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fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen grey sufiused with red-brown. 

 Fore wing ochreous brown with a gre}'ish tinge, the terminal half 

 irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line represented bj^ blackish 

 points on costa and median nervure ; anteinedial line double, the 

 inner line slight, the outer strong, black, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular 

 represented by an oblique black striga ; reniform ochreous whitish 

 defined at sides by black and its centre slightly by black scales, 

 constricted at middle ; a curved red-brown medial shade ; post- 

 medial line black defined on outer side by ochreous, bent outwards 

 below costa, strongly excurved to vein 4, then bent inwards to 

 below end of cell and angled outwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 faint, whitish, defined on inner side by a black patch at costa, then 

 by slight black spots, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia grey with a black line 

 through them. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-brown ; cilia 

 grey with a dark line near base ; the underside grey with slight 

 dark irroration, a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Qdeensland, Townsville {Dodd), type f (^ in Coll. Turner ; 

 N. AusxEALiA, Port Darwin. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus PEOTAEACHE, nov. 



Type, P. eidepidea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slight, hardly reaching to middle 

 of frons which has a large corneona prominence with raised edges and slight 

 roughened knob in centre ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the 

 metathorax with decumbent crest ; tibiaa moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not creuulate; veins Sand 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 ; 6 nearly fully 

 developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing without white patch in end of cell. 



a. Fore wing without antemedial patch of black scales below 



the cell , eidepidea. 



b. Fore wing with antemedial patch of black scales below 



the cell melaphora. 



B. Fore wing with white patch in end of cell. 



a. Fore wing with the patch in cell large, elliptical gladiola. 



b. Fore wing with the patch in cell much smalle/ and 



produced at lower extremity reqmes. 



5569. Protarache eulepidea. 



Tarache eidepidea, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 514 (1896). 



Head and thorax white mixed with some reddish brown ; palpi 

 dark brown with the extremities of 1st and 2nd joints and the 

 3rd joint whitish ; tegulae with slight medial brown line ; tarsi 

 banded with brown ; abdomen white tinged with rufous, the basal 

 crest blackish. Pore wing whitish ; the basal area irrorated with 

 brown and a few pink and black scales ; antemedial line slight, 



