tarai in:. 771 



half of cell white, the rest of wing grey Buffused with olive and 

 mixed with some iridescenl blue and violet, the violi I scales forming 

 faint antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a Blight white indentation of the dark area : reniform 



whitish; subterminal line indicated by scattered white and bluish 

 scales and a bar from tornus ; a terminal series of velvety black 

 marks; cilia-olive grey with a white patch between veins 4 and -J. 

 Hind wins: whitish with a fuscous terminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Pima Co., Baboquavaria Bits. Exp. 2 

 25 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



0159. Tarache antica. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 6.) 



Acontia antica, YVlk. Trms. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 90 (1862). 

 Tarache acontina, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. L899, p. 729. 

 Tarache semipl u mbea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. n. p. o84 (1902). 



Head and teguho white, the palpi at tips, frons, an^nnse, and 

 tips of patagia tinged with red-brown; thorax dark red-brown; 

 pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed 

 with white ; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing deep red-brown suffused with some silvery grey ; a 1 

 creamy white patch on basal costal area with a dark Buhbasal point 

 on costa ; antemedial line dark brown, bent inwards to costa ; a 

 large semicircular creamy white patch on middle of costal area 

 with a dark point at middle of costa ; tufts of dark 3 at 



middle of cell and on discocellulars ; a small white postmeilial 

 spot on costa ; postmedial line represented by a series of blackish 

 marks, arising at vein 7, and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; 

 terminal area creamy white except at apex; subterminal line 

 white and minutely dentate on costal area, then represented by 

 the contrast between the brown and white areas, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle, then incurved and bent outwards to tornus; 

 a terminal series of black points; cilia yellowish white with a 

 black spot above middle. Hind wing yellow Mi white with brown 

 discoidal spot and terminal band, in female suffused with red-brown 

 ecially towards termen ; cilia yellowish white; the underside 

 yellowish white, a dark discoidal lunule and diffused almost 

 fluent postmedial and terminal bands. 



Hah. E. Africa, type f 6 acontina in Coll. Mabille; Transvaal, 

 Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 J; Natal, Victoria Distr.( Gooch), 2 $?; 

 Cape Colony, Bedford (Weale), type t $ semiplumbea in Coll. 

 Druce. Exp. 24 U6 millim. Typef 2 i" Mus. Oxon. 



6160. Tarache delecta. ( Plate CLXX1TL 



Acontia delect . \\ ■. 7 Smith, I 



Acontia metallica. Grote, Pro i I'lul. iv. p. •' 27, pi. " i 



cf. Head and tegulae dark red-brown, the latter with lea 

 grey line near tips; palpi white at base; thorax creamy \\ 



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