GYRTONA. 211 
scales on its outer edge in and below cell ; medial line dark, sinuous : 
reniform faintly defined by fuscous and with a point of raised black 
scales in centre ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards 
below costa, then minutely waved, incurved at discal fold and below 
vein 4; some pale points beyond it on costa and an indistinct curved 
minutely dentate line; subterminal line grey slightly defined on 
each side by fuscous brown, minutely waved, slightly excurved 
below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of dark brown strie. 
Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces of basal half semihyaline 
whitish ; cilia with fine white line at base and whitish tips; the 
underside paler. 
Ab. 1. spilalis. Fore wing with black spot on vein 1 beyond the 
antemedial line. 
Ab. 2. phycisoides. Fore wing with black spots on vein 1 beyond 
the antemedial and medial lines. F 
Ab. 3. Fore wing with white patch on inner area beyond the 
antemedial black spot. f 
Ab. 4. Fore wing with the white patch on inner area but 
without the black spot. 
Ab. 5. Fore wing with diffused brown streak on median nervure 
and thence to termen. 
Ab. 6, The type. Fore wing suffused with black from near base to 
middle, 
Ab. 7. thoracica. Similar, but head, thorax, abdomen, and the 
terminal half of fore wing except towards tornus whitish. 
Ilab, Cexrton (Templeton), 2 Q types thoracica and phycisoides, 
Maskeliya (Pole), 1 9; Prrax, Goping (Aiinstler), 1 Q ; Sincarore 
(Ridley), 4 3,6 2 ; Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 1 ¢,5 Q,type 
and types rotundalis and spilalis ; New Brrrarn, type T Q angusta in 
Coll, Rothschild. wp, 20-24 millim. 
6464. Gyrtona acisalis. (Plate CLXXIX, fig. 25.) 
Nephopteryx acisalis, WI1k. xxvii. 66 (1863) ; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 405. 
¢. Head and thorax dark brown with a purplish tinge, the 
tegule and dorsum of thorax sometimes with whitish and rufous 
mixed ; pectus whitish; the tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey- 
brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark brown 
suffused with purple; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to 
vein 1; antemedial line double, waved; medial line indistinct, 
waved; reniform indistinctly defined and with point of) raised 
rufous and black scales in centre; postmedial line double, bent 
outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, strongly incurved 
below vein 4 to below end of cell, some pale points beyond it on 
costa; subterminal line indistinct, double, minutely dentate ; 
a terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing fuscous brown, 
the interspaces of basal haif whitish. 
Hab. Cuyton (Nietner), 3 g type; Siyeapore (Iidley), 2 3. 
Exp. 22-26 millim. 
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