716 NOCTtriD^. 



6082. Hoplotarache dispar. (Plate CLXX. figs. 30 d, 31 ? .) 

 Acontia dispar, Wlk. xii. 790 (1857). 



(S . Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi at tips, -a bar across 

 frons, antennte, and a patch on vertex of head blackish ; meta- 

 thorax with blackish marks at sides ; tibiae and tarsi banded black 

 and white ; abdomen orange with slight fuscous dorsal bands, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing creamy white ; subbasal line 

 olive-grey, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line olive-grey, double, waved ; an olive-grey medial band 

 from costa to median nervure towards which it is obsolescent ; a 

 black discoidal striga ; a small oblique wedge-shaped olive-grey 

 postmedial spot on costa ; terminal area olive-grey shading to 

 silvery purple suffused with red, its inner edge slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 6 and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial 

 line slight, whitish, minutely waved, arising at vein 6, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 and with two black and silvery blue marks 

 before it on inner area ; a white point on costa before the sub- 

 terminal line, which is slight, white, interrupted, defined on inner 

 side by red marks and black marks above and below vein 6, ex- 

 curved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved and bent outwards 

 to tornus ; a terminal series of black lunules with some white 

 before them above tornus ; cilia brown with a white patch above 

 tornus and white tips towards apex. Hind wing orange with 

 black-brown terminal band and black points on term on ; cilia 

 orange, black at base towards apex ; the underside with black 

 discoidal spot, postmedial spots from costa to vein 5, some whitish 

 at apex, a terminal maculate band from apex to vein 4. and some 

 spots towards tornus. 



5 . Thorax mostly suffused with grey-brown ; fore wing with 

 the basal area suffused with olive-brown leaving the lines whitish, 

 the medial band conjoined to the dark area ; hind wing with the 

 terminal band rather more diffused leaving some orange on termen 

 towards tornus. 



Hah. Transvaal (Pead), 2 5 ; Natal, Newcastle, 1 (S , Durban 

 (Kraus, IVimen, Leigh), 4 $ type ; Bastjtoland, Maseru (Craw- 

 shay), 3 d ; Cape Colony, Grahamstown, 1 § . Exp. 30-34 

 millim. 



6083. Hoplotarache viridifera, n. sp. (Plate CLXX. fig. 32.) 



5 . Head fuscous with a few white scales ; thorax creamy white 

 with a fuscous line across mesothorax and lateral fuscous bars on 

 metathorax ; fore legs fuscous, the tarsi ringed with white, the mid 

 and hind tarsi with fuscous rings; abdomen white dorsally suffused 

 with rufous. Fore wing creamy white ; a small patch of blue- 

 grey scales near base of costa and a large patch before the ante- 

 medial line which is blackish and obliquely excurved from costa to 

 median nervure, then sap-green, sinuous, and with a patch of green 

 scales before it above inner margin ; orbicular small, rounded, very 



