654 NOCTUID A, 
and mid tibia fringed with fiery red hair; abdomen yellow, tinged 
with orange-red at base of dorsum. Fore wing yellow irrorated 
with a very few black scales; the costal edge red-brown ; a wedge- 
shaped red-brown patch from base of median nervure expanding 
triangularly to termen below apex and above tornus, the veins on 
it somewhat darker ; antemedial line red-brown, oblique from costa 
to lower angle of ecll where it is acutely angled, then inwardly 
oblique and ending at vein 1; a point at upper angle of cell; 
postmedial line red-brown, oblique from costa to discal fold where 
it is acutely angled, then inwardly oblique to middle of inner 
margin, indistinct on the brown patch; subterminal line obliquely 
bent outwards below apex, interrupted by the brown patch and 
oblique and sinuous below it; cilia greyish brown. Hind wing 
yellow tinged with orange, some brownish on termen between 
veins 6 and 2; cilia grey-brown from apex to vein 2. 
Q@. Abdomen and hind wing reddish orange. 
Hab. N. Avsrratta (Bovill), 1 3 ; QuEENnstanp, Townsville 
(Dodd), 2 9. Exp. S 50, 2 40 millim. 
*7111. Acontia aroa. (Plate CXCI. fig. 15.) 
Acontia aroa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 210 (1906). 
3. Head and thorax bright yellow, the latter with dorsal fiery 
red fascia with brown streak through middle; palpi and sides of 
frons fiery red; antenne brownish except at base; shoulders and 
fore and mid tibie bright rufous; abdomen fulvous yellow, the 
basal erest fiery red, the ventral surface white. Fore wing bright 
yellow with bright rufous wedge-shaped fascia from base to termen 
on which it expands from below apex to above tornus ; a fiery red 
streak on inner margin except towards base; a faint oblique dark 
line from vein 4 near termen to submedian fold beyond middle; 
cilia fuscous. Hind wing orange-yellow, the termen tinged with 
brown at middle; cilia brown with a fine yellow line at base. 
Hab. Br. New Guinea, Aroa R., type f ¢ in Coll, Bethune- 
Baker. LZvp. 44 millim., 
7112. Acontia transversa. 
NXanthodes transversa, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 211, pl. 10. f, 5 (1852); Hmpsn. 
Moths Ind. ii. p. 323. 
NXanthodes migrator, Wik. xii. 779 (1857). 
Acontia flava, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 42, pl. 149. ff. 2, 2@ (nec Fabr.). 
Trileuca denéalis, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 123 (1891) ; Dyar, 
Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 182. 
Head and thorax yellow; palpi and frons at sides. red-brown ; 
vertex of thorax with a rufous streak, the patagia with a few 
blackish scales ; tibie fringed with rufous hair; abdomen yellow 
tinged with rufous. Fore wing yellow irrorated with a few black- 
