SETOCTENA.—ACONTIA, 653 
margin ; postmedial line brown, oblique from costa to below vein 7 
and inwardly oblique below vein 5. Hind wing semihyaline 
ochreous white, the terminal area tinged with rufous ; cilia yellowish 
at base, 
Hab, Grrou. W. Arrica, Swakop R., type f ¢ in Mus. Stock- 
holm, wp, 28 millim. 
*7109. ? Setoctena polla. 
Leocyma polla, Schaus. Lep. 8. Leone, p. 35, pl. ii. f. 11 (1903), 
Head and tegule yellow; thorax and abdomen white faintly 
tinged with brown. Fore wing silvery white, the termen slightly 
tinged with brown; a somewhat darker medial band defined by 
shghtly waved dark lines and somewhat oblique from costa to 
discal fold where it is angled outwards; a dark subterminal shade, 
somewhat expanding at costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 
and incurved at discal and submedian folds. Hind wing semi- 
hyaline white tinged with brown especially towards termen, 
Hab. Siprra Leone, type in Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. wp. 
24 millim. This species is unknown to me. 
Genus ACONTIA. 
Acontia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 91 (1816), non descr. Treit. ahi 
SMH IW 7 (G) jos ZO (CIBPAD) eoaonacdnc0eseooc0doeos=oG0scas00000" malve, 
CNC hOdES ME MeMyNOGE I pe ZU ON (LS O2)) resi ascniiecoeisesnelensebceesees male. 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, rather slenderly 
scaled, in male typically clothed with downturned hair in front, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, the 8rd moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of hair 
above; eyes large, round; antennz of male ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly 
with scales and without crests ; tibie fringed with long hair in male ; abdomen 
with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 
typically evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 
of cell; 6 from upper angle: 7, 8 stalked; 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind 
wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from below 
middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell 
near base only. 
Secr. I. Fore wing of male with the termen somewhat excised below vein 4, 
the palpi clothed with downturned hair in front. 
A, Fore wing of male with a fringe of long upturned hair on 
vein | from base to middle on underside. 
a, Hind wing orange-yellow. 
a, Fore wing with the antemedial line present............... emboloseia. 
b'. Fore wing with the antemedial line absent .............. arod. 
Grpelind wane OChneOus! YellOw ne. ccqccsccsdsaslesvesresvecosteesiecns ss Cransverst, 
7110, Acontia emboloscia. (Plate CXCI. fig. 14.) 
Acontia emboloscia, Turner, P. Linn. Soe. N, 8. W. xxvii. p. 94 (1902). 
g. Head and thorax pale yellow; palpi and frons at sides 
fiery red; thorax with dorsal and lateral fiery red streaks; fore 
