rAHACHE. 



to tornus and leaving some orange before the dark terminal line ; 

 cilia rut'ous at base, white at tips. 



ffab. IMiaraland, type f 2 in ^ lls - Stockbolm. Exp. 34 

 millira. 



6155. Tarache umbrigera. (Plate CLXXIII. figs. 2 rf , 3 $ .) 



Arontia umbrigera, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f.34 (1874). 

 Acontia trimaculata, Auriv. CEfv. Ak. Fori), xxxvi. (7) p. 60 (187' 



Head white, the antenna? brown ; tegulse and patagia white, the 

 tips of former and upper edge of latter brownish ; vertex of thorax 

 brownish with a fine white dorsal line; tarsi brown ringed with 

 wliite ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown except towards 

 extremity. Fore wing purplish grey suffused in parts with olive- 

 green : a silvery white patch with curved upper edge on basal half 

 of inner area with two slight subbasal white striae from it to costa 

 followed by a very slight obliquely curved line ; an oblique quadrate 

 silvery white patch from costa before middle, extending to just 

 below cell, its extremity produced to a point below the reniform, 

 which is a small lunule faintly defined by silvery blue and at- 

 tenuated below; a truncate conical silvery white postmedial patch 

 from costa to vein 6, the indistinct dark postmedial line with very 

 slight blue-white line on its outer edge arising from it, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 ; a white subterminal line, obsolescent 

 towards costa, below vein 5 produced as short streaks on the veins 

 to a fine white line just before termen enclosing a series of spots 

 not quite reaching the apex, the subterminal line ending on termen 

 at vein 1 ; cilia brown on apical half, white towards tornus. Hind 

 wing white, the termen suffused with reddish brown narrowing 

 a point at vein 2, in female wholly tinged with brown ; cilia wliite ; 

 the underside white with traces of two brownish postmedial bars 

 from costa and the apex brownish. 



Hab. Be. E. Afeica (Gregory), 1 3 ; Angola, Kinsembo, 1 $ ; 

 Damaealand ; Bechuanaland, N 1 'Garni (Lugard), 1 c? , 2 $ ; 

 Cape Colony, Murraysburg. Exp. 32-36 millim. Type t tr 

 lata in Mus. Stockholm. 



6156. Tarache catenula. (Plate CLX XIII. fig. 4. | 



Eitpkasia catenula, Wlk. xxxiii. 780(1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 31*2. 



Head and thorax white dorsally suffused with wn ; tarsi 



brownish ringed with white ; abdomen whit< 1 with 



red-brown. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with wn ; 

 an oblique white streak on basal part of vein 1 : an 

 band from costa before middle to just below median nervure, 



extremity produced to a point at lower angle of cell ; a quad] 



white postmedial patch from costa to vein 6, its inn< i slightly 



angled below the costa. the rather punctiform black postmedial 



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