784 ^ NOCTUIDiE, 



with white except towards apex and tornus ; a fine white line 

 just before teroaen ; cilia white, tinged with purplish towards apes 

 and with a series of purple-grey points near base. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, the veins tinged with brown, the termeii 

 suffused with brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white, 

 sometimes with slight brown spots on costa beyond middle and at 

 apex. 



Hah. Punjab, Simla (Harford), 1 $, Eawal Pindi, 1 $, 

 Campbellpur (Terburi/), 1 $, Wazeerabad (Hearsey), 2 cj" , 2 $ 

 type; Bengal, Calcutta {HocJcing), 1 <3 . Hvj). 34-36 millim. 



6182. Tarache hortensis. 



Acontia hortensis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 517, pi. 47. f. 7 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 311. 



J . Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous grey ; fore 

 tibiae and the tarsi brownish ringed with white; abdomen white 

 tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white, the base slightly tinged 

 with grey; a subbasal black spot in cell; antemedial line fuscous, 

 double, waved, somewhat interrupted ; orbicular absent ; terminal 

 area purple-grey largely suffused with red -brown, its inner edge 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; reniform 

 incompletely defined by black ; a quadrate postmedial white patch 

 on costa, the postmedial line arising from it, black slightly defined 

 on outer side by white, angled inwards at discal fold, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 and slightly excurved at vein 1 ; sub- 

 terminal line white defined on inner side by brown, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved and bent outwards to 

 tornus, some white beyond it below apex and at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black strise and a spot above tornus ; cilia purplish brown 

 with a white patch above tornus. Hind wing white, the costal 

 area towards apex and the termen to vein 2 suffused with brown ; 

 the underside with two postmedial yellow-brown bars from costa 

 and a mark at apex. 



$ . Fore wing with the basal area more suffused with grey ; 

 hind wing wholly suffused with reddish brown, darker towards 

 termen. 



Hah. Sudan, Suakim (Fletcher), 1 J ; Sokotra, Hadibu Plains 

 (O.-Grant), 2 cS ; Sind, Karachi (;Smn?ioe), 1 $ type. ^a^. 24-26 

 millim. 



6183. Tarache niphogona. 



Tarache niphogona Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 109, pi. iv. f. 17 

 (1909). 



§ . Head dai'k brown, the palpi white except at tips ; thorax 

 creamy white with a few black scales at sides of metathoracic 

 crest ; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brownish ochreous with slight dark dorsal segmental lines, the 



