, TAEACHE. 789 



some blackish scales on its outer edge ; antemedial line double, 

 greenish grey filled in with white, waved, excurved below the cell ; 

 orbicular and reniform slightly defined by black, the former minute, 

 round, on a greyish patch connected with a patch on costa, the 

 latter hoop-shaped, open below ; terminal area deep red-browu ; 

 postmedial line represented by a greenish grey bar from costa on 

 the white area and a sinuous blackish line from vein 6 to inner 

 margin, incurved below vein 4, with some greenish grey before it 

 beyond the cell and on inner area ; two white points on costa 

 towards apex ; traces of a sinuous dark subterminal line, below 

 vein 3 incurved and with slight white points on its outer edge ; a 

 fine black terminal line ; cilia blackish with some white at base and 

 tips above tornus. Hind wing ochreous whitish, the veins and 

 termen tinged with reddish brown, in female more uniformly 

 suffused with brown ; cilia whitish, tinged with brown towards 

 apex; the underside yellowish white with dark discoidal point and 

 some diffused brown at middle of costa and apex. 



Hah. Congo {Marsden), 1 <S ; Angola, Ambriz (Monteiro), 1 (j" ; 

 Be. E. Africa, Sabaki it. (Gregory), 1 § , Taveta (Rogers), 4 $ , 

 Kiliman'jaro {Jackson), 1 5 , Samburu (Betton), 1 $ ; Portuguese 

 E. Africa ; Bechttanaland, N'gami (Lugard), 1 S ', Natal, Durban 

 (Leigh), 1 2 ; Bombay, Poena, 1 $ type upsilon ; Madras, She- 

 varoys, 1 d" . Exjo. 26-30 millim. 



*6188. Tarache costosa. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 28.) 



Tarache costosa, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 723. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with brown in parts ; 

 tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore wing greyish broAvn, the 

 basal area white with a brown streak above inner margin ; subbasal 

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

 grey, oblique, waved ; a white patch on medial part of costa 

 extending to median nervure, its outer edge obliquely excised, a 

 brown point on it below middle of costa and a black point on its 

 inner edge representing the orbicular ; an indistinct blackish medial 

 line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line dark, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then obliquely incurved, a small 

 triangular white mark beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, 

 dentate, defined on inner side by dentate brown marks, angled out- 

 wards at veins 7, 6 ; a terminal series of black points defined on 

 inner side by white striae ; cilia white tinged with brown towards 

 apex and tornus and with blackish patch at discal fold. Hind 

 wing white slightly tinged with ochreous, the terminal area suffused 

 with red-brown ; cilia white ; the underside white tinged with 

 ochreous, a small brown discoidal spot. 



Hub. Madagascar, type f 5 in coll. Mabille. Exj). 24 millim. 



