78-4 XOCTUID^E. 



with white except towards apex and tornus ; a fine white line 

 just hefore termen ; cilia white, tinged with purplish towards apex 

 and with a series of purple-grey points near base. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, the veins tinged with brown, the termen 

 suffused with brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white, 

 sometimes with slight brown spots on costa beyond middle and at 

 apex. 



Hah. Punjab, Simla {Harford), 1 §> Rawal Pindi, 1 <j> , 

 Campbellpur (Yerbury), 1 5, Wazeerabad (Hearsey), 2^,2$ 

 type; Bengal, Calcutta (Hocking), 1 <$ . Exp. 34-36 millim. 



6132. Tarache hortensis. 



Acontia hortensis, Swiuh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 517, pi. 47. f. 7 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths lud. ii. p. 311. 



cJ . Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous grey ; fore 

 tibiae and the tarsi brownish ringed with white ; abdomen white 

 tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white, the base slightly tinged 

 with grey ; a subbasal black spot in cell ; antemedial line fuscoas, 

 double, waved, somewhat interrupted ; orbicular absent ; terminal 

 area purple-grey largely suffused with red -brown, its inner edge 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; reniform 

 incompletely defined by black ; a quadrate postmedial white patch 

 on costa, the postmedial line arising from it, black slightly defined 

 on outer side by white, angled inwards at discal fold, strongly 

 incurved below veiu 4 and slightly excurved at vein 1 ; sub- 

 terminal line white defined on inner side by brown, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved and bent outwards to 

 tornus, some white beyond it below apex and at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black striae and a spot above tornus ; cilia purplish brown 

 with a white patch above tornus. Hind wing white, the costal 

 area towards apex and the termen to vein 2 suffused with brown ; 

 the underside with two postmedial yellow-brown bars from costa 

 and a mark at apex. 



$ . Fore wing with the basal area more suffused with grey ; 

 hind wing wholly suffused with reddish brown, darker towards 

 termen. 



Hah. Sudan, Suakim (Fletcher), 1 3 ; Sokotea, Hadibu Plains 

 (0.-Grant),2 <$ ; Sind, Karachi (Swinhoe), 1 $ type. Exp. 24-26 

 millim. 



6183. Tarache niphogona. 



Tarache niphogona Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 109, pi. iv. f. 17 

 (1909). 



$ . Head dark brown, the palpi white except at tips ; thorax 

 creamy white with a few black scales at sides of metathoracic 

 crest ; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brownish ochreous with slight dark dorsal segmental lines, the 



