TARACHB. 783 



6180. Tarache gradata. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 23.) 



Acontia gradata, Wlk. xii. 788 (1857). 



Head black, the palpi white except at tips ; thorax creamy 

 white with slight black marks at sides of metathorax ; tibiae and 

 tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged 

 with yellow except at base, and with slight brownish segmental 

 lines. Fore wing creamy white ; subbasal line grey, double, waved, 

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

 waved ; orbicular represented by a few black scales ; reniform 

 incompletely defined by black, hoop-shaped, open below, a grey 

 bar from costa before it ; an oblique postmedial grey bar from 

 costa ; terminal area silvery purple with some olive on its inner 

 edge, which is angled inwards at vein 6 to near the reniform and 

 strongly incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 double, minutely waved, incurved below vein 4 and with two 

 black and silvery blue marks before it on inner area ; a white 

 point on costa before the subterminal line, which is represented by 

 slight dark marks with a white point at costa and slight white 

 marks beyond them on inner half, excurved below vein 7 and at 

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

 striae slightly defined by white towards tornus ; cilia purple-grey 

 with yellowish white patch above tornus. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow with terminal brown band from apex to vein 2 ; cilia 

 creamy white with some fuscous at base towards apex ; the under- 

 side with the costal area whitish, a small blackish discoidal spot, 

 patch on middle of costa, curved punctiform postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 4, and patch on apical part of termen. 



Hah. Cape Colony {Brhge), 1 6 type, Grahamstown, 1 5 . 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



6181. Tarache notabilis. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 24.) 



Calophasia notabilis, Wlk. xi. 669 (1857) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 311. 



Head and thorax white, the latter faintly tinged with fuscous 

 on dorsum ; antennae fuscous ; fore legs and the tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white with slight dorsal brownish 

 bands. Fore wing creamy white ; a slight waved black subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold, more or less reduced to points ; 

 antemedial line represented by an oblique wedge-shaped mark 

 from costa and usually one or more points in submedian interspace ; 

 an oblique quadrate spot from middle of costa ; terminal area 

 olive-brown shading to purple-grey, its inner edge angled below 

 vein 7 and incurved below the cell ; postmedial line dentate, black, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line white with 

 elongate black marks beyond it from costa to vein 5 and a black 

 lunule above tornus, dentate, and with the veins beyond it streaked 



