TAR A riir.. 783 



6180. Tarache gradata. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 23. | 

 Acontia gradata, Wlk. xii. 788 (1857 . 



Head black, the palpi -white except at bips ; thorax creamy 

 white with slight black marks at sides of d I pax ; tibiae and 

 tarsi banded black and white; abdomen white, dorsally tii 

 with yellow except at base, and with slight brownish ntal 



lines. Fore wing creamy white ; subbasal line grey, double, waved, 

 from costa to suhmedian fold; antemedial line grey, double, 

 waved ; orbicular represented by a few black scales ; reniforra 

 incompletely defined by black, hoop-shaped, open below, a grey 

 bar from costa before it; an oblique postmedial grey bar from 

 costa: terminal area silvery purple with some olive mi its inner 

 edge, which is angled inwards at vein 6 to near the reniform and 

 strongly incurved below vein 4; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 double, minutely waved, incurved below vein 4 and with two 

 black and silvery blue marks before it on inner area; a white 

 point on costa before the subterminal line, which is represented by 

 slight dark marks with a white point at costa and slight white 

 marks beyond them on inner half, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle and bent outwards to torn us ; a terminal series of black 

 strhe slightly defined by white towards tornus ; cilia purple-grey 

 with yellowish white patch ahove tornus. Hind wing orar. 

 yellow with terminal brown band from apex to vein l' ; cilia 

 creamy white with some fuscous at base towards apex ; the under- 

 side with the costal area whitish, a small blackish discoidal - 

 patch on middle of costa, curved punctiform postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 4, and patch on apical part of termen. 



//"A. Cape Colony (Dreye), 1 6 type. Grahamstown, 1 $. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



6181. Tarache notabilis. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 24.) 



aphasia notabilis, Wlk. xi. 669 (1857 ETmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 311. 



. Head and thorax white, the latter faintly tinged with 

 on dorsum ; antennae fuscous; fore legs and the tarsi fua 

 ringed with white; abdomen white with slighl dorsal brownish 

 hands. Fore wing creamy white; a slight waved black Bubb 

 line from costa to suhmedian fold, more or less reduced to poi 

 amemedial line represented by an oblique wedge-shaped mark 

 from costa and usually one or more points in suhmedian int. 

 an ohlique quadrate spot from middle of costa ; terminal 

 olive-brown shading to purple-grey, its inner edge angled '■• 

 vein 7 and incurved below the cell; postmedial line 

 excurved to vein 4. then incurved; suhtenninal 1 

 elongate black marks beyond it from c a 5 and a black 



lunule ahove tornus, dentate, and with th 



