504 NOCTUID.T. 



u, 4 black. Fore wing pure white ; a triangular dark brown patch 

 on base of costa followed by a point ; antemedial line black, angled 

 outwards in cell and above vein 1, followed by a golden-brown band 

 emitting a fork below the cell curving upwards beyond the cell to 

 vein 6 ; a black point at upper angle of cell and small spot at lower 

 angle; a postmedial dark point on costa; terminal area golden 

 brown except towards tornus : some white points on costa towards 

 apex ; subterminal line whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle and angled inwards at discal fold, some small wedge-shaped 

 dark marks before it below costa and at middle ; cilia dark brown 

 mixed with some grey. Hind wing whitish tinged with ochreous 

 brown ; cilia white mixed with ochreous white at tips ; the under- 

 side white tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown, a small 

 black discoidal spot, indistinct waved postmedial line, and line 

 terminal line. 



Hub. Madagascae, Foret d'Ambre ( Meade- Waldo), 1 tf ; Mauri- 

 tius, 1 J, 1 J; Punjab, Simla (Harford), 3 $, Dharmsala 

 {Boding), 7 6, 2 $ type; Sikhim (Dudgeon), 1 $. Exjp. 18 23 

 millim. 



5756. Lithacodia signifera. 



Acontid signifera, Wlk. xii. 793 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 47, 



pi. 150. f. 4 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. li. p. 304. 

 Acontia subji.va, Wlk. xxxv. 1064 (1866). 



Head and thorax white mixed with some golden brown ; palpi 

 with a brown band on 2nd joint ; fore tibiae and tarsi banded with 

 brown ; abdomen white suffused with golden brown, the crests on 

 medial segments black. Fore wing white; the basal area with 

 two dark marks on costa followed by a point, a subbasal black 

 point in cell ; antemedial line black, slightly sinuous, followed by 

 a golden-brown band emitting a fork below the cell to beyond the 

 cell at vein 6 ; two black discoidal points with a blackish spot 

 beyond them before the postmedial line, which is fine, double filled 

 in with white, slightly bent outwards below costa, then very 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some blackish 

 and white points beyond it on costa ; terminal area golden brown 

 except towards tornus ; subterminal line fine, white with small 

 wedge-shaped black marks before it below costa and at middle, 

 slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black striae defined on inner side by white 

 stiias ; cilia brownish mixed with white. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with golden brown especially towards termen ; a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia white tinged with golden brown and with a 

 dark line through them ; the underside white, the costal and ter- 

 minal areas irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule, 

 postmedial bar from costa, and terminal series of minute black 

 lunules. 



Hah. Japan, Tokio (Maries), 1 <5 , Yokohama (Pryer, Manley, 

 Siebold), 1 «J , 3 $ ; Core a, Gensan (Ito), 2j;C. China, Shanghai 



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