720 NOCTUIDiE. 



a grey gloss, the costal area from inner margin near base to 

 near subterminal line white ; the costal edge grey towards base ; 

 two subbasal grey spots in cell ; antemedial line yellow on the 

 white area, then indistinct, dark, incurved ; orbicular and reniform 

 grey- black ringed with white, small, round, the latter with some 

 whitish in centre, the white below it forming a somewhat bidentate 

 mark at lower angle of cell ; traces of a sinuous dark medial line 

 from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line yellowish on the white 

 area, then indistinct, dark, excurved from vein 6 to 4, then strongly 

 incurved ; subterminal line formed by white scales, obsolete at 

 middle and double towards inner margin, minutely dentate ; a fine 

 white line just before termen ; cilia white. Hind wing pale 

 yellow, the cilia white. 



Hah. Br. E. Afrtca, Kikuyu (Craivshay), 1 tf , Eb Urru (Betton), 

 3 J type. E.vp. 30 millim. ' 



6089. Metapioplasta insocia. 



Acontia insocia, Wlk. xii. 788(1857); Hmpsn. Nat. Hist. Sokotra, p. 324, 



pi. xx. f 6. 

 Acontia concinmila, Wlk. xii. 789 (1857). 

 Acontia pi/ralina, Wlk. xii. 789 (1857). 

 Acontia simo, Wllgrn. Wien. Eut. Mon. iv. p. 172 (1860). 

 Acontia, cornifrons, Aufiv. CEfV. Ak Forh. xxxvi. (7) p. 67 (1879). 

 Tarachc porphyrea ( $ ), Butl. P. Z. S. 1898, p. 420. 



S ■ Head and thorax creamy white ; fore tibiae and the tarsi 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen pale yellow, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing creamy white ; subbasal line brownish grey, 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line 

 brownish grey, double, waved, the inner line interrupted in cell ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, with more or less incomplete annuli 



Fig. 206. — Metapioplasta insocia, J. f. 



of blackish scales, the former round, sometimes defined at sides 

 only, the latter elliptical and sometimes with some grey in centre ; 

 a brownish striga from middle of costa ; postmedial line repre- 

 sented by a brown striga from costa and an interrupted minutely 

 waved black line from vein 6 to inner margin, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4 ; terminal area purple-grey suffused in parts with 

 red-brown extending to before the postmedial line beyond the 

 reniform and below the cell ; traces of an interrupted white sub- 

 terminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal 



