NOCTTJID^. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 165; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 176; Hffm. 

 Eaup. p. 140, pi. 36. f. 7. 



Grej-'brown tinged with red and dorsally mixed with blackish 

 and whitish, spiracular line white; 1st pair of prolegs absent. 

 Food-plants : Convolvulus and Malva. 6.7.9, 



*6186. Tarache malgassica. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 25.) 



Acontia malgassica, Mab. C. E. Ent. Sec. Belg. xxv. p. 60 (1881); 

 Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 330. 



2 . Head and teguliB white ; thorax and abdomen white tinged 

 with brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, 

 the tarsi tinged with brown and irrorated with white. Pore wing 

 white faintly tinged with ochreous on inner half, a brownish fascia 

 on basal half of inner margin ; subbasal line represented by a 

 curved black striga from costa and black striga from cell ; brownish 

 marks on and below costa and above and below submedian fold 

 hefore the antemedial line, which is slight, black, interrupted, waved, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, then erect, a quadrate brown 

 mark beyond it on costa ; orbicular represented by an elongate 

 brown and grey patch, the reniform by a few brown scales on its 

 edges, with a triangular brown mark above it from costa ; a small 

 triangular postmedial brown mark on costa; a slight blackish line 

 from vein 6 beyond the cell, erect to vein 4, then bent inwards to 

 lower angle of cell and erect to inner margin, the area beyond it 

 dark brown to the subterminal line traversed by the black post- 

 medial line, which arises from the triangular costal mark, is slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate and below vein 4 strongly 

 incurved ; subterminal line whitish, incurved below costa and vein 3, 

 where there are round black spots with whitish annuli beyond it, 

 minutely dentate at middle ; terminal area white tinged with grey ; 

 a terminal series of brown striae ; cilia white tinged with brown. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown, broadly 

 at costa, narrowing to tornus ; cilia white with a brown line near 

 base ; the underside white with the terminal half of costal area and 

 terminal area slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Ma.dagascae, type t $ in Coll. M abille. Exy. 46 millira, 



^ 6187. Tarache discoidea. (Plate CLXXIII. figs. 26 (^ , 27 $ .) 



Acontia discoidea, Hopffr. Peter's Reis. Moz. p. 433, pi. 28. f. 9 (1862). 

 Calophasia upsilo7i, Wlk. sxxiii. 763 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 311. 



Head grey-brown, the palpi white except at tips ; thorax white 

 slightly tinged with ochreous ; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed 

 with white ; abdomen reddish ochreous, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing white with a faint ochreous tinge ; subbasal line greenish 

 grey, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold where there are 



