286 HOPLOTARACHE. By W. Warren. 



by double grey bars from costa; orbicular stigma a black point, reniform oblique, oval, greyish but indistinct; 

 a pale olive yellow band from middle of costa to median vein, joining there the dark terminal area; this is olive 

 brown varied with purple grey, its inner edge obliquely excurved from costa to vein 4, retracted to below end 

 of cell, and incurved to inner margin; outer line indistinct, whitish, finely dentate from vein 6 to inner margin, 

 strongly incurved below vein 4, followed in submedian interval by bluish white irroration ; subterminal line faintly 

 yellowish inwardly edged by coppery red, a row of small black terminal lunules ; hindwing white with some brown 

 suffusion at base ; a sinuous brown median band, and a broad dark terminal border ; the $ has the dark tints increas- 

 ed; the forewing with dark basal suffusion; hindwing with the white areas reduced in extent. Found, like urania, 

 only in the South east of Europe; Hungary, Bosnia, Bulgaria, S. Russia; in Armenia and Asia Minor; and in the 

 Altai Mts., W. Siberia. Larva yellowish white, mottled with pink; an indistinct dorsal line; the lateral lines 

 whitish; the middle segments with deep pink lateral patches mixed with black. 



luctuosa. T. luctuosa Esp. (52 k). Forewing purplish fuscous, becoming paler, more brownish, towards termen, 



and sometimes at extreme base; the lines black, fine; the inner oblique, thrice waved; the outer excurved 

 above middle, incurved below; subterminal line pale, preceded by a darker shade; fringe white with a dark 

 patch below middle ; an abbreviated white band from costa to vein 3 beyond cell, sometimes tinged with flesh 



angusti- colour; hindwing with a white median band of varying width ; inab. angustifasciaafr. nov. (52 k) this band is greatly 

 fascia. res tricted and sometimes interrupted; the examples in which the white costal blotch of forewing is tinged with 



ochracea. flesh colour constitute the ab. ochracea Tutt. Occurs throughout Central and South Europe; in S. Sweden and 

 Livonia: Algeria; Asia Minor; Altai Mts.; Tian shan Mts.; Issyk-kul. Larva grey, sometimes reddish greyd 

 darker at the sides; hues pale with dark edges somewhat interrupted; spiracular line dark brown, pale edge; 

 beneath; subspiracular reddish brown; face ochreous grey with rows of small dark dots; on Convolvulus arvensis. 

 The first two pairs of prolegs shorter than usual. 



biskrensis. T. biskrensis Oberth. (52 k). Forewing with base white varied with grey, followed by a white space 



roughly presenting the form of a bird's head, of which the cell spot forms the eye, the beak projecting towards 

 termen, the top of head resting on costa, and the base of neck on inner margin ; the terminal area greyish yellow 

 with black speckling, containing a nearly triangular white costal spot, and traversed by a white subterminal 

 line; termen with a row of black points; fringe white mottled with yellow; head and thorax white, abdomen 

 greyish yellow. Biskra, Algeria. 



39. Genus: Hoplotarache limps. 



Differs from Tarache in the frons having a truncate conical protuberance with raised rim and small 

 process in centre; in the hindwing the costal and subcostal veins anastomose shortly at base only. Type H. 

 mionides limps, from S. Africa. 



Sect. 1. Veins 3, 4 of hindwing stalked. 



lunana. H. lunana F. (= olivea Guen., nivosa Swinh.) (52 k). Forewing in costal area white from near base 



of inner margin to near apex; the lower edge of the white area expanding and angled at lower angle of cell and 

 more shortly angled again at vein 6 ; the rest of wing olive green varied with silvery purple ; a grey spot in cell 

 near base, and the costal edge at base grey ; inner line olive yellow, angled outwards on median vein, where it 

 joins the dark area; outer line olive, curved outwards above and inwards below vein 4; subterminal line 

 denoted only by white scaling towards apex and above inner margin; some white lunules along termen; the 

 two stigmata grey edged with white, small and round; hindwing yellowish white; the termen from apex to vein 

 2 tinged with brown; in the $ the whole hindwing is brownish. An Indian species occurring across the border 

 in Kashmir. 



karachien- H. karachiensis Sivinh. (51 n). Forewing with the basal half and the costal area beyond white, the 



sis - latter narrowing to a point at apex ; the lower edge being curved downwards below the cell ; costal edge and inner 

 margin slightly brown-tinged; terminal area rufous mixed with grey; an oblique median line followed below 

 ceU by rufous suffusion; outer line interrupted, marked by a black spot towards apex on costa and by three 

 black dots beyond cell, then incurved and obscure ; subterminal marked by a few white scales ; black and white 

 terminal lunules; hindwing white, the costal area and the termen brownish; head and tegulae white; in the $ 

 these are brownish; the forewing grey with a diffused whitish streak below costa; the median area in its outer 

 half ard the terminal area more rufous; traces of a sinuous inner line, with a rufous spot on median vein; the 

 hindwing wholly brownish. Described from the extreme northwest of India, and occurring also in the Libyan 

 desert. 



sordescens. • H. sordescens Stgr. (52k). Forewing white slightly suffused with reddish brown; fringe with a faind 



brown line at middle ; hindwing the same, but the terminal border brown, and the fringe pure white. Recordet 

 only from W. Asia; Diarbekir in Asia Minor and Mardin, Syria. 





