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lower at about one-third; submedian and internal vein straight. Body small, thorax 

 stout, abdomen extending beyond hiudwiugs ; palju ascending, laxly clothed ; first 

 joint very narrow, second joint broadly dilated at the sides towards the tip and 

 extending some distance in front of the head, third joint very minute, conical; 

 antennce stout, simple ; legs squamose, fore tibia3 thick, laxly clothed. 



ARIOLA C^LISIGNA. 



Ariula calisigna, Walker, Catal. Leji. Het. B. M. xii. p. 769 (1857). 



Ariola Rausonnetii, FelJer et Rogenh. Nov. Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 108, fig. 1 (1874). 



Forewing dark sap-green, with a longitudinal narrow pearly-white fascia curving 

 downward from base of the costa to the apex, the upper border of the fascia sharply 

 defined, and the lower area of the wing of a paler green ; a slight blackish streak 

 along base of posterior margin and with some pale purple speckles at its extreme 

 end ; an outer marginal narrow pale purple band, including the cilia, the inner border 

 of the band being sinuous, and traversed by an inner black sinuous band and slender 

 marginal line: hind wing and abdomen .dark cinereous-brown. Thorax, head, and 

 palpi dark green ; legs whitish ; forelegs blackish above, with white tarsal bands, 

 middle tarsi with blackish bands. 



Expanse f inch. 



Pamily ACONTIID^. 



Imago with rather shining thick forewings, in repose covering the hindwings 

 and forming a very sloping roof. Larva slender, a little swollen posteriorly, with 

 twelve legs ; feeds exposed. Pupa subterranean. (Sfainton.) 



Genus ACONTIA. 



Acontia, Ocbsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 91 (1816) ; HLibner, Verz. bek. Schraett. p. 257 (1818-25). 



Heliothera, Sodoffsky, Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. pt. vi. p. 16 (1837). 



Xanthodes, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 209 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 778. 



Male: forewing elongate, triangular; straight in front, apex almost pointed, 

 exterior margin slightly oblique ; cell long, narrow, extending three-fifths the length ; 

 first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second close to end of the 

 cell, bifid at a short distance from the base, fourth from end of the cell and also bifid 

 at a short distance from the base ; discocellular outwardly oblique, slightly concave, 

 bent close to each end, radials from the angles ; middle median from close before 

 end of the cell, lower at about one-third ; submedian curved : hindwing short, broad, 

 apex and exterior margin convex ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 outwardly oblique, radial from below the middle ; two upper medians from end of 

 the cell, lower at one-fourth before the end; submedian and internal vein straight. 

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