392 Annals of the South African Museum. 



(31) Tarache connectens, n. sp. 



? . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and fuscous ; pectus 

 and legs whitish, fore tibiae and the tarsi banded with black ; abdo- 

 men brown, whitish below. Forewing clothed with white, grey, and 

 brown scales ; a slight black streak in base of submedian fold ; the 

 antemedial line represented by an oblique striga from costa and 

 slight streaks in cell and above and below vein 1 ; a prominent 

 streak in medial part of submedian fold connecting the ante- and 

 post-medial lines ; orbicular defined above by black and connected 

 with the black inner edge of the reniform, which is otherwise obso- 

 lete, by a black streak ; the postmedial line excurved from costa to 

 vein 3, then strongly incurved and at vein 4 traversed by a black 

 streak. Hindwing white, the marginal areas strongly tinged with 

 brown. 



Hah. N'Gamiland (Lugard). Exj). 28 mill. Type in B.M. 



AUCTORUM. 



Acontia guttistrigata, Wlk. xxxiii. 784 



(1865). Type lost South Africa. 



Genus HYELA. 



Type. 

 Hyela, Steph. Cat. Lep. Brit. B.M. p. 149 (1850) U7icula. 



A. Forewing without white streak on median nervure tristigmatias. 



B. Forewing with white streak on median nervure. 



a. Forewing with the basal area dark albifissa. 



b. Forewing with the basal area ochreous white albibasis. 



(1) Hyela tristigmatias, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with fuscous. Eorewing 

 pale yellowish brown, the basal area irrorated with fuscous ; the 

 medial area wholly suffused with fuscous except inner area ; a highly 

 sinuous double antemedial black line ; the orbicular rounded with 

 pale brownish centre and black edges; the reniform rounded, slightly 

 constricted at middle with pinkish centre and black outline, an 

 indistinct line oblique from costa to its inner side, incurved below 

 it and slightly angled outwards on vein 1 ; the postmedial line 

 dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, and incurved below 

 vein 3 ; a dentate subterminal line with a dentate band of fuscous 

 suffusion beyond it. Hindwing brown, suffused with fuscous with a 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line more distinct on under 

 side ; cilia pale brown. 



