TARACHE. 769 



to tornus and leaving some orange before the dark terminal line ; 

 cilia rufous at base, white at tips. 



Hah. Damaealasd, type f $ in Mus, Stockholm. Exy. 34 

 millim. 



6155. Tarache umbrigera. (Plate CLXXIII. figs. 2 cJ , 3 $ .) 



Acontia umbrigera, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108. f.34 (1874). 



Acontia trimaculata, Auriv. CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxvi. (7) p. 60 (1879). 



Head white, the antennae brown ; tegulae and patagia white, the 

 tips of former and upper edge of latter brownish ; vertex of thorax 

 brownish with a fine white dorsal line ; tarsi brown ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown except towards 

 extremity. Fore wing purplish grey suffused in parts with olive- 

 green ; a silvery white patch with curved upper edge on basal half 

 of inner area with two slight subbasal white stride from it to costa 

 followed by a very slight obliquely curved line ; an oblique quadrate 

 silvery white patch from costa before middle, extending to just 

 below cell, its extremity produced to a point below the reniform, 

 which is a small lunule faintly defined by silvery blue and at- 

 tenuated below ; a truncate conical silvery white postmedial patch 

 from costa to vein 6, the indistinct dark postmedial line with very 

 slight blue-white line on its outer edge arising from it, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 ; a white subterminal line, obsolescent 

 towards costa, below vein 5 produced as short streaks on the veins 

 to a fine white line just before termen enclosing a series of spots 

 not quite reaching the apex, the subterminal line ending on termen 

 at vein 1 ; cilia brown on apical half, white towards tornus. Hind 

 wing white, the termen suffused with reddish brown narrowing to 

 a point at vein 2, in female wholly tinged with brown ; cilia white ; 

 the underside white with traces of two brownish postmedial bars 

 from costa and the apex brownish. 



Hah. Be. E. Afkica {Gregory)., 1 S ; Angola, Kinsembo, 1 $ ; 

 Damakaland ; Bechuanaland, N'Gami {Lugard)., 1 c? , 2 $ ; 

 Cape Colony, Murraysburg. ii'.rp. 32-36 millim. Ty^Q "f trimacu- 

 lata in Mus. Stockholm. 



6156. Tarache catenula. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 4.) 



Euphasia catenula, Wlk. xxxiii. 780 (1865) ; Hmpso. Moths Ind. ii. p. 312. 



Head and thorax white dorsally suffused with red-brown ; tarsi 

 brownish ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with 

 red-brown. Pore wing purplish grey suffused with olive-brown ; 

 an oblique white streak on basal part of vein 1 ; an oblique white 

 band from costa before middle to just below median nervure, its 

 extremity produced to a point at lower angle of cell ; a quadrate 

 white postmedial patch from costa to vein 6, its inner edge slightly 

 angled below the costa, the rather punctiform black postmedial 



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