772 N0CTUID2E. 



the dorsum dark brown, the tibiae and tarsi banded red-brown and 

 white; abdomen yellow, the base and ventral surface whitish, 

 dorsal and lateral series of black bars. Fore wing creamy white ; 

 a dark red-brown fascia tinged with leaden grey on base of costa, 

 ending in an oblique bar to middle of cell with some yellowish on 

 its outer edge ; a rufous postmedial striga from costa ; an oblique 

 deep chocolate-red band from apex to inner margin before tornus, 

 its edges sinuous, some olive on its inner edge from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line silvery blue, arising at vein 6, minutely 

 waved, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by a 

 series of silvery blue spots; a series of black points just before 

 termen; cilia brown with a grey gloss on apical half, yellowish 

 white towards tornus. Hind wing pale yellow with some brown 

 spots on apical part of termen ; cilia yellowish white ; the under- 

 side wholly yellow. 



2 . Fore wing w 7 ith the antemedial bar curved and extending to 

 submediafl fold; hind wing with irregular brown band from apex 

 to vein 2 and spot in submediau fold. 



Hab. U.S.A., 1 S , 1 $ r ') 7 P e > New Jersey and south to Florida 

 and Texas. Exp. 34 millim. 



Larva. Weeks, Ent. Am. iv. p. 4<i ; Beuten. Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. iv. p. 68. 



Head brown with irregular black spots. Body enlarged before 

 the middle, without feet on joints 7 and 6 ; brown with black 

 tubercles and a row of white subventral spots. Food-plant : 

 Hibiscus. — H. G. D. 



6161. Tarache olivacea. 



Cilix olivacea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 63, pi. 142. f. 9 (1891); id. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 313. 



Head and tegulae olive-brown ; thorax white tinged with brown ; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing with the basal 

 and costal areas silvery white, the costa itself olive-brown, the 

 apical area tinged with yellow, the rest of wing olive-brown suf- 

 fused with some blue-white and edged above \>y diffused yellow ; 

 traces of a brownish discoidal lunule defined by white ; postmedial 

 line whitish defined on each side by some yellowish, oblique, sinuous, 

 from discal fold to inner margin : some oblique white striae from 

 costa towards apex ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules defined 

 on inner side by a waved white line ; cilia white tinged with 

 brown. Hind wing olive-brown, the basal area in female whitish ; 

 cilia whitish at tips ; the underside white tinged and irrorated 

 with brown, a brown discoidal lunule and terminal line. 



Hab. C.China, Shanghai (Fryer), 3 d 1 ; Madras, Nilgiris (7/rt mp- 

 sori), 1 2 typ e ; Christmas I. (Andrews), 1 tf . Exp. 20 -26 millim. 



