762 NOCTUID.'E. 



6145. Tarache hemiglanca, n. sp. (Plate CLXXIt. fig. 28.) 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey ; palpi white at 

 base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the tibiae 

 banded with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore 

 wing grey tinged with olive-green, the postmedial area purplish 

 except towards costa ; antemedial line olive-green, indistinct, dif- 

 fused, curved ; orbicular and renit'orm grey, ill-defined, round ; post- 

 medial line indistinct and with whitish mark beyond it on costa, 

 then defined by fuscous lunules on inner side becoming a rather 

 broad shade below the cell, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by somewhat 

 dentate rufous marks, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7, and 

 at middle, angled inwards at discal fold ; a terminal series of black 

 points, except towards apex, defined on inner side by a white line ; 

 cilia whitish with a brown line through them and dark patch at 

 discal fold. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown especially 

 on terminal area ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside yellowish with dark discoidal spot and diffused post- 

 medial and terminal shades. 



Hob. Mabras, Nilgiris {Campbell), 1 5 type. Exp. 30 millim. 



6146. Tarache phaenna. 



Acontia phcerma, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het. i. p. 308, pi. 23. f. 22 

 (1889). 



$ . Head and teguloe white, the palpi at tips, frons, antennae, and 

 tips of tegulae rufous ; thorax red-brown with a purplish tinge ; 

 pectus and legs white, the tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen red- 

 brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing gi'eyish brown, the 

 terminal area chocolate-brown ; the base of costal area ochreous 

 white ; subbasal and antemedial lines absent ; an oblique white bar 

 from middle of costa ; orbicular with faint pale annulus, rounded ; 

 reniform a faint round dark mark with whitish striga on its inner 

 edge ; a slight oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line with whitish spots at costa, then dark 

 brown, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and again excurved at 

 vein 1 ; subterminal line obsolete from costa to vein 4, then chocolate- 

 brown, rather irregular and diffused, incurved, bent outwards to 

 tornus and with yellowish patch beyond it; a terminal series of 

 black stria? except towards apex and tornus, defined on inner side 

 by a few white scales ; cilia yellowish mixed with rufous and with 

 dark patch at discal fold. Hind wing red-brown, the cilia yellow 

 with a faint rufous line through them ; the underside yellow, a 

 brown discoidal spot, the termen tinged with brown. 



Hub. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), 1 5 type, God man-Sal via Coll. 

 Exp. o0 millim. 



