758 NOCTTJIDJ!;. 



reniform olive-brown defined by dark brown, small, elliptical, 

 placed on the dark area ; a slight brown and olive bar from middle 

 of costa ; a triangular yellowish white postmedial patch on costa ; 

 the postmedial line indistinct, dark, arising at vein 6, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; sabterminal line yellowish, hardly traceable 

 except towards tornus to which it is bent outwards ; some black 

 points on termen sometimes present ; cilia yellow mixed with some 

 brown. Hind wing with the basal half yellow, the terminal half 

 suffused with brown ; cilia yellowish at base and tips ; the under- 

 side uniform yellow. 



5 . Fore wing with the basal area more olive leaving a yellow 

 patch on costa ; hind wing wholly suffused with broAvn, the under- 

 side with brown discoidal spot and terminal band. 



Ab. 1. 5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing paler yellow, the last 

 with narrower brown band before the postmedial line and the 

 terminal area yellow. 



Hah. Queensland, Townsville (Dodd), 1 $ , Peak Downs, 1 c? 

 type Clarissa, Gayndah, 1 § type, Brisbane (Turner), 1 (f ; N. 

 Australia, Port Darwin (LyeU), 1 9 ; W. Australia, Sherlock E. 

 (Clements), 4 $ ; N. S. Wales, Parramatta (Raynor), 2 d ■ Exp. 

 20-24 millim. 



6138. Tarache thapsina. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 21.) 

 Hyela tha2mna, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. sxvii. p. 112 (1902). 



Head, tegnlse, and patagia yellow ; thorax red-brown ; antennae 

 brown ; fore tibiae and tarsi brown ringed with yellow ; abdomen 

 yellow dorsally tinged with red-brown, ventrally whitish. Fore 

 wing yellow, the terminal area red-brown, its inner edge obliquely 

 curved and more or less angled inwards beyond upper anole of cell. 

 Hind wing red-brown, the base and cell yellow ; cilia yellow mixed 

 with red-brown at base ; the underside orange-yellow, the costal 

 area irrorated with red-brown, diffused curved postmedial and 

 terminal bands. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with postmedial dark point on costa, a yellowish 

 minutely waved postmedial line from cell to inner margin near 

 inner edge of the dark area, and a yellowish subterminal line ex- 

 curved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; 

 underside of hind wing without markings. 



Hah. Queensland, Townsville (Dodd), Id"; N. Australia, 

 Alexandria (Stalker), 1 c? , 3 § . Exp. 20 millim. Type f in Coll. 

 Turner. 



6139. Tarache guttifera. (Plate CLXXII. figs. 22 c? , 23 $ .) 

 Acontia guttifera, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 26 (1874). 

 S . Head and thorax golden yellow ; palpi white, black at tips ; 



