TAEACHE. / / i 



patch at apex and terminal line to vein 2 ; the underside with 

 postmedial dark striga from costa. 



Bab. Uganda, Victoria Nyanza (Hannivgfon), 1 J ; Mashona- 

 lAND {Dobbie), 1 d" type. Exp. 32 millim. 



6170. Tarache secta. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 15.) 

 Acontia secta, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 221 (1852). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; antennae brown ; fore 

 tibiae and the tarsi brown, the latter ringed with white. Fore 

 wing pure white ; subbasal line represented by a slight grey- 

 brown striga from costa ; antemedial line grey-brown, double, 

 waved, erect ; orbicular represented by slight grey-brown spots on 

 its inner and outer edges, the reniform by a black discoidal point; 

 a grey-brown spot on middle of costa ; terminal area grey-brown 

 tinged with cupreous red, its inner edge angled at vein 7 and 

 incurved below end of cell ; postmedial line represented by a small 

 brown spot on costa on the white area and an indistinctly double 

 lunulate black line on the dark area, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4, a white point beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, 

 defined on inner side by slight blackish marks, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of slight black lunules 

 defined on inner side by white ; cilia white with brown spots 

 towards apex and at torniis. Hind wing semihyaline white ; a 

 terminal brown band narrowing to tornus ; cilia white ; the 

 underside with brown spot on middle of costa and bar from costa 

 beyond middle. 



Mab. Abyssinia, Atbara {Gerrard), 1 J. Exp. 30 millim. 



6171. Tarache porphyrea. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 16.) 



Tarache porijliyrea (J), Butl. P. Z. S. 1898, p. 420. 



S . Head and thorax pure white, the metathorax with some 

 grey scales at base ; palpi at tips and antennaj brownish ; fore 

 femora brown above, the tibiae and tarsi banded brown and white ; 

 abdomen white dorsally slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 pure white to postmedial line, before which there are olive-grey 

 patches on costa and beyond the cell ; subbasal line olive-grey, 

 double, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line olive-grey, 

 double, waved, erect ; reniform represented by slight black striae 

 at sides ; postmedial line double, filled in with white towards costa, 

 below which it is slightly bent outwards, then blackish, minutely 

 sinuous, below vein 4 incurved to below end of cell, the area 

 beyond it red-brown suffused with silvery purple and with some 

 white points on costa ; subterminal line represented by slight 

 white marks defined on inner side by obscure somewhat dentate 

 black marks, angled outwards below vein 7 and slightly dentate 

 at middle ; the terminal area irrorated with silvery blue and with 



