ACONTIA. CI 



ACONTIID.E. 



ACONTIA, Uchs. 



Acontia plebeia. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 3.) 



Fuliginous brown : primaries with the basal third dull whitish^ sprinkled with testaceous 

 and brown scales^ bounded in the centre of its outer edge by a bisinuated blackish marking ; 

 reniform spot whitish, witli black margin and central brownish litura; an ochreous spot 

 beyond it, and above the latter a cuneiform costal patch ; submarginal and marginal series 

 of blackish spots and a white-edged blackish stripe on the fringe : secondaries uniformly 

 coloured, with the fringe white^ traversed by a blackish stripe and tipped with blackish : Ijody 

 whitish. Under surface greyish brown, with golden reflections, mottled and irrorated with 

 whitish ; a slender interrupted black marginal line ; fringe as above : primaries with ochreous 

 costal margin : palpi and collar ochraeeous. Expanse of wings 22 millini. 



Dharmsala. 



Acontia plumbata. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 4.) 



Primaries pale golden stramineous ; the basal two sevenths of the costal border leaden 

 grey, opposite to the extremity of which is a fragment of a black-edged pink stripe shot with 

 leaden grey and representing the inner line of the central belt ; the outer line represented l)y 

 a complete angulated and undulated stripe of the same character, from which an oblique 

 dusky streak runs to apex ; an almost marginal irregular leaden-grey streak ; three or four 

 costal grey dots towards apex ; a series of short black dashes along the outer margin ; fringe 

 whity brown glossed with gold, traversed by a black-edged greyish stripe and edged with 

 grey : secondaries pale dead golden ; fringe pale yellow at base, with a central grey stripe 

 and white outer edge : body pale golden stramineous ; head, collar, and anus testaceous. 

 Under surface creamy whitish, with golden reflections : primaries broadly suffused with grey; 

 indications of a postmedian discal grey stripe followed on the costa by grey spots as above ; 

 a marginal series of blackish spots; fringe paler than above: secondaries irrorated with 

 grey; a brownish discocellular spot and angulated discal stripe; a slender interrupted 

 black marginal line ; fringe with a grey central stripe and outer edge ; tarsi banded above 

 with grey. Expanse of wings 23 millim. 



Dharmsala ; taken by beating. 



Acontia escisa. (Plate CXXIX. figs. 5, 0.) 

 Nearest to A. sigiiiferu = siihfixa; smaller: the base of primaries rather broadly sepia- 



