768 noctuid.e. 



at apex ; a fine brown terminal line defined by white on inner side; 

 cilia white, red-brown at apes. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 termer, tinged with brown from apex to vein 2. 



Hob. Mexico, Durango (Becker), 2 $ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Kvn. 2S-32 millira. 



6153. Tarache nitidula. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 32.) 



Noctua nitidula, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 126 (1787). 



Phaltsna catena, Sowerby, Brit. Misc. p. 29, pi. 14 (1806) ; Curt. Brit. Ent. 



pi. 27fi; Steph. 111. Brit. Eat., Haust. iii. p. 116; Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 312. 

 Desmophora elegans, Steph. Cat. Brit. Ins., Lep. p. 109 (1829), non clescr. 



Head and thorax silvery white; palpi above, antennae, fore legs, 

 and the tarsi brownish ; abdomen white. Fore wing silvery white ; 

 an oblique quadrate olive-brown patch from costa near base to 

 median nervure and a triangular patch on middle of costa; the 

 terminal area broadly olive-hrown shading to purple-grey Avith the 

 indistinct dark curved postmedial line near its inner edge com- 

 mencing on the white area just below costa ; a curved white sub- 

 terminal line with very short streaks on the veins from it to a fine 

 white line just before termen enclosing a series of spots, the spot 

 above tornus being blackish ; cilia white tinged with brown at tips. 

 Hind wing white, the veins of terminal area tinged with brown ; 

 the termen suffused with brown, narrowing to tornus or confined to 

 apical area ; cilia white with a brown line through them towards 

 apex. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Accra, 1 5 ; Abyssinia, Atbara ( Gerrard), 1 J , 

 1 § ; Portuguese E. Aeeica, Beira (Sheppard), 1 <$ ; Natal, 

 Victoria Distr. (Gooch), 2 2 ; Punjab, Wuzeerabad (Hearsay), 2 J; 

 Sixn, 1 J ; Bombay, 1 $ , Kanara, 1 $ ; Madras, Coimbatore 

 ( Walhouse), 1 $ ; Burma, Thayetmyo (Watson), 1 $. Exp. 30- 

 40 millim. 



6154. Tarache vallengreni. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 1.) 



Acontia wallengrcni, Auriv. (Efv. Ak. Forb. xsxvi. (7) p. 61 (1879). 



5 . Head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen red-brown. Fore 

 wing greyish brown ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, excurved to 

 vein 1, then erect; an oblique white band from costa beyond the 

 antemedial line to median nervure at lower angle of cell ; reniform 

 with brown centre and white annulus slightly defined by black, 

 confluent with the white band ; postmedial line with oblique white 

 striga from costa, then blackish, incurved at discal fold and below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line white, slightly excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle and bent outwards to tornus, with black spots beyond it 

 below apex and above tornus; a terminal series of black stria? 

 defined on inner side by a white line; cilia white mixed with 

 rufous. Hind wing orange with terminal brown band narrowing 



