6136. Taraclie bicolora. 



Acontia bicolora, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889 p. 133, pi. ix. ff. 7, 7 a. 



(S . Head and thorax olive-yellow- mixed with some black 

 scales ; antennae fuscous ; tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen dark brown with ochreous white segmental lines, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing olive-3'ellow overlying black, 

 extending on costa to near apex and on inner margin to middle, 

 the terminal half red-brown with purplish suffusion on postmedial 

 area except toward^ costa, the inner edge of the dark area bent 

 inwards at vein 6 to the end of cell ; postmedial line only defined 

 by the inner edge of the purplish area, incurved below vein 4, the 

 subterminal line only defined by its outer edge and incurved below 

 vein 3 ; an ochreous striga just before middle of termen ; cilia 

 purplish fuscous with wliite patch at tips at apex. Hind wing dark 

 reddish brown, the cilia ochreous white with a brown line near 

 base ; the underside paler with pale yellow medial and postmedial 

 patches on costa. 



o . Head and thorax black-brown with a few yellow scales ; 

 abdomen dark brown ; fore wing black-brown with some olive- 

 yellow scales on basal area, an oblique olive-yellow medial bar from 

 costa, and triangular pale yellow postmedial spot on costa. 



Ab. 1. c? • Head, thorax, and fore wing pder and less olive- 

 yellow, the last with three subterminal ochreous spots on inner half 

 and a terminal series of black points. 



Ilab. Japan, Nagasaki (Leech), 2 c? , 1 $ type, Satsuma (Leech), 

 2 2 ■, Yokohama {Pryer), 2 cT , 1 ? ; Cokea, Gensan (Ito), 1 d" , 

 1 ^ ; C. China, Chusan I. {J. J. WalTcer), 1 S , Ningpo, 1 § , Ichang 

 (Afrs. Pratt), 1 5 , Kiukiaiig (Pryer, Pratt), 2 $ , Chang-yang 

 (Pratt), 2 S • Exp. 22-26 millim. 



6137. Tarache detrita. (Plate CLXXII. figs. 19 cJ , 20 $ .) 



Acontia detrita, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 401 ( $ ). 

 Acontia clarissa, Butl. Trans Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 402 (cT). 



cJ . Head and thorax yellow suffused with olive-green ; palpi 

 whitish, brown at tips ; lower part of frons whitish ; antenna 

 brown ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and the tarsi brown 

 ringed with white; abdomen red-brown with yellow segmental 

 lines and the anal tuft yellow, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing yellow extending on costa to beyond middle and on inner 

 margin to middle, the terminal half red-brown with some purple 

 and white suffusion on postmedial area except towards costa and 

 some yellow on termen except at apex ; some olive-yellow suffusion 

 below base of cell ; anteraedial line diffused, olive-yellow with slight 

 brown mark at costa ; the orbicular a faint olive-yellow spot, the 



