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NOCTUID^. 



5 . Thorax and basal area of fore wing much more suffused 

 with grey. 



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Genus AULOTARACHE, nov. 



Type, A. decorvpennis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, short ; frons wit,!! 

 rmmded prominence with transverse groove vritli raised edges across the 

 middle and corneous plate belovr it ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 

 somevrhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; thora.x clothed almost entirely 

 with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metatborax with decumbent crest ; 

 tibia smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veias 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form a longitudinally narrow areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 

 (3, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



6091. Aulotarache decoripennis. 



Tarache decoripennis, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 728. 



o . Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi at tips, a bar across 

 frons, and the antennae red-brown ; fore tibiae and the tarsi red- 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen yellowish white with red- 

 brown dorsal bands. Fore wing yellowish white ; subbasal line 

 pale olive, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, the outer 

 line forming a patch at costa; antemedial line pale olive, minutely 

 waved ; orbicular and reniform very small, the former faintly 

 defined at sides only, the latter with elliptical blackish annulus ; 



Fig. 207. — Aulotarache decoripennis, (^ . 



an olive striga from middle of costa ; terminal area red-brown 

 mixed with some purplish grey ; the postmedial line represented by 

 an olive striga from costa on the white area and an interrupted 

 sinuous black line on the dark area, very strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminnal line yellowish white, interrupted, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at discal fold and 

 twice in submedian interspace ; a terminal series of black points 

 defined on inner side by white striae ; cilia with patches of white 



