792 NocTiriDiE. 



Ab.'l. Fore wing with, the upper part of reniform produced and 

 emitting two black streaks intersecting the triangular part. 



Bab. Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu (Crawshatj), 1 <3 , 1 $, Machakos 

 (Crawshay), 1 tf; Gazaland, Melsetter {Marshall), 1 $ type; 

 Zulttland, Lr. Tugela (Reynolds), 1 $ ; Natal, Haritzburg 

 (Burnup), 1 $ . Exp. 32-36 millim. 



*6192. Tarache dimidata. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 32.) 



Acontia dimidata, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 208 (1905). 



5 . Head and tegulae fuscous mixed with some white ; palpi fuscous, 

 the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; thorax ochreous white, 

 the fore and mid tibiae and the tarsi blackish ringed with white; 

 abdomen ochreous white dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing 

 with the basal half ochreous white ; some brown at base of costa ; 

 a subbasal black point on costa followed by a whitish spot, then a 

 triangular brown patch and a slight subbasal black lunule in cell ; 

 an antemedial black point on costa ; terminal half blackish brown 

 tinged with grey and defined on inner side by the sinuous black 

 medial line ; reniform leaden grey with very slight white annulus 

 faintly defined by black, elliptical ; postmedial line slight, black 

 defined on outer side by silvery grey, obliquely curved from costa to 

 vein 6, very slightly angled inwards at discal fold, incurved and 

 sinuous below vein 4 ; some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line slight, black, defined on inner side by yellowish white 

 except towards costa and forming a patch at discal fold, and on 

 outer side by silvery grey, slightly angled outwards at veins 7,~6 

 and excurved at middle ; a fine black terminal line defined on inner 

 side by a white line except towards tornus ; cilia with whitish 

 patches at apex and above tornus. Hind wing ochreous white 

 ringed with brown ; a fine black terminal line except towards 

 tornus ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside white, the costal half 

 irrorated with brown, the inner half tinged with ochreous, a dark 

 discoidal point, 



Hub. U.S.A., Arizona, Yavapai Co., $ in Coll. J. B. Smith, 

 Bedington. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus EUGEAPHIA. 



Type. 



Eugraphia, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 208 (1852) irretita. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons which is smooth ; 

 eyes large, round; antennaj of male somewhat laminate and almost simple; 

 thorax clothed with hair overlying scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly 

 scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully 

 developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



