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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 from well above angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



ECTOLOPHA VIBIDESCENS, n. sp. 



2 . Head and tegulse whitish, the palpi, frons, and a streak on 

 vertex fuscous ; antennae brown ; thorax yellow-green ; abdomen 

 whitish with dorsal segmental orange lines or dorsally suffused with 

 orange. Porewing yellow-green, the costa streaked with fuscous ; a 

 fuscous patch on middle of costa usually present ; a yellowish white 

 patch on middle of inner margin edged with rufous ; the postmedial 

 line fuscous, oblique from costa to vein 6, curved and dentate to 

 vein 2, then strongly incurved and rufous where it traverses the 

 yellowish patch, a fuscous patch beyond lower angle of cell on inner 

 side of the line ; traces of a minutely dentate subterminal line often 

 with some small whitish spots on it towards apex ; cilia fuscous. 

 Hindwing fuscous, yellowish white at base and on inner area. 



Hab. British East Africa, Kikuyu (Crawshay) ; Mashonaland. 

 Sahsbury (Marshall). Exjd. 40 mill. Type in B.M. 



Genus TAEACHE. 



Type. 

 Tarac/ie, Hiibn. Verz. p. 261 (1827) lucida. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches. 



(1) Tarache annulella, n. sp. 



"White ; palpi, lower part of frons, antennae , and abdomen tinged 

 with red-brown ; tibiae and tarsi brown. Forewing irrorated with a 

 few large brown scales ; the basal half of costa streaked with brown ; 

 an antemedial brown patch on inner margin ; the orbicular lunulate, 

 indistinct, its centre tinged with yellow ; a red-brown lunule before 

 and below the inverted-comma-shaped reniform ; the terminal area 

 tinged with ochreous ; three minute black annuli on costa towards 

 apex ; an oblique rufous patch from apex with an indistinct dentate 

 line arising from it and a blackish mark beyond it on inner area ; the 

 termen rufous with irregularly sinuous pale subterminal line. Hind- 

 wing yellowish white suffused with brown and with indistinct waved 

 brown postmedial line. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Cape Colony, Heald 

 Town (Miss P. Barrett). Exp. 24-30 mill. 



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