MOTHS FROM SOMALILAND. 121 



6081. HOPLOTARACHE NUBILA HmpSll. 



1908: Sept. 21 --1 §. 



6081 a. HoPLOTARACHE ECTORRIDA, Sp. 11. (PI. I. fig. 36, ($ •) 



Hoplotarache nuhila, ab. 1, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. 

 X. p. 715. 



S . Head and thorax white, the dorsum of thorax with black 

 scales mixed except in front ; antenn£e fuscous ; palpi black 

 at tips, the frons with lateral black bai\s ; tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen creamy white with dorsal fuscous segmental 

 bands, the ventral surface white. Fore wing white ; subbasal 

 line defined on eachi side by grey, sinuous, from, costa to median 

 nervure ; grey streaks on costa and above vein 1 before the 

 antemedial line, which is defined on each side by grey, waved, 

 some grey beyond it below median nervure; small dark grey 

 annuli in middlei of cell and on discocellulars ; an oblique dark 

 grey striga from middle of costa, spot above median nervure 

 and waved black line from cell to inner margin; an oblique 

 dark grey postmedial striga fi'om costa, two black striae beyond 

 the cell with some grey before them and a waved black line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the terminal area 

 chocolate-brown, leaving an oblique wedge-shaped white patch 

 on costal area beyond the postmedial line and below the cell 

 extending to the medial line ; subterminal line white with 

 two small wedge-shaped black inarks before it below costa, 

 excurved below costa and at middle, then incurved and slightly 

 waved, and with black max^ks beyond it above and below vein 2 ; 

 a terminal series of small black spots defined on inner -side by 

 white; cilia wholly white at middle, red-bi-own at base, with 

 white tips towards apex and dark leaden-grey tips at discal 

 fold and towards tornus and with slight blackish line through 

 them. Hind wing white ; the vmderside with brown spots at 

 middle of costa and apex and postmedial bar from costa. 



5 . Dorsum of thorax grey and black ; abdomen red-brown •; 

 fore wing with more grey sufi'usion on the white area ; hind 

 wing red-brown, the cilia white at tips ; tliB underside white 

 sxifFused with brown, a brown discoidal bar and postmedial line 

 excurved beyond the cell. 



1908: Nov. 19,-1 $. 1909: Apr. 6,-1 $ ; Apr. 8,-1 c?, 

 1 2 (types); Apr. 9,-1 $ ; Apr. 10,-2 $ ; Apr. 14,-- 1 $ ; 

 May 7,-1 $ 1 May 9,-1 $ . 



Also in the British Museum from Br. E. Africa, Athi Valley 

 (Crawshay), 1 c? . Uxp. 20 millim. 



6081 b. Hoplotarache c.eruleopicta, s,p. n. (PI. I. fig. 37, c? •) 



S . Head, thorax, aiad abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white, the 

 fore and mid tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore 

 wing with the basal half creamy white, the terminal half olive- 



