756 XOCTUID.E. 



from a wedge-shaped brown mark on costa followed by a wedge- 

 shaped white mark, excurved to vein 4, then incurved to below 

 origin of vein 2 and erect to inner margin ; an indistinct subterminaj 

 line exeu ved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of 

 black points denned on inner side by slight whitish marks. Hind 

 wing uniform reddish brown, the cilia greyish brown ; the under- 

 side greyish suffused with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and 

 iudistiuct curved postmedial line. 



Hub. Madagascar, Nossi-B.e, type t $ in Coll. Mabille. Exp. 

 '22 inillim. 



6135. Tarache sexpmictata. 



Pyralis ^-punctata., Fubr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2. p. 245 (1794). 



Erastria imbuta, W'lk. xxsiii. 7'«'4 (18H5); Hinpsn. Moths Ind ii. p. . >I4. 



Acontia inda, Feld. Keis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 2:j(Lc>74); Moore, Lep. L\-A. tif, 



p. 48, pi. 150. f. 5. 

 Acontia acerba, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 25 (1874). 



o . Head and thorax yellow with a slight olive tinge ; antenna) 

 brownish; palpi, pectus, and legs whitish, the fore tibiae and the 

 tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing 

 yellow with a faint olive tinge extending on costa to near apex and 

 on inner margin to middle, the terminal half red-brown, the post- 

 medial area with a faint purplish tinge except towards costa, the 

 terminal area yellowish except at apex ; postmedial line red-brown 

 with a spot on costa below which it is obsolescent, then excurved 

 to vein 4 where it is bent inwards and oblique to inner margin ; 

 subterminal line with a pale striga from costa, then very indistinct, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved ; cilia brown 

 mixed with greyish, with a dark line through them and fuscous 

 patch above middle. Hind wing ochreous whitish, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with red-brown ; cilia brownish at base, 

 whitish at tips ; the underside ochreous with faint postmedial brown 

 bar from costa. 



2 . Head and tborax red-brown with a faint greyish tinge ; 

 abdomen brown with ochreous white segmental lines ; fore wing 

 red-brown with a slight greyish tinge, a triangular whitish post- 

 medial spot on costa ; hind wing grey-brown. 



Ab. 1. d . Head, thorax, and fore wing more ochreous yellow, 

 the last with the terminal area and patch at rn'ddle of cilia ochreous 

 yellow. — Nilgiris, Ceylon. 



Ab. 2. <3 . Head and thorax olive-brown ; fore wing with the 

 yellow area strongly tinged with green. — Nilgiris. 



Hah. Puxjab, Dharmsala (Hocking), 8 <S , 6 $ , Allahabad. 1 2 , 

 Jubbulpur (F. Butler), 1 $ , Manpuri, 1 2 ; Madras, Cuddapah 

 ( ( 'hi, i i>h,'H i, 1 2 , Nilgiris (Hampson), 3 tf , 3 $ ; Ceylox, Colombo 

 (Nietaer), '1 $ , 1 2 ; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 2 type imbuta, 

 Rangoon (Scott), 1 <$ . Exp. 20-24 raillim. 



