TARACHE. ibO 



ventral surface white. Fore wing with the basal half white ; 

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

 antemedial line s^rej, double, waved ; orbicular a small black spot ; 

 terminal half olive-brown shading to deep purple-grey, its inner 

 edge angled in cell, then oblique ; reniform defined by blackish, 

 hoop-shaped, open below ; a triangular white patch from costa 

 towards apex, the minutely waved blackish postmedial line arising 

 from it, strongly incurved below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish defined on inner side by small somewhat dentate rufous 

 marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black points slightly defined on inner side 

 by white, a larger spot in submedian fold ; cilia brownish towards 

 apex and tornus, white at middle. Hind wing ochreous whitish 

 sufiPused with red-brown, especially towards termen ; a small 

 discoidal spot and diffused postmedial line ; cilia white, brownish 

 towards apex ; the underside white tinged with brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule, brown patch at middle of costa, diflfused curved 

 postmedial line, and terminal band narrowing to submedian fold. 



J . Fore wing with the white basal area confluent on costal 

 half with the white postmedial patch, the inner edge of the dark 

 terminal area very strongly and evenly incurved below vein 5, 

 two small olive spots on costa beyond middle ; hind wing white 

 with narrow terminal dark band from apex to vein 2. 



Bab. Uganda, Ruwenzori, 3,500' (Legge Sf WoUaston), 2 § type ; 

 Congo, Katanga, Kambove (Neave), 1 c^ ; N.W. Rhodesia, Alala 

 plateau (Neave), 1 J ; Mashonaland (Dobhie), 1 c? . Exp. 30 

 miUim. 



6184. Tarache caffraria. 



Noctua cafraria, Oram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 82, pi. 147«fig. F (1779). 

 Noctua caloris, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 372 (1808). 

 Acontia komaga, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 33 (1874). 



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

 white with a few black scales at sides of metathoracic crest ; fore 

 tibiae and the tarsi black ringed with white, the mid and hind 

 tibiae with black spots ; abdomen creamy white with slight fuscous 

 dorsal segmental lines. Fore wing with the basal half creamy 

 white ; subbasal line diffused, grey, double, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold, confluent with the diffused double waved ante- 

 medial line ; orbicular a small black spot; terminal half deep olive- 

 green shading to deep purple, its inner edge oblique from costa to 

 median nervure where it is angled ; reniform elliptical, more or less 

 strongly deiined by white, confluent with a quadrate white patch 

 on postmedial costal area ; postmedial line represented by an 

 oblique dark bar on the white costal patch and a series of black 

 spots on the dark area, strongly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of very slight rufous lunules with some 



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