780 NOCTXJID^. 



piirple shading to olive on inner edge which is excurved to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved to below end of cell ; postmedial line repre- 

 sented by an oblique ochreous mark from costa on the white area, 

 then by a sinuous dark line strongly incurved below vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line faint, whitish, defined on inner side by slight cupreous 

 red marks towards costa and tornus, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black 

 strise ; cilia whitish mixed with brown towards apex and tornus. 

 Hind wing white, the termen tinged with olive ochreous from 

 apex to vein 2 ; the underside white, the costa faintly tinged with 

 ochreous. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Sabaki E. {Gregory), 1 J type. Exp. 26 

 millim. 



6176. Tarache urania. 



Acontia urania, Friv. Tarsas. Tud. Akad. Evkouys. ii. p. 274, pi. 7. fig. 10 

 (1835) ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 413. ff. 3, 4; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. f. 227; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 226. 



Charidea cversmanni, Kol. Mel. Ent. pi. 18. f. 3 (1846). 



c? . Head brown tinged with pink, the palpi white at base ; 

 thorax creamy white, the tibiae and tarsi brownish ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white tinged with ochreous. Fore wing creamy 

 white tinged with ochreous, especially towards costa, and slightly 

 with pink; subbasal line brownish, double, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold; antemedial line brownish, double, waved, obso- 

 lescent on inner area ; orbicular a small round black annulus ; 

 reniform elliptical, partially defined by black, otherwise indistinctly 

 defined; a brownish spot on middle of costa and a small spot 

 beyond the middle ; terminal area red-brown shading to pink and 

 with some silvery blue suffusion, its inner edge with some olive at 

 middle, obliquely excurved to vein 3, then retracted to below end 

 of cell and slightly angled outwards at vein 1, defined by a black 

 line below the cell and with some bluish scales beyond it in sub- 

 median fold; subterminal line indistinct, yellowish, somewhat 

 dentate below vein 4, some slight black marks beyond it below 

 costa ; a terminal series of slight black lunules defined on inner 

 side by yellowish : cilia pink and rufous with a slight dark line at 

 middle. Hind wing white, the veins tinged with rufous, the 

 terminal area suffused with rufous ; cilia white tinged with rufous 

 at base ; the underside white, a small brown discoidal spot, the 

 termen tinged with brown from apex to vein 2. 



. $ . Hind wing more uniformly sufli'used with red-brown. 



Hah. ? Sicily ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Bulgaria ; Armjjnia ; 

 KuRDisTAisr; Asia Minor, Frey and D'Emmick Colls., Brussa, Zeller 

 Coll., Pontus, Bithynia, Taurus ; Syria, Leech Coll., Mardin. 

 Exp. 28-32 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 273 ; Hffm. Eaiip. p. 140. 



Yiolet-brown. Food-plant: AJthcea eannahina. 5 & 7. 



