TARACIIE. 791 



lower angle of cell to inner margin; a large pure white truncate 

 conical patch from postmedial part of costa to discal fold, its inner 

 edge excised by the reniform, its outer angled below vein 7, the 

 indistinct double minutely waved postmedial line arising from 

 its outer edge, strongly incurved below vein -1 and with a tuft 

 of blue-black scales before it in submedian fold; subterminal 

 line cupreous red, incurved below costa, then minutely waved 

 and with black spots beyond it at apex, middle, and above 

 tornus : a terminal series of minute black lunules ; cilia grey 

 intersected with black at base, rufous at tips. Hind wing pale 

 brownish ochreous, darker towards termen ; cilia white, tinged with 

 brown at apex and at base to vein 2; the underside white tinged 

 with brown, the termen suffused with brown from apex to vein 2, 

 a black discoidal spot, traces of a diffused curved postmedial line, 

 and terminal series of hlack striae. 



Hub. Transvaal, Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 $ type ; Natal, 

 Stanger (Delvin), 1 $, Bond's Drift (Reynolds), 1 $. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



6191. Tarache leucotrigona. (Plate CLXXIII. figs. 30 tf, 31 $ .) 



Tarache leucotrigona, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mas. iii. p. 436 (190.")). 



d . Head whitish suffused with grey-brown or pinkish, the palpi 

 white below; thorax white suffused with grey-brown except the 

 tegula3 ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and the tarsi brown 

 ringed with white; abdomen brownish white with brown dorsal 

 segmental bands. Fore wing white, the basal area suffused with 

 olive-grey or pinkish; Bubbasal Hue white, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold; antemedial line white, waved; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a few black scales, the reniform slightTj defined by black. 

 hoop-shaped, open below* ; terminal area olive green .-hading to d 

 purple, its inner edge running obliquely from costa beyond ante- 

 medial line to beyond lower angle of cell, then retracted to below 

 middle of cell and erect to inner margin ; a triangular white patch 

 on costa towards apex, the indistinct, minutely waved postmedial 

 line arising from its apex, with some tufts of hlack scales on it. 

 strongly incurved below vein I ; subterminal line represented by 

 ries of small dentate red marks with slight white marks on their 

 i liter side on inner half; a terminal series of hlack stria 1 slightly 

 defined by white on inner side; cilia purplish grey with whitish 

 patch at middle. Hind wing white, the Costal area, veins of 

 terminal area, and termen from apex to vein 2 suffused with brown ; 

 cilia white, brown at apex; the underside with medial and post- 

 medial brown bars from costa. 



$> . Hind wing wholly suffused with reddish brown, the cilia 



white except at apex; the underside white tinged with brown, a 



idal Bpot, diffused curved postmedial \uw, and traces ol 



terminal band. 



