322 NOCTTTIDJE. 



medial line angled at vein 6 and slightly curved towards inner 

 margin ; curved submarginal and marginal lines. Abdomen and 

 hind wing brighter yellow. 



Hob. Moulmein. Exp. 38millim. 



2058. Cosmia ochracea, n. sp. 



$ . Ochreous. Pore wing irrorated with a few black scales ; a 

 waved antemedial erect line ; a postmedial crenulate line, slightly 

 angled and regularly excurved beyond the cell ; a submarginal 

 irregularly crenulate line, with a series of dark specks beyond it ; 

 the cilia fuscous. Hind wing orange-} r ellow, especially towards 

 outer margin. Underside with small cell-spots. 



Hob. E. Pegu, 5000 feet (Doherty). Exp. 40 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



Genus ACONTIA. 



Acontia, Och*. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 91 (1816). 

 Xanthodes, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 209 (1852). 



Type, A. malvce, Esper. 



Range. Universally distributed in the tropical, subtropical, and 

 warmer temperate zones. 



Palpi long, porrect, and met by a short sharp frontal tuft, the 

 3rd joint prominent ; antenna simple ; thorax and abdomen 

 smoothly scaled and wdthout tufts. Tore wing with the cilia non- 

 crenulate ; veins 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked. 



Larvae with four pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



SECT. I. Male with the palpi smoothly scaled in front ; the tibiae 

 not hairy ; the fore wing not excised towards outer angle. 



2059. Acontia malvae, Esper, Schmett. iv, 2, p. 63, pi. 195, fig. 4. 

 Xanthodes stramen, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 210 ; C. fy S. no. 1812. 



1808. 

 1809. 



Head whitish ; thorax bright canary-yellow ; abdomen ochreous. 

 Fore wing bright canary -yellow, with an oblique waved antemedial 

 line ; reniform oval, with a brown outline or often obsolete ; a 

 postmedial line highly excurved beyond the cell and angled towards 

 inner margin ; two submargiual lines, the inner line angled below 

 the costa ; a large diffused triangular patch extending over the 

 whole of the outer area, its apex running up to the costa at the 

 postmedial line. Hind wing iridescent white, sometimes suffused 

 with brownish or ochreous, or with the apical area only brownish 

 or ochreous. 



Hab. Europe; Formosa; throughout India. Exp. 30-36 

 millim. 



