790 NOCTTJID^. 



6189. Taraclie margaritata. 



Noctua margaritata, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. iii. pi. 21. f. 6 (1782). 

 Acontia bohe7nanni, Wllgrn. Antectn. i. Zool. i. p. 58 (1856) ; id. Svensk. 



Vet.-Akad. Handl. (5) 3, p. 66 (1864). 

 Acontia monilifera, Wlk. xii. 798 (1857). 

 Acontia includens, Wlk. xii. 799 (1857). 

 Acontia unio, Feld. Reis.Nov. pi. 108. f. 32 (1874). 



cJ . Head and thorax white ; palpi at tips, frons, antennae, and 

 metathoraeic crest brownish ; fore tibias and the tarsi brown ringed 

 with white ; abdomen white with slight brownish dorsal segmental 

 lines. Pore wing with the basal half white ; subbasal line grey, 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, followed by a black 

 point in cell; antemedial line grey, double, waved; orbicular a 

 small round grey spot with faintly defined white annulus : a medial 

 olive-green band, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell where it 

 is interrupted, then incurved and with black lunule beyond it in 

 submedian fold ; reniform defined by black, hoop-shaped, open 

 below ; a large truncate conical white postmedial patch from costa 

 to discal fold, its inner edge excised below, its outer edge angled 

 below vein 7, some olive-green below it, the indistinct double 

 minutely waved postmedial line arising from its outer edge and 

 incurved below vein 4 ; the terminal area purplish grey tinged with 

 blood- red ; subterminal line very slight, whitish, defined on inner 

 side by blood-red, incurved below costa where there is a blackish 

 patch beyond it, then minutely waved ; a terminal series of black 

 striae slightly defined by white on inner side; cilia pinkish and 

 white with a series of obscure dark spots and whitish patch below 

 middle. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with red-brown 

 and with slight dark points on it from apex to vein 3 ; the under- 

 side with slight black discoidal spot. 



5 . Fore wing with the basal area slightly suffused with grey ; 

 hind wing with the whole terminal area suffused with brown. 



ffab. Natal, Durban {Oooch), 2 S , 3 $, types monilifera and 

 includens. Exp. 36-40 millim. Type t bohemanni in Mus. 

 Stockholm. 



6190. Tarache tetragonisa, n. sp. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 29.) 



2 . Head grey-brown, the vertex and tegulse pure white ; thorax 

 white tinged with brown ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae 

 and tarsi grey-brown ringed with white ; abdomen brownish with 

 darker segmental lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 purplish grey, the terminal half suffused with red-brown except 

 towards inner margin, some white suffusion at base ; subbasal 

 line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, a black 

 point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; 

 orbicular faintly indicated by some dark scales, the reniform by 

 slight oblique black bars at sides; traces of a waved line from 



