ACONTTA. 659 
imparata, Jubbulpur, 1 2; Bompay, Kutch, 2 ¢, Bombay, 3 ¢, 
5 2, Poonah (Swinhoe), 1 2, Canara (Ward), 1 3, Mapras,1 do, 
Belgaum ( Watson), 1 9; Cuyton, Hambantota (Pole), 1 ¢; Burma, 
Myingyan (Watson),1 g. Exp, 24-38 millim. 
Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 263; Hffm. Raup, p. 140, pl. 36. f. 5. 
Whitish with lateral yellow spots; head yellow. Food-plants : 
Malva moschata and Lavatera olbia. 
B. Palpi of male not clothed with downturned hair in front. 
a. Fore wing with dark fascia on median nervure forking at 
loweranglevoticells a. semen cearatcsresateteaac cee meenaccse gephyrias. 
6, Fore wing with rufous streak in basal half of submedian fold dinarodes. 
c. Fore wing without streak on basal area ..........0....000008 graeltsi. 
*7117. Acontia gephyrias. (Plate CXCI. fig. 17.) 
Acontia gephyrias, Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxviii. p. 175 (1902). 
3. Head and tegule white, the thorax ochreous yellow; sides 
of palpi and frons rufous; pectus and base of legs white; abdomen 
white, dorsally tinged with brown towards base, the terminal 
segments with slight rufous bands. Fore wing pale lemon-yellow ; 
a dark brown fascia suffused with white scales from base along 
median nervure and above vein 4 to near termen, emitting a short 
fork below at lower angle of cell, and with three short streaks above 
its extremity from termen becoming short towards apex ; the costal 
edge rufous towards base; a slight rufous postmedial spot below 
costa and some rufous suffusion above the fascia in end of cell; a 
small black spot just below apex; cilia dark brown mixed with 
grey and with a fine dark line at middle. Hind wing semihyaline 
white ; a very slight terminal brown line except towards tornus, the 
cilia faintly tinged with brown at apex; the underside with the costal 
area slightly tinged with yellow and irrorated with a few brown 
scales towards apex. 
Hab, Aven (Muir), type t ¢ in Mus. Cambridge. Lap. 38 
millim. 
7118. Acontia dinarodes, n. sp. (Plate CXCTI. fig. 18.) 
2. Head and thorax pale ochreous yeilow; palpi, frons, and 
fore and mid tibia more rufous; abdomen pale ochreous with 
rufous dorsal segmental bands. Fore wing yellow irrorated with 
a few black scales; a rufous streak in basal half of submedian fold; 
a diffused rufous streak in discal fold from just before end of cell to 
the rufous suffusion on termen; a black point at lower angle of 
cell and a slight subterminal point below costa ; cilia rufous. Hind 
wing semihyaline white suffused with ochreous yellow except 
towards base; the underside with the costal area and terminal area 
to vein 2 tinged with ochreous and sparsely irrorated with blackish 
scales. 
Hab. Br. EK. Arrtca, Nairobi (Crawshay), 1 9 type. Hap. 
36 millim. 
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