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Hab. West Africa, Accra ; British East Africa, Sabaki Valley ; 

 Natal, Isilpingo (Marshall), Durban (Gooch, Leigh, Trimen). 

 Ex2}. 32 mill. 



(9) Taeache chbysoproctis, n. sp. 



<y . Head black; palpi white below; thorax pure white, tibiae 

 and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white with fuscous dorsal 

 bands, the anal tuft orange. Porewing white ; two short blue-grey 

 subbasal lines ; two waved pale green antemedial lines followed by a 

 green patch on costa and short streak above median nervure ; a black 

 discoidal point ; a small triangular green postmedial spot on costa ; 

 the terminal area purple-grey shading to sap-green on its inner edge, 

 which is slightly angled inwards at vein 5 where it is joined by a 

 short green striga, at vein 3 angled inwards to middle ; a medial 

 black spot below vein 2 ; an indistinct waved black subterminal line 

 with some blue-grey irroration beyond it and a black spot on inner 

 margin ; a white patch on termen below middle and cilia from middle 

 to just above tornus. Hindwing pure white with terminal black 

 band narrowing from costa to a point at vein 1 ; the under side with 

 postmedial spot on costa. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exj). 36 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



(10) Taeache caffraeia, Cram. Pap. Bxot. ii. p. 82, pi. 174 P. (1779), 

 Acontia komaga, Peld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108, f. 33 (1874;. 



Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), Durban (Bowker, Leigh) ; 

 Cape Colony, Knysna, Capetown (Trimen). Exp. 36 miU. 



(11) Taeache antica, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 90 (1862). 

 Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 24 mill. 



(12) Taeache teiph^noides, Wllgrn. Autecku. i. Zool. i. p. 59 



(1856). 



Acontia liturifera, Wlk. xxxiii. 784 (1865). 



trimenii, Wllgrn. (Efv. Ak. Porh. 1875, p. 110. 



Hab. Mashonaland, SaHsbury (Marshall) ; Transvaal (Mar- 

 shall) ; Natal, Newcastle, Estcourt (Hutchinson); Cape 

 Colony, Annshaw (Miss P. Barrett). Exp. 34-38 mill. 



(13) Taeache hypeelophia, n. sp. 



(? . Head and thorax white ; palpi at extremity, a band across 

 frons and antennae black ; metathorax with a tuft of glossy black 

 scales ; abdomen yellow with short dorsal black bands and lateral 



