TAKACHE. 771 



half of cell white, the rest of wing grey suffused with olive and 

 mixed with some iridescent blue and violet, the violet scales forming 

 faint antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a slight white indentation of the dark area ; reniform 

 whitish ; subterminal line indicated by scattered white and bluish 

 scales and a bar from tornus; a terminal series of velvety black 

 marks ; cilia-olive grey with a white patch between veins 4 and 2. 

 Hind wing whitish with a fuscous terminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Pima Co., Baboquavaria Mts. Exp. 24- 

 25 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



6159. Tarache antica. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 6.) 



Acontia antica, Wlk. Trms. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 90 (1862). 

 Tarache acontina, Mab. Ann. Soc. But. Fr. 1899, p. 729. 

 Tarache semiplumhea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 384 (1902). 



Head and tegulse white, the palpi at tips, frons, antennae, and 

 tips of patagia tinged with red-brown ; thorax dark red-brown ; 

 pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed 

 with white ; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface white. Pore 

 wing deep red-brown suffused with some silvery grey ; a large 

 creamy white patch on basal costal area with a dark subbasal point 

 on costa ; antemedial line dark brown, bent inwards to costa ; a 

 large semicircular creamy white patch on middle of costal area 

 with a dark point at middle of costa ; tufts of dark scales at 

 middle of cell and on discocellulars ; a small white postmedial 

 spot on costa ; postmedial line represented by a series of blackish 

 marks, arising at vein 7, and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; 

 terminal area creamy white except at apex ; subterminal line 

 white and minutely dentate on costal area, then represented by 

 the contrast between the brown and white areas, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle, then incurved and bent outwards to tornus ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; cilia yellowish white with a 

 black spot above middle. . Hind wing yellowish white with brown 

 discoidal spot and terminal band, in female suffused with red-brown 

 especially towards termen ; cilia yellowish white ; the underside 

 yellowish white, a dark discoidal lunule and diffused almost con- 

 fluent postmedial and terminal bands. 



Hah. E. Africa, type f cJ acontina in Coll. Mabille ; Transvaal, 

 Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 c? ; Natal, Victoria Distr. (Gooch), 2 5; 

 Cape Colony, Bedford ( Weale), type f 5 semiplumbea in Coll. 

 Druce. Exp. 24-26 millim. Type f § in Mus. Oxon. 



6160. Tarache delecta. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 7.) 



Acontia delecta, Wlk. xii. 799 (1857); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 301. 

 Acontia metallica, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 327, pi. ii. f. 7 (1865). 



S . Head and tegulae dark red-brown, the latter with leaden- 

 grey line near tips ; palpi white at base ; thorax creamy white, 



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