42 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Body moderately stout, abdomen keeled above ; head pointed in front ; palpi 

 ascending to vertex, narrow, compactly squamose, second joint long, third joint of 

 the same breadth and half the length of the second, pointed at the tip ; antennjB 

 minutely ciliated ; legs stout, tibiae densely fringed, middle and hind tibial with long 

 spurs. 



{Type, A. Malv£B.) 



ACONTIA FLAVA (Plate 149, Fig. 2, 2a, larva). 



Noctnn flava, Fahricius, Eiit. Syst. iii. 2, p. ol (1793). 



Xanthoihs transversa, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 211, pi. 10, tig. 5 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. 

 xii. p. 778. 



Yellow : forewing with a transverse basal, an antemedial, a discal, and a sub- 

 marginal ferruginous-brown line, the three outer lines acutely angulated externally, 

 the inner line on the median vein, the discal line on the upper radial, where the angle 

 is acutely prolonged and extends to the submarginal line ; along the exterior margin 

 is a broad ferruginous-brown band with irresjular inner border ; cilia ferrusfinous- 

 brown: hindwiug paler yellow in male, ochreous-yellow in female; cilia yellowish- 

 cinereous. Body yellow, thorax with ferruginous-brown streaks; sides of head and 

 palpi ferruginous-bi'own ; legs above ferruginous-brown. 



Expanse Iq: to 1\ inch. 



Larva with twelve legs ; pale green, with a few very fine hairs ; a subdorsal, 

 lateral, and a sublateral row of white spots, the subdorsal row with an intervening 

 larger yellow spot on each segment. Pupa pale purplish-red. 



ACONTIA INTERSEPTA (Plate 149, Fig. 3). 

 Xanthodes intersepta, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 212 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 778 (1857). 

 Yellow : foi'ewing deep yellow, with a longitudinal ferruginous-brown fascia 

 extending from below the cell and widening to the exterior margin below the apex, 

 the fascia joining a distinct slender ferruginous-brown marginal line ; a few black 

 speckles at the apex ; four or five paler ferruginous-brown spots along the costal 

 border, the two spots nearest the apex slightly oblique, two similar spots also on 

 the subraedian vein ; cilia brownish-cinereous : hindwing ochreous-yellow ; cilia pale 

 cinereous. Thorax pale yellow ; abdomen ochreous-yellow ; head above and palpi 

 beneath white, head and palpi with lateral ochreous-brown band ; legs brownish- 

 ochreous above, white beneath. 

 Expanse 1 1 inch. 



ACONTIA IMITATA (Plate 149, Fig. 4, j). 

 Smaller than A, intersepta : forewing shorter, narrower, and less triangular in 



