HOPLOTARACHE. By W. Warren. 299 
thorax, abdomen, and tibiae .smoothly scaled; the metatliorax with a flattened crest; neuration normal. Type 
L. fulviruja Hmps. from Africa. 
L. eustrotiodes Hmps. (25m). Forewing ochreous with a rufous tinge; the terminal area suffused with eustroliodes. 
brown leaving an ochreous patch at apex; basal half of costa with a few dark striae; some small dark subbasal 
spots obliquely placed below cell and above inner margin; inner line shown only on inner margin; a black bar 
at end of cell with faint striga beyond it; a double median line below cell; outer line from black costal point, 
excurved beyond cell and oblique to inner margin; subterminal line pale, indistinct; a row of black terminal 
dots; hind wing brownish grey. Gooty, Madras; a single $. 
115. Genus; Hoplotarachc Hmps. 
Tongue well developed; frons with a truncate conical corneous prominence with raised rim and a 
small process in the centre; palpi short, slender, slightly porrect upwards; antennae of G lamellate, pubes¬ 
cent; thorax and dorsum smooth, without crests; wings as in Tarache, but in hindwing the costal and subcostal 
anastomose only at base. Type H. mionides Hmps. 
Sect. I. Veins 3, 4 of hind wing stalke d. 
H. deceptrix spec. nov. (27 a). Forewing white; subbasal line of two dark grey spots, one on costa, the decepirix. 
other at base of cell, preceded by a grey curve at base; inner line blackish grey, thickened into a striga at costa, 
more or less interrupted at median vein and below vein 1, preceded by two slaty grey spots above and below 
median and a grey streak below vein 1; median line indicated by an oblique blackish triangle at middle 
of costa; outer line black from a narrow dark costal striga, bluntly angled on vein 6, then incurved and 
lunulate to below reniform and then vertical; this lower part below the angle lying within a slaty purplish, 
shade, which is inwardly limited by a straight slightly oblique black mark forming lower part of median line, 
and outwardly by the irregular white subterminal line, before which there is a fine dentate line of bluish 
scales; at costa the dark area is limited by a straight vertical line to the angle of outer line; terminal area 
fuscous grey, the apex purplish; a row of black white-edged lunules along termen; fringe white with some 
grey towards apex and at tornus; orbicular stigma grey, small and round; reniform oval, slaty grey with pale 
centre and dark outline; hindwing grey with large dark cellspot, the veins dark, and a diffuse blackish 
terminal border; underside of forewing slaty fuscous with a whitish costal spot before apex; of hindwing 
white with black cellspot and narrow dark border; head and thorax white; face, palpi externally, and metatho¬ 
rax grey; dorsum fuscous. 1 $ from Travancore (Place) . Type in Tring Museum. 
H. lunana F. (= olivea Guen., nivosa Swinh.) (27 a). Forewing with costal area white from inner lunana. 
margin near base to costa towards apex, its lower edge forming a bidentate mark beyond lower angle of cell 
and again angled at vein 6; the rest of wing a mixture of olive green and silvery purple; the costal edge to¬ 
wards base grey; a grey spot in base of cell; inner line olive yellow, diffuse, angled outwards on median nervure 
and connected below with the olive green area; orbicular and reniform stigmata grey, small and round, with 
some white in centre and a grey bar between them; outer line olive, excurved above and incurved below vein 4; 
subterminal line indicated by some white scales towards apex and a slight incurved whitish line towards 
tornus; a row of small white lunules just before termen; fringe olive brown with the tips white; hindwing 
yellowish white; the costal and terminal areas tinged with reddish brown; a dark cellspot; in the $ the hind¬ 
wing is wholly tinged with brown. Found in the Punjab, Bombay, and Madras; also in Kashmir. 
H. costalis Walk. (= binominata Btlr.) (27 b). Forewing brown with some grey irroration; the costal costalis. 
area white, its lower edge expanding at middle of cell, and triangularly beyond cell; the costal edge more or 
less tinged with brown; inner line obliquely curved, very faint; outer line indistinct, rising from the white area 
at the angle at vein 6 and incurved below 4; subterminal line faint, twice excurved; fringe with a dark 
patch above tornus; hindwing whitish, the costal and terminal areas brown; in $ wholly brown. Occurs in 
the Punjab, Sind, Bombay and Madras. Examples from Ajmere — subsp. imquinata subsp. nov. (27 b) —- have inquinata. 
the vertex and prothorax and the costal streak of forewing except a small costal spot at the end suffused 
with paler or darker greyish pink, in one $ only partially. 
H. karachiensis Swinh. (Yol. 3, pi. 51 n). $ Forewing with basal half and costal area white, the latter karachien- 
sis. 
