778 NOCTUIDiR. 



whitish patch at middle ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia 

 white at middle, blackish towards apex and at tornus and tipped 

 with white below apex. Hind wing pure white with small black- 

 brown apical patch continued to vein 2 as a line with minute 

 streaks at extremities of veins. 



$ . Head and thorax creamy white suffused with olive-brown ; 

 fore wing creamy white, the costal half suffused with olive-brown 

 to end of cell, the orbicular represented by a whitish point ; hind 

 wing dark brown, the cilia brown at base, whitish at tips ; the 

 underside brownish white with diffused curved postmedial line and 

 terminal band. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Accra {Carter), 1 $ ; Bk. E. Africa, Neugia 

 (Crawshay), 1 J, Voi (Betton), 1 $ type; Bechxt anal and, N'Gami 

 {Lugard), 1 $ . Exp. 22-24 miUini. 



6172. Tarache citripennis, n. sp. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 17.) 



Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi at tips, lateral spots on 

 frons, and the antennas black ; fore and mid tibiae and tarsi banded 

 black and white ; abdomen pale yellow, the base and ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing creamy white; subbasal line grey, 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line grey 

 with blackish spots at costa, double, waved ; orbicular represented 

 by a small grey spot, the reniform by a black striga on inner side 

 and minute point at upper extremity ; a curved grey bar from 

 middle of costa and a small postmedial spot on costa ; terminal area 

 olive-grey shading to purple-grey suffused with red towards termen, 

 its inner edge slightly angled outwards at vein 6 and strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial line arising at the angle at 

 vein 6, indistinctly double filled in with some white, minutely 

 waved, incurved below vein 4 and with a black and silvery blue 

 mark before it in submedian fold ; subterminal line slight, white 

 defined on inner side by deep red marks and by black marks above 

 and below vein 6, excurved below vein 7, dentate at veins 4, 3 and 

 bent outwards to tornus ; a white patch beyond it below middle ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia grey with a white 

 patch below middle. Hind wing pale golden yellow, the cilia 

 white. 



Hah. JS'atal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 <S type ; Basutoland, 

 Masera {Grawshay), 1 $ . Exp. 38 millim. 



*6173. Tarache spangbergi. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 18.) 



Acontia spdnghergi, Auriv. CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxvi. (7) p. 62 (1879). 



(5 . Head blackish ; thorax creamy white, the fore tibiae and the 

 tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen yellowish white. Fore 

 wing creamy white with a slight ochreous tinge ; subbasal line 

 represented by double grey striae from costa ; a slight grey streak 



