761- 



6143. Tarache acerba. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 26.) 



Fritva acerba, H. Edw. Piipilio, i. p. 24 (1881) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. o02. 



Head and thorax black-brown glossed with leaden grey ; abdomen 

 dark greyish brown. Fore wing black-brown glossed with leaden 

 grey, the costal area more or less prominently and sometimes the 

 terminal area especially towards tornus irrorated with pale grey ; 

 traces of a curved antemedial line formed of black scales ; reniform 

 faintly defined by grey, small, elliptical, an indistinct oblique dark 

 bar to it from costa ; postmedial line dark and oblique from costa 

 to vein 6, then formed of black scales, strongly incurved below 

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

 represented by a few black scales or defined by grey suffusion 

 beyond it ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark red- 

 brown, the cilia greyish with a brown line near base. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 5, liouge R. (^WalsingJiam), 5 cJ , 

 4 2 ' Ex_p. 20-22 millim. 



6144. Tarache nubilata. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 27.) 



Tarache mihilaia, Hrnpsn. Aim. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 390 (1902). 



J . Head and thorax white, the tips of tegulae and the thorax 

 tinged with purplish brown ; fore tibiae and tarsi brown slightly 

 ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing creamy white mostly suffused with pale purplish and 

 olive-brown ; an oblique brown shade from base of cosia along 

 median nervure to the antemedial line, whith is very indistinct, 

 double, oblique from costa to median nervure where it is angled, 

 then inwardly oblique ; orbicular and reniform with their centres 

 slightly defined by brown and incomplete white an null, round, the 

 former with short white fascia before it ; an indistinct oblique 

 olive-brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line with white patch befoie and beyond it on costa, olive- 

 brown, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved and with 

 raised black scales on it ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then very strongly incurved 

 and defined on outer side by red-brown followed by yellowish ; a 

 terminal series of blackish points except towards tornus defined on 

 inner side by a white line ; cilia red-brown mixed with -whitish 

 and with rather darker patches at discal and submedian folds. 

 Hind wing very pale yellow, the termen slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 cilia yellowish white with a rufous line through them ; the under- 

 side with slight rufous discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Xaxal, Durban {GoocJi), 1 d type. E.vj). 28 millim. 



