TARACHE. By W. Warren. 
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118. Genus: Taracke Hbn. 
Tongue fully developed; frons with a rounded prominence more or less roughened at middle, with a 
corneous plate below it; palpi porrect, the second segment fringed with scales below, the third short and smooth; 
antennae of <$ lamellate, simple; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without crests; forewing with normal 
neuration; veins 3, 4 of hindwing sometimes from cell, sometimes stalked; costal and subcostal veins anasto¬ 
mosing to near middle. Larva in autumn on low plants; in warmer climates with an additional summer brood. 
The imago flies in the sunshine. The sexes, as in the allied genera, often differ considerably. Type T. cafjraria 
Cram. 
Sect. I. Veins 3, 4 of hindwing stalked. 
T. nivipicfa Btlr. (27 b). Forewing reddish brown with purplish grey suffusion; costal area white from nivipieta. 
inner margin near base to costa towards apex, its lower edge irregularly sinuous; subbasal line marked by 
striae and spots; inner line an oblique dark bar from costa across streak, and a double sinuous line indistinct 
across the dark lower area; orbicular stigma a small round black spot; reniform brown defined by black, small 
and oval, confluent with the dark terminal area; median line bent in middle, straight above, sinuous below; 
outer line oblique and brown across the white costal area, then blackish, strongly incurved below vein 4, angled 
outwards on vein 1; subterminal formed of small white marks to vein 3, then bent inwards, and white and 
oblique to tornus; fringe brown with a white patch at middle; hindwing deep yellow, with brown black ter¬ 
minal border; fringe brown with the tips yellow; in the $ the inner line is more strongly developed across 
costal streak and connected with the dark inner area; in the ab. flavistriga ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the dark flavisiriga. 
costal strigae are replaced by yellow. Found in New Guinea and Australia, — Queensland, New South Wales, 
and W. Australia {also in Sumba Island, and Dutch Timor. 
T. basifera Walk. (27 b). <$ Forewing with the costal area white from inner margin near base to costa basifera. 
towards apex, its lower edge irregular and curved downwards to enclose the two stigmata, the rest of wing 
olive brown mixed with purplish grey and with slight white irroration; a subbasal grey brown striga from 
costa to a spot in cell; inner line grey brown, oblique to median vein, there angled and inwardly oblique, 
becoming olive; orbicular and reniform stigmata small, grey brown, the former round, the latter oval; a grey 
brown median triangular spot on costa; outer line from a grey brown costal spot, becoming blackish with an 
olive shade before it beyond and below cell, excurved. to vein 4, then strongly incurved to below end of cell; 
subterminal line white, obsolescent at costa, then wavy and oblique to tornus; small black terminal dots 
lined with white internally; fringe brown with the tips white towards apex, then fuscous with a white patch 
at middle; hindwing white tinged with reddish brown, except along costa to middle; a faint cellspot; the 
fringe white; head and thorax white ; in the $ the fore wing is more suffused with olive green below the white 
costal area, and the inner and median costal marks are connected; the hindwing is wholly suffused with brown; 
the tips of the tegulae, the upper part of patagia, and the thorax are grey brown. Recorded from the Punjab, 
and Madras in India, and from Burma. 
T. marmoralis F. (== tropica Gum., maculosa Walk., bipunctata Walk.) (27 b, c). Forewing yellow- marmoralis. 
ish white from base nearly to middle of inner margin, on costa reaching nearly to apex; the terminal area olive 
brown, inwardly suffused with purplish, the termen itself again yellowish white; an inner olive ochreous band, 
interrupted in cell and oblique below it; outer line olive ochreous towards costa, more rufous below; sub¬ 
terminal line yellowish white; a terminal row of black spots; fringe yellowish white with black blotch 
above middle and black scales at apex and tornus; the stigmata small and grey, their centres white, the orbicu¬ 
lar round, the reniform oval; hindwing ochreous white, the termen from apex to vein 2 tinged with red brown; 
the $ is much paler, more whitish, than the ; the markings without or with only slight olive tinge; hind¬ 
wing with the terminal dark band broader and reaching tornus. A very common species, occurring in the Loo- 
choo Ids. and Formosa; in the Punjab, Bengal, Sikkim, Madras, Ceylon, Burma, Hainan, Borneo, Java, Celebes. 
Larva grey, with diffuse purplish bands at middle of each segment, and many irregular yellowish white spots 
defined by purplish brown, forming a double dorsal line and segmental bands; head rufous with black mouth; 
the legs black. 
T. rachiastis Hmps. <$ Forewing ochreous white; a slight ochreous patch on base of costa; a curved rachiasiis. 
ochreous inner band from a brown costal mark; stigmata hardly traceable; an ochreous bar from a brown 
mark at middle of costa, and an oblique blackish line from cell to inner margin, with redbrown suffusion 
