A.CEONYCTA, / O 



blackish ; abdomen whitish sufFased with pale yellovv-broAvn, 

 Fore wing white almost entirely suffused with pale rufous ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a black striga from costa; a rather 

 diffused sinuous black streak in submedian fold from base to ante- 

 medial line which is double, the lines widely separated towards 

 costa, oblique, waved, with black point on the outer line in sub- 

 median fold with white streak from it to medial line ; orbicular 

 rather quadrate, extending to antemedial line and defined by an 

 oblique black striga on outer side ; reniform large', rather quadrate, 

 incompletely defined by black except above and with slight dark 

 lunule on inner side of centre ; a slight dark patch on middle of 

 costa and brownish line from cell to inner margin angled outwards 

 on vein 1 ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish lunules, 

 bent outward below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, crossed by a black streak in submedian fold 

 from medial to subterminal lines and with some brown suffusion 

 beyond it in discal and submedian folds; subterminal line formed 

 of ill-defined white iunules ; some slight black strise on termen 

 defined by whitish lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 pale red- brown ; an indistinct postmedial line defined by whitish 

 on outer side; the underside white tinged with red-brown, the 

 costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a brownish 

 patch on middle of costa, slight discoidal spot and diffused post- 

 medial line oblique and waved to vein 5, then incurved. 



Ab. 1. Greyer and irrorated with darker brown ; fore wing 

 with the white lunules on postmedial line smaller and less 

 distinct. — Travancore. 



Hah. Tk^vancore, Pirmad (Tmrai/), 1 $ ; Ceylon, Pundaloya 

 (Green), 3 d type. Exjy. d 38, $ 42 millim. 



*3652. Acronycta jancousci. 



Apatela jankowsJcii, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 69, pi. 7. f. 1 (1880); Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 132. 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with white and black-brown ; 

 palpi with the 2nd joint black at sides ; frons with black bars at 

 middle and above ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen brown, 

 the basal crest white tipped with black, the ventral surface grey 

 irrorated with black. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated with 

 brown ; a wedge-shaped black streak below base of cell, defined 

 by white above and with pure white spot at its extremity ; sub- 

 basal line represented by two black striae from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, oblique, waved ; medial area suffused with black 

 except from costa to median nervure beyond the antemedial line 

 and beyond the reniform ; orbicular white defined by black and 

 with brown point in centre, small, round; reniform whitish 

 defined by black and with brown lunule in centre ; an indistinct 

 double minutely waved medial line ; postmedial line double, black, 



