ACONTIA. 323 



SECT. II. Male with the palpi more hairy in front; the tibiae 

 clothed with long hair ; the fore wing with the outer margin 

 more or less excised towards outer angle. 



2060. Acontia transversa, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 211, pi. 10, fig. 5. 



Xanthodes flava, C. $ S. no. 1805 (nee Fabr.) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl 

 iii, pi. 149, figs. 2, 2 a (larva). 



Bright canary-yellow; palpi and legs red-brown; vertex of 

 thorax tinged with rufous. Eore wing with ante- and postmedial 

 highly angulated rufous lines, which are sometimes waved, the 



Fig. 173. Acontia transversa, $. \. 



latter touching a submarginal angled line ; a large bright rufous 

 triangular patch occupying the whole outer area, and sometimes 

 produced backwards along median nervure to the base, or occa- 

 sionally almost obsolete ; a black subapical speck ; cilia rufous. 

 Hind wing slightly suffused with red-brown, the outer margin 

 rufous. 



Larva pale green, with a few very fine hairs ; subdorsal, lateral, 

 and sublateral series of white spots, the subdorsal series with a 

 larger yellow spot on each somite. 



Papa pale pinkish red. 



Hob. China; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Java; 

 Duke of Tork Isle. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



2061. Acontia intersepta, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 212; Moore, Lep. Ceyl 



iii, pi. 149, fig. 3 ; C.SfS. no. 1811. 



Acontia imitata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 42, pi. 149, fig. 4 ; C. Sf S. 

 no. 1837. 



Differs from transversa in having the palpi pure white in front ; 

 the vertex of head whitish; the thorax not tinged with rufous. 

 Tore wing with the transverse lines reduced to a series of specks, 

 the antemedial series curved. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Java. Kvp. 

 44-50 millim. 



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