TARACHE. 747 



6122. Tarache zelleri. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 5.) 



Acoiitia zelleri, Wllgrn. Anteckn. i. Zool. i. p. 59 (1856) ; id. Sveusk. Vet.- 



Akad. Handl. v. (3) p. 67 (1864). 

 Acontia imitatrix, Wilgrn. Anteckn. i. Zool. i. p. 69 (1856) ; id. Svensk. 



Vet.-Akad. Handl. v. (3) p. 68 (1864). 

 Acontia transfiffurata, Wllgrn. Anteckn. i. Zool. i. p. 60 (1856) ; id. Svensk. 



Vet.-Akad. Handl. v. (3) p. 69 (1864). 

 Acontia tinctilis, Wllgrn. CEfv. Ak. Foi-h. 1875, p. 109. 



Head and thorax white more or less mixed with olive-green ; 

 antennae brownish ; fore tibiae and tarsi brown ringed with white, 

 the mid and hind tibise with brown bands near extremity ; ab- 

 domen white with dorsal brown bands, the anal tuft ochreons. 

 Fore wing creamy white : an irregular subbasal olive-green band 

 from costa to submedian fold ; a double irregular antemedial olive- 

 green band, the inner part interrupted in cell, angled outwards 

 below costa and at median nervure where it is sometimes connected 

 with the dark postmedial area, then somewhat oblique ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, fuscous with some white in centres, the former 

 round, the latter elliptical ; an olive medial bar from costa and a 

 sinuous line from middle of cell to inner margin, the area beyond 

 it olive-green with more or less developed white spots below the 

 cell and above vein 1 ; a postmedial olive-green patch on costa with 

 a triangular white patch beyond it, the indistinct rufous postmedial 

 line arising from its apex and stronglj^ incurved below vein 4 ; post- 

 medial area olive-green suffused with purplish grey and with rufous 

 towards costa, some white scales on it forming traces of an oblique 

 sinuous line ; subterminal line white and only defined from the white 

 terminal area by patches of olive-green at apex and above and below 

 middle, bent inwards below vein 3 and oblique to tornus ; some 

 black striae on termen ; cilia white with black patch below apex 

 intersected by olive at base, and blackish patch above tornus. Hind 

 w ing ochreous white, the termen tinged with brown from apex to 

 vein 2, in female the whole wing suffused with brown ; cilia white, 

 brown at base towards apex ; the underside with the costal area 

 yellow with postmedial brown bar from costa and patch at apex. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Accra {Garter), 1 $ , Kumasi ( Whiteside), 1 § ; 

 NiGEEiA, Yorubaland, Ogbomoso {Carter), 1 c? ; Ee. E. Afeica, 

 Teita (Jaclson), 1 c? ; Gazaland, Chirinda Forest (Marshall), 2 $ ; 

 Transvaal, White E. [Coolce), 1 $ , Pretoria (Janse), 1 $ ; 

 ZuLULAND, Lr, Tugela {Reynolds), 2 $ ; Natal, Victoria Distr. 

 {Oooch), 1 c? , Durban (Leigh), 1 c? , 2 $ ; Faequhar Is. (Fletcher), 

 1 ?. 



6123. Tarache marmoralis. 



Noctua marmoralis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 234 (1794). 

 Acontia tropica, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 217 (1852) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 47, 

 pi. 150. r. 2; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 314. 



