770 NOCTTTID^. 



line arising from it and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; a fine 

 white subterminal line slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, and bent outwards to termen just above tornus, below vein 5 

 produced as slight white streaks on the veins to a fine white line 

 before the terminal series of black points which do not reach apex; 

 cilia grey-brown with a dark line at middle and white patch above 

 tornus. Hind wing white with red-brown terminal band narrowing 

 to a point at tornus, in female wholly tinged with red-brown ; 

 cilia white ; the underside white with traces of a rufous patch on 

 middle of costa and of a curved postmedial line from costa to 

 vein 2, the termen tinged with rufous from apex to submedian 

 fold. 



Hah. SiND, Karachi (Swinhoe), 1 S ', Madeas, Coimbatore 

 (Walhouse), 1 c? , 2 $ type; Ceylon, Hambantota (Pole), 2 $. 

 Exp. 28-34 millim. 



6157. Tarache aniluna. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 5.) 

 Acontia aniluna, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 209 (1905). 



2 . Head, tegulse, patagia, and prothorax white ; palpi at tips, 

 frons, antennae, tips of patagia, and rest of thorax grey-brown ; 

 abdomen white suffused with brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white, the fore legs in front and tarsi brownish. 

 Fore wing olive-brown with a greyish gloss ; a white patch on 

 basal area, its outer edge angled below costa and at vein 1 ; traces 

 of a sinuous greyish antemedial line ; a very oblique white patch 

 from middle of costa to inner edge of reniform, which is defined 

 by blackish except below, elliptical ; an indistinct oblique sinuous 

 line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a conical postmedial 

 white patch on costa, the dark postmedial line arising from its 

 lower extremity, and incurved below vein 4 to lower edge of 

 reniform ; subterminal line white, almost obsolete on costal half, 

 excurved to termen at middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of 

 small black spots ; cilia with white patch at middle and slightly 

 intersected with white below apex. Hind wing cupreous brown 

 slightly irrorated with white ; cilia white tinged at base with 

 brown from apex to discal fold ; the underside white, the costal 

 and terminal areas tinged with brown, an indistinct discoidal spot 

 and difiused postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Baboquavaria Mts. (Poling), 1 $ cotype. 

 Exp. 28 millim. Prof. Smith suggests that this may be the female 

 of T. pima. 



*6158. Tarache pima. 



Acontia pima. Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 209 (1905). 



S . Head, tegulae, and prothorax white, the rest of thorax steel- 

 grey with a metallic tinge ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing with the costal area to subterminal line and the upper 



