TABACHE. 745 



costa ; terminal area silvery grey suffused with red-brown, its inner 

 edge angled outwards at vein 6, then curved downwards round the 

 reniform and slightly sinuous to inner margin, with traces of a dark 

 line near its inner edge ; postmedial line indistinctly double, dark, 

 minutely waved, arising at vein 6 and incurved below vein 4; sub- 

 terminal line white, obsolescent and diffused towards costa, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, then angled inwards and oblique to 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black spots slightly defined by white on 

 inner side except towards apex ; cilia red-brown with some white at 

 middle and towards apex. Hind wing pale golden yellow with some 

 brown marks on termen from below apex to vein 2 ; cilia yellowish 

 white ; the underside with brown discoidal point, some brown 

 irroration on middle of costa and brown marks on costa beyond 

 middle and at apex. 



5 . Fore wing with more or less developed diffused dark band 

 beyond the antemedial line conjoined on inner area to the dark 

 terminal area, the orbicular dark defined by white; hind wing with 

 brown discoidal bar and terminal band from apex to submedian fold, 

 the underside with maculate terminal band from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Teansvaal {Chohnley, lloss). Id", 2 5, Modderfontein 

 (Kruffer), 1 2 ', JSTatal, Weenen, 1 J type, Estcourt (^Hutchinson), 

 2 c? , 1 ? , Maritzburg {Burnup), 1 $ . Exp. 24-30 millim. 



6120. Tarache nivipicta. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 3.) 



Acontia nivipicta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 400. 



Head and thorax white, the metathorax with purplish-brown 

 patch ; palpi brownish at tips ; antennae brownish ; tibiae and tarsi 

 banded brown and white ; abdomen yellow with dorsal brown 

 bands, the ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish brown 

 sutfused with purplish grey, the costal area white from inner 

 margin near base to costa towards apex, its lower edge irregularly 

 sinuous ; siibbasal line represented by double dark striae from 

 costa and spots in cell and above inner margin, the ante- 

 medial line by an oblique dark bar from costa and indistinct double 

 sinuous line on the dark area ; orbicular a small round black spot; 

 reniform brown defined by black, small, elliptical, confluent 

 with the dark terminal area ; a medial dark striga from costa and 

 sinuous line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line represented 

 by an oblique brown bar across the white area, then blackish, 

 strongly incurved below vein 4 and slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 1 ; subterminal line represented by sliglit white marks from 

 costa to vein 3, then bent inwards, white and oblique to tornus ; 

 a terminal series of small black spots except towards tornus defined 

 on inner side by white ; cilia brown with a white patch at middle. 

 Hind wing yellow, the terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia 

 brownish at base, yellowish white at tips ; the underside yellow, 



