SETOCXEJTA. — ACONTIA. 653 



margin ; postmedial line brown, oblique from costa to below vein 7 

 and inwardly oblique below vein 5. Hind wing semihj'aline 

 ocbreous white, the terminal area tinged with rufous ; cilia yellowish 

 at base. 



Hab. Gekm. "W. Africa, Swakop li., type t c5" in Mus. Stock- 

 holm. Exp. 28 millim. 



*7109. ? Setoctena poUa. 



Leocyma 2ooUa, Schaiis. Lep. S. Leone, p. 35, pi. ii. f. 11 (1903). 



Head and tegulte yellow; thorax and abdomen white faintly 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing silvery white, the termen slightly 

 tinged with brown ; a somewhat darker medial band defined by 

 slightly waved dark lines and somewhat oblique from costa to 

 discat fold where it is angled outwards ; a dark subterminal shade, 

 somewhat expanding at costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 

 and incurved at discal and submedian folds. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline white tinged with brown especially towards termen. 



Hah. Sierra Leone, type in Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Exp. 

 24 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



Genus ACONTIA. 



Tyo 



Acontia, Ocbs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 91 (1816), non descr. Treit. 



Schmett. Eur. t (3) p. 237 (1826) malvce. 



Xanthodes, Gruen. Noct. ii. p, 209 (1852) malvce. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, rather slenderly 

 scale;!, in male typically elotlied with downturned hair in front, the 2nd joint 

 reaching to vertex of head, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of hair 

 above; eyes large, round ; antennffi of male ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly 

 with scales and without crests ; tibije fringed with longhair in male ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 typically evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell; 6 from upper angle : 7, 8 stalked ; 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with the termen somewhat excised below vein 4, 

 the palpi clothed with downturned hair in front. 



A. Fore wing of male with a fringe of long upturned hair on 

 vein 1 from base to middle on underside. 



a. Hind wing orange-yellow. 



ay. Fore wing with the autemedial line present emholoscia. 



b^. Fore wing with the antemedial line absent aroa. 



b. Hind wing ochreous yellow transversa. 



7110. Acontia emholoscia. (Plate CXCI. fig. 14.) 



Acontia emboloscia, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 94 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax pale yellow ; palpi and frons at sides 

 fiery red ; thorax with dorsal and lateral fiery red streaks ; fore 



