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brown, angled outwards below costa, tben waved, some brown 

 sufFasion before it on inner area with two blackish marks on it ; 

 medial area suffused with purplish grey and with blackish beyond 

 the cell ; reniform represented by a slight black lunule ; a blackish 

 medial line, oblique to upper extremity of reniform, strongly 

 excurved beyond the cell and incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial 



Fig. 116. — Frotarache eulcpidea, J. |-. 



line double, black filled in with white and some pinkish, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 

 4, then incurved ; subterminal line white, defined on inner side by 

 red-brown suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, angled 

 inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 3 and bent outwards to 

 tornus, the area beyond it irrorated with grey ; a terminal series 

 of slight black striae ; cilia brownish and white. Hijid wing 

 reddish brown ; cilia yellowish white mixed with brown ; the 

 underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal 

 bar. 



Hah. CErLON, Puttalam {Pole), 1 c? , 2 $ type. Ex]i. 22millim. 



5570. Protarache melaphora, n. sp. (Plate CLX. fig, 2.) 



Tarache euhfidea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 389 (part.). 



5 . Head and thorax white tinged with rufous ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with ochreous brown. Eore wing whitish suffused 

 with rufouB ; a diffused patch of raised black scales in and below 

 the cell before the very indistinct sinuous whitish antemedial line ; 

 medial area leaden grey with a blackish tinge beyond the cell ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double filled in with whitish, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; 

 subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by rufous 

 suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, the area beyond it 

 irrorated with grey ; a terminal series of slight black striae ; cilia 

 white and grey with a slight dark line at middle. Hind wing 

 reddish brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line at middle ; the 

 underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a terminal series of 

 blackish striae. 



Hah. Eechuanaland, N'Gami (Lugard), 1 5 • Ex})^ 22 millim. 



*5571. ? Protarache gladiola. (Plate CLX. fig. 3.) 

 Chamadea gladiola, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxix, p. 67 (1907). 

 Head brown ; thorax white, the tegulse yellowish at base, the 



