow : palpi whitish, black at tips; 

 frons whitish with blackish bar above ; pectus white, the fore tibiae 

 and the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen orange, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing orange-yellow, extending on costa to 

 towards apex arid on inner margin to middle, the terminal area 

 deep rufous with purple suffusion on postmedial area except towards 

 costa and some yellow on middle of termen, the inner edge of the 

 dark area curved inwards round the reniform and bent inwards 

 below the cell; subbasal liue represented by two dark points on 

 costa and a greenish yellow spot in cell; antemedial line diffu 



en ish yellow with dark mark at costa ; orbicular . point, 



the reniform slightly defined by black except below and with some 



mish in centre, elliptical ; postmedial line with dark mark at 

 cost;:, oblique olive line to vein 6, then indistinct, rufous, incui 

 below vein I and slightly angled outwards al vein 1 ; Bubterminal 

 line yellow, interrupted, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then 

 bent inwards and obliquely waved to tornus: a terminal - 

 small black snots excepl towards tornus, Blightly defined on inner 



by white ; cilia yellow mixed with rufous and with purp 

 fusions patches above middle and al tornus. Hind wing 

 yellow, the termen suffused with brown; cilia yellow I ivith 



brown towards apex. 



vol. x. 3 c 



