748 noctuid^;. 



Acontia maculosa, Wlk. xii. 795 (1857); But!. 111. Het. B. M. iii. p. 20, 



P i. 4f>. r. i. 



Acontia biptmctata, Wlk. xii. 798 (1S57). 



J 1 . Head and thorax yellowish white mixed with reddish ochreous; 

 antenuoe brownish; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white; 

 abdomen ochreous white with dorsal brown bands. Fore wing 

 yellowish white extending on costa to near apex and on inner 

 margin to middle, the terminal half olive-brown with some purplish 

 suffusion on postmedial area except towards costa and some yellowish 

 white on termen ; subbasal line represented by obliquely placed 

 olive-ochreous spots on costa and in cell ; a double diffused olive- 

 ochreous anteraedial band interrupted in cell and somewhat oblique 

 below if ; orbicular and reniform small, grey-brown with white 



Fig. 209.— Taracke marmoralis, $. f. 



centres, the former round, the latter elliptical ; an oblique olive- 

 ochreous bar from middle of costa and line from cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line olive-ochreous towards costa, rufous below vein 6, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line yellowish white defined on inner side by slight rufous marks 

 with some white scales before them, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, then bent inwards and oblique to tornus ; a terminal series 

 of small black spots except towards apex and tornus ; cilia yellowish 

 white with blackish patch above middle and some blackish at apex 

 and tornus. Hind wing ochreous white, the costa towards apex 

 and the termen to vein 2 tinged with red-brown ; cilia ochreous 

 white tinged with brown at base from apex to vein 2, the under- 

 side with brown discoidal spot, postmedial bar from costa and patch 

 at apex. 



5 . Ground-colour of head, thorax, and fore wing much whiter, 

 the dorsum of thorax greyish ; fore wing with the markings much 

 greyer and less olive, or with hardly any olive tinge ; hind wing 

 with the terminal area more broadly suffused with brown extending 

 to tornus. 



Hab. Up. Egypt ; Loocnoo Is. (Pryer), 1 rf ; China {Harrington), 

 2 <$ , 1 2 type maculosa ; Formosa (Hobson), 1 $ ; Punjab, Simla 

 {Harford), 1 $ , Dharmsala {Hoelcing), 5 6 , 3 $ , Almora {Boys), 

 2 $, Deyra Dhun, 1 J , Allahabad, 1 J ; hab. ign., 1 J type bi- 

 punctata; Sikhim, 1 J , 1 § ; Bengal, Calcutta, 1 S , 1 $ ; 

 Madras, Nilgiris {Flamjison), 1 J , 1 $ ; Ceylon, Colombo {Nielner), 

 2 6 , Trincomali (Yerbury), 1 $ ; Burma, Rangoon (Scott), 1 $, 



