656 NOCTUIDAE. 
B. Fore wing of male without fringe of hair on vein 1 on underside. 
a. Fore wing of male with the termen strongly excised above vein 2. 
7113. Acontia amata. 
NXanthodes amata, Wik. xxxiii. 778 (1865). 
Xanthodes adunca, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 108. f. 39 (1874). 
Head and tegule white, the rest of thorax very pale yellow; 
palpi at tips and sides of frons bright rufous ; pectus white, the 
fore and mid tibie rufous ; abdomen white with pale rufous dorsal 
segmental lines. Fore wing very pale yellow ; small rufous medial 
and postmedial spots below the costa; a terminal olive-green line 
except at apex; cilia olive-brown mixed with leaden grey. Hind 
wing semihyaline white, the termen ochreous except towards 
is ¢ - 1 
Fig. 269.—Acontia amata, 3. j- 
tornus; the cilia tinged with grey-brown from apex to vein 2; the 
underside with the apical area irrorated with a few black scales. 
Hab. QunEnstanp, Cape York (Higgins), 1 3, Brisbane (Zurner), 
1 9; N. Ausrratra (Bovill), 1 ¢, Port Darwin (Buckland), 1 9, 
Alexandria (Stalker), 1 g¢; W. Ausrratra (Diggles), 1 g type. 
Exp. 38-48 millim. 
6. Fore wing of male with the termen not excised above vein 2. 
@ Hind wing uniform orange-yellow ....... Sobed Sponeoscoanuesabes intersepta. 
b', Hind wing with the basal area white .........-..:..+s-eeeeeee .. congenila. 
7114. Acontia intersepta. 
NXanthodes intersepta, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 212 (1852) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 
p. 42, pl. 149. f. 3; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 323. ‘ 
Xanthodes duplicata, W\k. xxxiii. 778 (1868). 
Xanthodes diffusa, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 53, pl. 4. f. 8 (1880). 
Acontia imitata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 42, pl. 149. f. 4 (1884). 
Head and tegule white tinged with yellow; thorax yellow; 
palpi except at base and frons red-brown; fore tibie rufous ; 
pectus white ; abdomen orange-yellow. Fore wing yellow irrorated 
with a few black scales: a wedge-shaped rufous patch from median 
nervure before middle to termen on which it extends from apex to 
vein 3; antemedial rufous points on subcostal nervure and vein 1 ; 
a point at upper angle of cell; postmedial line represented by a 
