786 



xoctuid;e< 



white irroration beyond them; a terminal series of black striae 

 de lined on inner side by white at middle ; cilia brown towards apex 

 and tornus, white at middle. Hind wing white with narrow 

 terminal fuscous band from apex to vein 2 or narrowing to tornus ; 

 cilia fuscous at apex ; the underside with blackish medial and post- 

 medial bars from costa and patch at apex. 



$ . Hind wing suffused with fuscous brown leaving some white 

 in lower part of cell and on inner area, a dark discoidal bar and 

 sinuous postinedial line slightly defined by white on outer side ; the 



Fig. '210. — Tarache caffraria, <$ . \. 



underside white with discoidal point, medial bar from costa, incom- 

 plete postmedial line, and terminal band with dentate inner edge. 



A_b. 1. $ • Fore wing with the dark area extending to ante- 

 medial line ; hind wing nearly uniformly suffused with fuscous 

 brown.— -Br. E. xlfrica. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu (Orawshay), 1 $ ; Transvaal, Piet 

 Betief (Orawshay), 2 tf , Kranspan (Janse), 1 S ', Zultjland, 

 Lr. Tugela (Reynolds), 1 J, 1 $ ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 

 2 £ , Newcastle, 1 <5 , Durban (Boiuker, Leiyh), 2 $ : Cape Coloxt 

 (Sir A. Smith), 1 $ , Knysna (Trim.cn), I d" , 1 $ , Simonstowti 

 (de la Garde), 1 <$ , 1 $ , Cape Town (Trimen), 1 rf , 1 $ . Exp. 32- 

 40 millim. 



6185. Tarache lucida. 



Noctua lucida, Hufn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. .302 (1766); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



ii. p. 310 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 225. 

 Noctua solans, Sehiff. Wien. Verz. p. 90 (1776); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 88. 



ff. 2, 3 (17*8); Hubn. Eur. Schmett, Noct. ff. 307, 308; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vii. pt, 1, p. 346, pi. 121. ff. 1, 2 : Err. Neue Beitr. pi. 345. 

 Noctua aibicollis, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 218 (1781). 

 Noctua rupicola, Borkh. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. -82(1792). 

 Noctua insolatrix, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 684-5 (1822). 

 Acontia titanic/, Frr. Neue Beitr. vi. p. 84, pi. 533 (1852), nee Esp. 

 Acontia triradiata, Wlk. xii. 794 (1857). 



Acontia tnangulurn, Costa, Atti Accad. Napoli, ix. (11) p. 39 (1882). 

 Acontia. lugens, Alph. Rom. Mem. v. p. 182 (1889). 



Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with some white ; palpi 

 white except at tips ; pectus and legs white, the tibiae with brown 



