ATTtOTAEACHE. — TARACHE. 723 



below apex and at middle. Hind wing yellowish white tinged with 

 red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown, a brown 

 discoidal point ; cilia brownish at base, white at tips ; the under- 

 side yellowish with dark marks on costa before and beyond middle 

 and at apex, a discoidal point and postmedial points on veins 6, 5, 4. 

 2 . Fore wing with the brown area extending to the antemedial 

 line on inner area and to costa as a band beyond the antemedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing whiter and less yellow, the markings of basal 

 area grey. — Kutch. 



Ab. 2. 2 . Head, tegulse, and prothorax brown. — Cuddapah. 



Hah. Madagascak, Foret d'Ambre {Meade- Waldo), 1 S ', Sind, 

 1 $ ; Bombay, Kutch, 3 d", 1 $ ; Mabras, Cuddapah {Campbell), 

 1 2 ' Exp. 20-22 millim. Type f in Coll. Mabille. 



Genus TARACHE. 



Type. 



Tarache, Hiibn. Verz. p. 261 (1827) caffraria. 



Eiophasia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 115 (1829) nitidida. 



Desmophora, Steph. Cat. Brit. Ins., Lep. ii. p. 109 (1829), non descr. nitidula. 



Proboscis fully deTeloped ; palpi pon-ect, extending to slightly beyond the 

 frons, the 2nd joint rather broadly fringed with scales below, the 3rd short ; 

 frons with rounded prominence often slightly roughened at middle and with 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antenna of male somewhat 

 laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed ahnost entirely with scales, the 

 prothorax without crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest; tibiee mode- 

 rately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

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

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell 

 or stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from well below middle of aiscocellulars 

 01- almost from lower angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell to near middle. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



A. Fore wing of male with hyaline fovea above base of vein 1 



a. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial dark marks on 



costa. 

 a}. Fore wing with obliquely curved olive-brown basal 



patch widely separated from the subterminal band ... lactipennis. 

 b^. Fore wing without obliquely curved basal dark patch. 

 a". Fore wing with the olive-brown inner area extend- 

 ing to base expolita. 



b^. Fore wing with the basal inner area white lucasi. 



b. Fore wing with small quadrate ante- and postmedial dark 



marks on costa, connected in female with the dark 



inner area tetragona. 



6092. Tarache lactipennis. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 5.) 



Tarache lactipennis, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 10, pi, ii. f. 3 

 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 300. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown with a silvery purple gloss ; 



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