TARACHB. 7- 1 



61 13. Tarache acerba. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 26.) 



va acerba, II. Edw. Papilio, i. p. _! \:,,. 



p. 302. 



Head and thorax black-brown glossed with leaden grey • abdomen 

 dark greyish brown. Fore wing black brown glossed with leaden 

 grey, the costal area mare or less prominently and sometimes the 

 terminal area especially towards tornus irrorated with pale grey; 

 traces of a curved antemedial line formed of black scales ; reniform 

 faintly denned by grey, small, elliptical, an indistinct oblique dari 

 bar to it from costa ; postmedial line dark and oblique from i 

 to vein <>, then formed of black scales, Btrongly incurved below 

 vein I and slightly angled outwards at vein [• subterminal line 

 represent eil by a few black scales or define,) by grey suffusion 

 beyond it ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark red- 

 brown, the cilia greyish with a brown line near base. 



Hab. IS. A., California, 1 $, Rouge R. (Walsingham), 5 d , 

 4 $ • %>• 20-22 millim. 



61-14. Tarache nubilata. (Plate CIXX II. fig. 27.) 



Tarache nuhilata, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 390 (1902). 

 <3 . Head and thorax white, the tips of tegulae and the thorax 

 tiuged with purplish brown ; fore tibise and tarsi brown slightly 

 ringed with white; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing creamy white mostly suffused with pale purplish and 

 olive-brown; an oblique brown shade from base of costa al 

 median nervure to the antemedial line, which is very ind 

 double, oblique from costa to median nervure where it is angled, 

 then inwardly oblique ; orbicular and reniform with their centres 

 slightly defined by brown and incomplete white annuli, round, the 



:er with short white fascia before it ; an indistinct obli 

 olive-brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; ; 

 medial line with white patch before and hey,. ml it on costa, olive- 

 brown, excurved from below costa to vein l.then incurved and with 

 raised black scales on it : subterminal Hue very indistinct, whitish. 



irved below vein 7 and at middle, then very Btrongly incurved 

 and defined on outer side by red-brown followed by yellowish : a 

 terminal series of blackish points except towards tornus defined on 

 inner side by a white line; cilia red-brown mixed with whitish 

 and with rather darker patches at discal and Bubmedian folds. 



Hind wing very pale yellow, the termen slightly tinged w it li rtlf 

 cilia yellowish white with a rufous line through them ; the under- 

 side with Blight rufous discoidal Iunule. 



Hab. Natal, Durban . ■ . I J type. Exp. 28 millim. 



