20 ACONTIID.E. — EEASTEIID^. 



brown ; a large cupreous patch across tlie apical area, in shape nearly semicircular ; a slender 

 interrupted blackish sixbmarginal line, the first and fifth divisions of which are expanded into 

 small black spots: secondaries tinted with creamy yellowish; a submarginal grey stripe. 

 Under surface shining cream-colour ; primaries with a trace of the reniform spot and with a 

 marginal row of black dots ; otherwise immaculate. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 

 North China {Fortune) ; Nankow Pass [Swinhoe] . 



Acontia bimacula. (Plate XLV. fig. 8.) 

 Acontia bimacula, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xii. p. 796. n. 38 (1857). 



Silvery white : primaries above with the costal and external borders slightly yellowish ; 

 four black costal dots at regular intervals between the base and the end of the cell and 

 followed by an abbreviated forked stripe of almost a y shape, from either side of which to the 

 inner margin run two testaceous discal streaks, wavy and indistinct, and between them a 

 series of small blackish dots ; a submarginal black line, cut into short pieces by the white 

 veins ; a pale ochraceous or dead golden line : secondaries with slightly yellowish fringe ; a few 

 minute black dots on the margin ; crest of the frons dark brown. Primaries below with two or 

 three brown costal dots beyond the middle ; secondaries with two or three black dots as above ; 

 no other markings. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 



Hong-Kong {Bowring) . 



Acontia maculosa. (Plate XLVI. fig. 1.) 

 Acontia maculosa, Wallcer, Cat. Lep. HH. xii. p. 795. n. 35 (1857). 



Primaries above white, spotted with olive-green ; discoidal spots purplish, with white 

 centres ; a broad oblique undulating purplish-brown discal belt, dilated towards the inner 

 margin ; a sei-ies of seven marginal black dots, the third, fourth, and seventh larger than the 

 others and followed on the fringe by dusky spots ; fringe at apex dusky : secondaries shining 

 pearly pale brown, -with dusky border ; fringe testaceous, with its external two thirds dusky 

 from the second median branch to the apex : body white, tegulae and abdomen banded with 

 pale fuliginous : under surface pale shining stramineous, primaries clouded with blackish ; 

 fringe white, black-spotted. Expanse of wings 10 lines. 



China {Harrington). 



ERASTRIID^. 



Erastria stygia. (Plate XLVI. fig. 2.) 

 Erastria stygia, Butler, Ann. S,- Mag. Xat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i.p. 199 (1878). 



d . Allied to E. fuscula -. primaries black, with darker bands and lines as in E. fuscula, 



