TARACHE. 755 



Ab. 1. J. meridionalis. Head and thorax with brown scales 

 mixed ; fore wing with some brown on the basal area, the subbasal 

 and antemedial lines defined by brown on costal half. 



Ab. 2. (5' . Fore wing with the yellow replaced by whitish, the 

 basal area largely suffused with red-brown leaving irregular white 

 markings. 



Hah. Formosa (Bohson), 1 J ; Punjab, Simla {Harford), 1 S , 

 Dharmsaia (BocJdng), 5 (S , Almora (Boys), 2 § , type signifera, 

 Allahabad, 2 c5' , 1 $ ; Bengal, Calcutta, 1 S ', Bombay (Leith, 

 Swinhoe), 3 c? , 2 $ , Xutch, 1 5 , Bandra {Jayakar\ 2 c5" , 2 § ; 

 Madras, Gooty {Camphell), 1 5 , Coimbatore ( Walhouse), 1 c?, 1 $ 

 type meridionalis ; Cetlos', Hambantota {Pole), 1 c? , 1 ? ; Burma, 

 Myingyan {Watson), 1 J, 2 $, Thayetmyo {Watson), 2 S ; 

 Queensland, Townsville {Dodd), 2 c5' ; JN". Australia, Alexandria, 

 {StalJcer), 1 $ . Ea-j). 16-22 miliim. 



6133. Tarache xuthota, n. sp. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 17.) 



§ . Head and tegulse orange ; palpi at tips and antennae brown ; 

 thorax brown, the outer edge of patagia orange ; pectus and legs 

 ochreous yellow, the fore tibiae and tarsi with brownish bands ; 

 abdomen brown with segmental yellow lines, the ventral surface 

 ochreous. Fore wing red-brown with a slight purplish grey tinge ; 

 a large orange-yellow patch on basal area, extending at base to 

 vein 1 and smaller medial and postmedial patches on costa ; traces 

 of a dark antemedial line bent outwards below costa, then oblique ; 

 a red-brown postmedial line excurved from below costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; traces of a dark subterminal line incurved below 

 vein 3. Hind wing reddish brown, the basal area yellow, extending 

 in cell to its extremity ; cilia yellow at base and tips, brown at 

 middle ; the underside yellow sufiused with brown, an indistinct 

 diffused dark postmedial band from costa to vein 3. 



Hub. QuEENSLAXD, Townsville {Dodd), 1 § type. Hxj). 22 

 miliim. 



*6134. Taracte microptera. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 18.) 



Acontia microptera, Mab. Ann. See. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 321 (1879); Saalm. 



Lep. Madag. p. 3^0. 

 Acontia nrnvulosa, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 334, f. 237 (1891). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous brown ; tarsi brown 

 with pale rings. Fore wing greyish brown suffused in parts with 

 dark brown, especially on costal area from beyond antemedial line ; 

 subbasal line represented by a whitish point on costa ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, dark, sinuous ; orbicular and reniform small black 

 annuli with a quadrate white patch between them emitting a curved 

 streak round upper part of reniform ; an indistinct black medial 

 line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish arising 



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