TAKACHE, 759 



frons white with a black bar above ; antennae black • pectus and 

 legs white, the tibiae and tarsi banded with black, the fore femora 

 black ; abdomen yellow, white below. Fore wing golden yellow 

 from inner margin near middle to costa near apex, obliquely cut off 

 towards apex, then strongly incurved, the rest of wing dark 

 chocolate-brown slightly irrorated with grey and without markings. 

 Hind wing golden yellow. Underside of fore wing yellow, the dark 

 area represented by a whitish postmedial patch irrorated with 

 brown from vein 6 to inner margin. 



$ . Tegulae at base and prothorax with black-brown bands, the 

 dorsum of thorax mostly black-brown. Fore wing black-brown 

 slightly irrorated with blue-grey ; a yellow patch at base expanding 

 into a short streak below the cell ; round antemedial yellow patches 

 on costal and inner areas and a round medial yellow patch on costal 

 area ; an oblique elliptical subterminal patch from costa and a 

 rather reniform patch from vein 5 to inner margin. Hind wing 

 with chocolate-brown terminal band, its inner edge irregularly 

 diffused, narrowing to tornus ; cilia chocolate-brown, yellowish 

 white towards tornus ; underside of fore wing yellow with a forked 

 brown medial band not reaching inner margin, its inner arm not 

 reaching costa and its outer emitting a spur at discal fold ; hind 

 wing uniform yellow. 



Hah. Angola, Ambriz [Monieiro), 1 $ ; MozAMBiatJB, Delagoa 

 'B&j {Mrs. Monteiro), 1 c?, 1 2 ; Natal, Stanger (Delvin), 1 c? , 

 Victoria Distr. {GoocJi), 2 c? , 2 $ , Duffs Road, 1 $, Durban 

 {Bowher, Leigh), 1 c? , 1 § . Exp. 22-24 millim. 



6140. Tarache hemixanthia, n. sp. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 24.) 



5 . Head and thorax pale sulphur-yellow ; palpi except at baso 

 and antennae black-brown ; pectus and legs black-brown ; the coxae 

 with white patches, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen 

 dark brown, tinged with fulvous towards base. Pore wing with 

 the basal half pale sulphur-yellow, its outer edge with a nearly 

 straight and erect black line, the terminal half deep cupreous red 

 suffused with silvery purple beyond the postmedial line except 

 towards costa ; a small silvery purple spot in cell near inner edge 

 of the dark area and a larger spot with black centre on disco- 

 cellulars ; a triangular sulphnr-jellow postmedial spot on costa, the 

 indistinct black postmedial line ai'ising from its apex, angled out- 

 wards in discal fold, then strongly incurved and with blackish spots 

 beyond it in submedian fold and above inner margin ; some minute 

 white points on termen below apex and at middle. Hind wing 

 dark brown with a cupreous red gloss ; cilia greyish with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside greyish suffused and irrorated 

 with dark brown, an indistinct dark discoidal spot. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Tanga(//oZZi6-), 1 5 type. Exp. 22 millim. 



