402 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



33. Acontia clarissa, n. s. 



General pattern of A. Komaga, but smaller and with yellow 

 instead of white basal area and costal spot; primaries with the 

 basal half pale creamy yellow, irregularly variegated with chrome- 

 yellow; the inner border and two or three longitudinal costal 

 dashes leaden grey ; external half purplish brown internally, pale 

 reddish brown externally, the division between the two halves of 

 the wing oblique and biangulated; reniform spot indistinct, 

 yellowish, followed by a blackish >-shaped character; a small 

 yellowish white costal spot at apical fourth; a very indistinct 

 submarginal zigzag whitish line ; fringe white, flecked with black 

 towards apex, and with a brown patch at external angle ; secondaries 

 bronze-brown, with the basal half pale ; fringe tipped with white ; 

 thorax yellow in front, greyish behind ; abdomen whity brown, 

 with a dusky dorsal stripe ; under surface as in the preceding 

 species. Expanse of wings, 24 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



34. Acontia conchidia, n. s. 



Primaries above chalky white ; costal margin to the end of the 

 cell divided into three equal parts by small black dots ; edge of 

 costal margin black; an abbreviated black-speckled brown band, 

 with undulated internal and dentate -sinuate external margin from 

 the inner margin to the base of the third median branch, a small 

 spot similarly coloured just above the median vein, from which a 

 straight line of black runs across the cell to the subcostal vein ; a 

 large irregular French-blue patch, with black external border 

 immediately beyond the cell ; a subsigmoidal discal bronze-brown 

 stripe varied with plumbageous across the disc ; external border 

 narrow, of the same colours, excepting that the brown is of a more 

 orange tint ; a marginal series of small black spots ; fringe white, 

 traversed by central and external greyish stripes, and spotted at 

 the extremities of the veins with sandy brown ; secondaries cream- 

 coloured, with diffused golden brown external border and white 

 fringe spotted towards apex with golden brown ; thorax white, 

 abdomen testaceous ; wings below creamy white with brassy 

 reflections, primaries with a brown spot on the inner margin near 

 external angle ; secondaries with a brown apical spot ; body below 

 pearl-white ; venter with lateral blackish dots and pale stramineous 

 anal tuft. Expanse of wings, 28 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



