74 ACONTIID^. 



following indistinct diffused markings : basal and subbasal bands ; a medial band joined by a 

 band from the costa near tlic apex ; waved, narrow, postmedial and submarginal black bands, 

 and broken antecilial line. Hind wing with three submarginal waved bands, only distin- 

 guishable near anal angle. Underside nearly uniform smoky grey. 



ACONTIIDiE. 



Acontia bninea. (Plate CXLV. fig. 11.) 



Expanse f inch. 



Male. Fore wing olive-brown, thickly mottled with dark brown ; two dark strigae on the 

 costa, one subbasal, the other medial ; indistinct, waved, narrow, subbasal and medial bands ; 

 another, highly irregular, from costa two thirds from base to outer angle ; an antecilial 

 lunulate line. Hind wing smoky, with dark antecilial line. Underside smoky ; fore wing 

 ochreous along costa; bind wing with lunule at cud of cell, and postmedial band. 



Acontia trigona. (Plate CXLV. fig. 4.) 



Expanse f inch. 



Male. Fore wing brownish grey, mottled with pale and dark brown; two dark -brown 

 triangular patches, with their bases resting on the costa, one subbasal, the other medial, 

 larger, aud with three black spots at its apex round the reniform, which is pale brown ; 

 a diffused, waved, indistinct submarginal band ; a series of antecilial spots. Hind wing 

 dusky browu, with narrow antecilial line. Underside : fore wing dusky brown, ochreous 

 towards apex ; a speck on costa two thirds from base ; hind wing whitish browu ; a spot at 

 end of cell ; postmedial aud submarginal bands and antecilial line. Head aud collar brown ; 

 antenuie dusky ; thorax and abdomen brownish grey. 



Acontia uinbrina. (Plate CXLV. fig. 15.) 



Expanse | inch. 



Male. Fore wing pale brown, with some red-brown bands along costa and outer margin, 

 and an oblique one from apex to centre of inner margin ; reniform grey ; a grey band from 

 costa just beyond the middle, curving out beyond the cell halfway to outer margin, then 

 inwardly oblique to centre of inner margin ; cilia black. Hind wing fuscous. Underside 

 smoky white ; an indistinct spot at end of cell, and postmedial band on hind wing. Head and 

 thorax pale brown above ; antennae and abdomen fuscous. 



Allied to A. plumbata, which is more ochreous and without the reniform spot. 



