216 ZYG^NID^ AND BOMBYCIDiE 



8.-AECTIA INTERMEDIA. N. s. (PI. 9, fig. 3, 5 )• 



Intermediate between A. virgo and A. achaia. Head and front very- 

 pale reddish cream color, sides of front next the eyes blackish. Palpi 

 and antennae black. Prothorax concolorous with head, each lobe with 

 a small black dash. Patagia black, edged with dark cream color. 

 Thorax black, with two cream colored stripes. All the pale markings 

 on head and thorax concolorous. Thorax beneath black ; legs blackish. 

 Abdomen above reddish orange towards tip, reddish at base, anal seg- 

 ment black ; a narrow broken black dorsal stripe increasing in promi- 

 nence towards the tip. Abdomen yellowish white along lateral line, 

 with lateral row of small black spots ; black beneath, with traces of 

 a yellowish ventral stripe. 



Primaries deep velvety black ; fringes, costal margin narrowly, and 

 inner margin more broadly very pale yellow ochre ; the veins all 

 clothed with scales of the same color, and the following concolorous 

 markings. A broadish longitudinal stripe below the median vein, 

 leaving the latter before the origin of the 4th median nervule, and 

 then continuing to outer margin parallel to 4th median and furcate 

 just before reaching the same. A broad transverse band just outside 

 origin of 4th median, increasing in width from the inner margin to the 

 costa, where it expands suddenly and increases the width of the costal 

 margin. A second somewhat narrower band across the base of the 

 median nervules, parallel to outer margin, extending from the costa to 

 the longitudinal band, and showing faintly below the latter close to 

 band one. The usual terminal band, originating on the costa midway 

 between band two and the apex, touches the outer margin and is re- 

 flexed towards and connects with band two on the origin of median 

 nervules, being again reflexed and connected with the upper fork of 

 longitudinal band at the outer margin. 



Secondaries pale vermillion, somewhat orange along costa and inner 

 margin. A reduced black discal spot, a submarginal row of three 

 large subequal black spots, the apical one being fused to the black 

 apex of the wing ; there is also a marginal spot near the apex, but 

 not connected with the apical cloud. 



Beneath the markings are reproduced, but all the colors are paler 

 and more diffuse, and the costa of the primaries is more distinctly 

 yellow. 



