768 Iv'OCTUID.E. 



at apex ; a fine brown terminal line defined b}' white on inner side ; 

 cilia wbite, red-brown at apex. Hind.wing semih3aline Avhite, the 

 termen tinged with brown from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Mexico, Durango (Becker), 2 (^ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Ecijy. 28-32 millim. 



6153. Tarache nitidula. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 32.) 



Nodua nitidula, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. Tifi (1787). 



Fhalsna catena, Sowerby. Brit. Misc. p. 29, pi. 14 (1806) ; Curt. Brit. Ent. 



pi. 276; Steph. 111. "Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 116; Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 312. 

 Bes^nophora elegans, Stepb. Cat. Brit. Ins., Lep. p. 109 (1829), noii descr. 



Head and thorax silvery wbite ; palpi above, antennae, fore legs, 

 and the tarsi brownish ; abdomen white. Pore wing silvery white ; 

 an oblique quadrate olive-brown patch from costa near base to 

 median nervure and a triangular patch on middle of costa ; the 

 terminal area broadly olive-brown shading to purple-grey with the 

 indistinct dark curved postmedial line near its inner edge com- 

 mencing on the white area just below costa ; a curved white sub- 

 terminal line with very short streaks on the veins from it to a fine 

 white line just before termen enclosing a series of spots, the spot 

 above tornus being blackish ; cilia white tinged with brown at tips. 

 Hind wing white, the veins of terminal area tinged with brown ; 

 the termen sufii'used with brown, narrowing to tornus or confined to 

 apical area; cilia white with a brown line through them towards 

 apex. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Accra, 1 $ ; Abyssinia, Atbara ((?crra?'c?), 1 S , 

 1 $ ; PoKTUGUESE E. ApKiCA, Pcira (She2:)pard), 1 c? ; Natal, 

 Victoria Distr. (Gooch), 2 $ ; Punjab, Wuzeerabad (Hearsay), 2 (S ; 

 SiifD, 1 (5 ; BoMBAT, 1 2 , Kanara, 1 5 ; Madras, Coimbatore 

 ( Wal.hou)^e), 1 ? ; Buema, Thgyetmyo ( Watson), 1 $ . Exp. 30- 

 40 millim. 



6154. Tarache vallengreni. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 1.) 



Acontia wallengreni, Auriv. CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxvi. (7) p. 61 (1879). 



5 . Head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen red-brown. Fore 

 wing greyish brown ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, excurved to 

 vein 1, then erect; an oblique white band from costa beyond the 

 antemedial line to median nervure at lower angle of cell ; reniform 

 with brown centre and white annulus slightly defined by black, 

 confluent with the white band ; postmedial line with oblique Avhite 

 striga from costa, then blackish, incurved at discal fold and below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line white, slightly excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle and bent outwards to tornus, with black spots beyond it 

 below apex and above tornus ; a terminal series of black striae 

 defined on inner side by a Avhite line ; cilia white mixed with 

 rufous. Hind wing orange with terminal brown band narrowing 



