400 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



towards the outer margin, along which is a reddish cupreous stripe ; 

 fringe white : secondaries sericeous creamy whitish, with diffused 

 cupreous-brown external border and an ill-defined stripe of the 

 same colour on the fringe ; thorax white flecked with cupreous- 

 brown, abdomen brown in type (sometimes cream-coloured flecked 

 with brown) ; primaries below greyish with pink reflections ; 

 secondaries sericeous creamy whitish, suffused with pink towards 

 costal and external margins ; pectus pearl-white, legs pale flesh- 

 brown, anterior legs greyish above ; venter whitish. Expanse of 

 wings, 21 mm. 



Viti Islands. 



Also in the Museum from Moreton Bay ; it is nearly 



related to the " Erastria " ritsemcs of Snellen. 



30. Acontia tripartita, n. s. 

 Allied to the preceding species ; primaries pure white, divided by 

 two transverse eqiiidistant undulated chocolate-brown bands into 

 three nearly equal parts, the inner band of about half the width of 

 the outer, the latter expanded into an oblong spot upon the costa ; 

 a blackish costal spot near the base ; an irregular submarginai 

 brown line and a slender black-brown marginal line ; fringe flecked 

 with brown ; secondaries sericeous, cream-coloured, broadly 

 suffused with grey towards oixter margin ; an interrupted slender 

 dark brown marginal line ; thorax cream-coloured ; abdomen 

 gi'eyish, especially in the middle ; primaries below smoky grey ; 

 apical third of costal border black spotted with ochreous ; 

 secondaries pale creamy ochreous, changing in certain lights to 

 silvery greyish ; costal area irrorated with blackish ; a black spot 

 at the end of the cell, and an angulated discal stripe beyond it 

 from costa to submedian vein ; all the wings with a very slender 

 black marginal line ; body below ochreous. Expanse of wings, 

 15 mm. 



Eockhampton. 



31. Acontia niripicta, n. s. 

 Allied to A. maculosa of China and A. tctragona of St. Domingo. 

 Primaries above deep olivaceous, shading into cupreous-tinted 

 chocolate-brown towards outer margin ; interno-median area 

 glossed with lilac and crossed by four interrupted obhque bands of 

 the ground colour ; a large quadrangular snow-white patch at base, 

 and upon it, close to the base, four unequal dark olivaceous spots ; 

 three black dots along the infero-exterior margin of the basal 



