HOPLOTAKACHE. 715 



Hah. Egypt, Libyan desert in Coll. de Joannis ; SiifD, Karachi 

 (SwinJioe), 1 c5' , 5 $ type ; Bombay, Kutch, 1 (S . Exp. 22-24 

 millim. 



6081. Hoplotarache nubila, n. sp. (Plate CLXX. fig. 29.) 



6 . Head and thorax pure white, the tegulse and prothoras some- 

 times with a few black scales, the metathorax with black-brown 

 patcb ; palpi at tips, frons, and anteiinse blackish, the scales in 

 frontal prominence ochreous ; legs white mixed with brown, the 

 fore tibi^ and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen white 

 dorsally tinged with ochreous brown and with brown segmental 

 bands. Fore wiug purple-grey with some olive-brown suffusion 

 in and beyond the cell, the costal area white to postmedial line with 

 five olive-brown bars from costa, the basal area suffused with white 

 in submedian interspace ; subbasal line represented by a white 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line iudistinctly double filled in 

 with white, sinuous ; orbicular and reniform small, with greyish 

 centres and slight dark brown annuli defined by white, the former 

 round ; an oblique sinuous blackish medial line from cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line arising at vein 6, formed of small black 

 lunules defined on outer side by grey, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 and slightly angled outwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 slight, white defined on inner side by small dentate brown marks 

 and by a black mark below costa, minutely waved, slightly ex- 

 curved below vein 7 and at middle, then bent inwards and oblique 

 to tornus ; terminal area with some white suffusion at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black striae slightly defined by white on inner 

 side ; cilia brown with a few black scales, and white patches below 

 apex and at middle. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and 

 terminal areas suffused with brown ; a brown discoidal point ; 

 cilia white, tinged with brown at base ; the underside with post- 

 medial line excurved at discal fold. 



2 . Hind wing wholly suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. c? . Fore wing with the basal half white, the double 

 brown subbasal and antemedial lines distinct, the latter with some 

 blue-grey beyond it below the cell, the subterminal line with 

 black marks beyond it below apex and veins 3, 2. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Taveta {liogers), 1 § , TsaYO (Gregory), 1 5 , 

 Athi Yalley {Craivslmy), 1 c? , Eb Urru (Be.tton), 2 J , 3 $ type ; 

 Transvaal, Warmbad (Janse), 2 $ . Exp. 20-26 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell. 



A. Fore wing white with dark markings. 



a. Hind wing orange dispar. 



b. Hind wing white. 



a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line defined by green 



on inner side viridlfera. 



b'^. Fore wing without green mionides. 



B. Fore wing uniform orange-yellow holoxantha, 



C. Fore wing uniform creamy white sordescens. 



