384 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Frons with truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity. 

 a. Frontal prominence long, its lower edge produced to a point. 



(2) Tarache sphendonistis, n. sp. 



5 . Head black ; palpi white below ; thorax pure white ; tibiae and 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white with fuscous dorsal lines, 

 the anal tuft ochreous. Forewing white ; the basal area with 

 numerous blue-grey splotches ; triangular black medial and post- 

 medial spots on costa; a black hoop open below just beyond the 

 cell ; the terminal area olive- and grey-brown, its inner edge angled 

 inwards at vein 6 nearly to the hoop and at vein 2 to before middle 

 of wing; the postmedial line indistinct and dentate beyond the cell, 

 below the cell bent inwards to middle of wing and black with some 

 cupreous scales on its outer edge; the subterminal line indistinct 

 dentate, bent inwards and cupreous below vein 2, with a white point 

 at costa, some white irroration below apex and below middle a dis- 

 integrated white patch on termen and cilia ; a terminal series of 

 black lunules with two spots at apex and one above tornus. Hind- 

 wing brownish black with white postmedial spot on costa ; cilia 

 white, fuscous at apex ; under side white with obsolescent fuscous 

 antemedial band, discoidal spot, maculate postmedial band excurved 

 beyond cell and the terminal area black. 



Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Basutoland, Maseru (Craw- 

 shay). Exp. 40 mill. Type in B.M. 



b. Frontal prominence short, its lower edge not produced, 

 a'. Frontal prominence large. 



(3)*Tarache accola, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108, f. 22 (1874), 

 Hab. Cape Colony, Capetown. Exp. 30 mill. 



6'. Frontal prominence minute. 



(4)"Taeache semiplumbea, n. sp. 



? . Head, tegulae, and outer part of patagia white ; antennae 

 brown except towards base ; thorax fuscous brown ; abdomen dor- 

 sally brown, ventrally white. Forewing white, the inner half dark 

 leaden grey to the broad oblique subterminal band with irregularly 

 sinuous edges, the inner area expanding into a small spot in middle 

 of cell ; three points on costa ; a terminal series of black points and 

 a black patch on cilia above middle. Hindwing white tinged with 

 brown, especially towards tei^men ; cilia white ; the under side white 



