HOPLOTAEACHB. 717 



incompletely defined by green scales ; reniform large, irregularly 

 rounded, its centre defined by green and rufous scales and with 

 annulus on inner side only slightly defined by green scales, a pur- 

 plish grey patch above it on costa ; postmedial line black, obsolete 

 at costa, excurved below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, 

 some pale rufous before it below costa, then defined on inner side 

 bj^ sap-green becoming a strong baud from vein 4 to inner margin 

 with slight white streaks on the veins, defined on outer side by 

 rufous marks in the interspaces ; terminal area greyish purple with 

 indistinct waved rufous subterminal line defined on inner side by 

 some white scales; a terminal series of rufous points defined on 

 inner side by white scales and with more prominent striga above 

 vein 1. Hind wing semihyaline white with somewhat wedge-shaped 

 rufous marks on the extremities of the veins ; cilia white, brownish 

 at base ; the underside with the costal area and the extremities of 

 the veins tinged with rufous. 



Hah. Panama, Porto Bello Harbour (C i?. Zonr^s^a^), 1 § type. 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



6084, Hoplotarache mionides. 



Tarache mionides, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Air. Mus. iii. p. 435 (1905). 



(S . Head and thorax pure white, the metathorax reddish brown ; 

 palpi at tips and frons red-brown ; legs streaked with brown, the 

 tarsi red-brown ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing purplish grey with the basal area silvery white, 

 acutely angled outwards to lower angle of cell, the costa grey with 

 subbasal and two antemedial white strise on it ; traces of a double 

 brown antemedial line from submedian fold to inner margin ; traces 

 of an elliptical discoidal spot and of a sinuous white line from 



Fig. 204. — Hoplotarache mionides, (S . \. 



lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a large truncate conical white 

 postmedial patch from costa to vein 5 with olive-green suflusion 

 round it, its inner edge excised below, its outer angled outwards 

 at vein 6 ; a slight sinuous whitish subterminal line with a minutely 

 dentate white band beyond it with series of blackish points on it 

 and small spots below apex and above tornus. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline white with terminal reddish brown band from apex to 

 discal fold ; the underside with dark discoidal point. 



Hctb. Cape Colony, Deelfontein {Col. Sloggett), 2 d" type. Ex^, 

 28 millim. 



