*G130. Tarache iiearota. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 12.) 

 Tarache neurota, Lower, Tr. R. >Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 33 (1903). 



5 . Head, tegulae, and abdomen oehreou^ ; thorax pale yellow 

 above. Fore wing whitish j'ellow ; a blood-red subbasal striga 

 from costa ; some red suffusion below base of cell ; an oblique 

 waved red antemedial line expanding into a large patch on outer 

 side at middle, on medial nervure conjoined to a large discoidal 

 patch ; postmedial line somewhat dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and confluent with tho 

 discoidal patch ; an ill-defined highly dentate subterminal line ; a 

 terminal band with irregular inner edge. Hind wing silky ochreous 

 tinged with brown on terminal area ; an ill-detined brown discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines. Underside 

 ochreous ; fore wing tinged with fuscous and with discoidal spot and 

 minutely waved postmedial and subterminal lines ; hind wing with 

 slight postmedial curved punctiform line. 



Efah. Queensland, Cooktown, typef $ in Coll. Lower. Exp. 

 20 millim. 



6131. Tarache gratiosa. (Plate CLXXII. figs. 13 d", 14 $ .) 



Acontia gratiosa, Wllgrn. Anteckn. i. Zool. i. jd. 59 (1856) ; id. Svensk. 



Vet.-Aknd. Uandl. v. (3) p. 68 (1864). 

 Acontia luieola, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 333, f. 171 (1891). 



S . Head and thorax olive-yellow : palpi whitish, black at tips ; 

 frons whitish with blackish bar above ; pectus white, the fore tibiae 

 and the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen orange, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing orange-yellow, extending on costa to 

 towards apex and on inner margin to middle, the terminal area 

 deep rufous with purple suffusion on postmedial area except towards 

 costa and some yellow on middle of termen, the inner edge of the 

 dark area curved inwards round the reniform and bent inwards 

 below the cell ; subbasal line represented by two dark points on 

 costa and a greenish yellow spot in cell ; antemedial line dift'ased, 

 greenish yellow with dark mark at costa ; orbicular a black point, 

 the reniform slightly defined by black except below and with some 

 greenish in centre, elliptical ; postmedial line with dark mark at 

 costa, oblique olive line to vein 6, then indistinct, rufous, incurved 

 below vein 4 and slightly angled outwards at vein 1 ; subterminal 

 line yellow, interrupted, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then 

 bent inwards and obliquely waved to torn us : a terminal series of 

 small black spots except towards lornus, slightly defined on inner 

 side bj' white ; cilia yellow mixed with rufous and with purplish 

 fuscous patches above middle and at tornus. Hind wing golden 

 yellow, the termen suffused with brown ; cilia yellow tinged with 

 brown towards apex. 



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