Australian, and African Heterocera. 53 



outer margin : liind winga dull wliite, with a rather broad, 

 grey, muiginal liaiid. 



Expanse of winga 1 ,'o inch. 



El) Urru, British EuHt Africa (Helton) (type in B. M.). 



The fore wings longer than usual in the genua. 



Family AcontiidaB. 

 Euldemma acarodes, nov. 



cJ . Palpi, frons, head, and fore part of the thorax pure 

 wlute, rest of the thorax, abdomen, and winga pale greyish, 

 veins on both wings darker grey : fore wings with the costal 

 lino dark groy ; a very broad, dark pink, oblique band, occu- 

 pying more than half the outer portion of the wing, ita inner 

 margin dark grey and well defined, its outer margin suffused 

 with the dark grey colour of the outer margin of the wing : 

 hind wings without markings. Underside : body, legs, and 

 wings white : fore w'ings suffused with grey except for a 

 broad subcostal ochreous streak from the base for more than 

 half the length of the wing. 



Expanse of wings -,V inch. 



Bihe, W. Africa ; one example. 



•Somewhat resembling E. derogata, Walker, from Itidia. 



Tarache amydra, nov, 



(J. Palpi white, with grey bands on the last two joints; 

 head, body, and fore wings dark iron-grey ; frona white, with 

 two grey spots ; abdomen with white segmental lines : fore 

 wings with the orbicular and reniforra whitish, the former 

 containing one, the latter two dark grey spots ; the entire 

 wing picked out with many whitish marka, transverse, 

 sinuous, ante- and postmedial, and submarginal lines, and 

 some whitish dots on the costa : hind wings uniform greyish 

 white ; cilia of both wings grey, with a whitish interline. 

 Underside : fore wings uniform pale grey, with some blackish 

 and ochreous spots on the outer half of the costa ; hind winga 

 pale, with a discal curved grey line ; body and legs whitish, 

 the latter with blackish bands. 



Expanse of wings ^(^ inch. 



Bihe, W. Africa ; one example. 



Tarache apatelia, nov. 



? . White, palpi with last joints black ; the frons projec- 

 tion with two black spots touciiing each other; thorax with 



