654: NOCTUIDiE. 



and mid tibiiDD fringed with fiery red hair ; abdomen j'ellow, Unged 

 with orange-red at base of dorsum. Fore wing yellow irroratcd 

 with a very few black scales ; the costal edge red-brown ; a wedge- 

 shaped red-brown patch from base of median nervure expanding 

 triangularly to termen below apex and above tornus, the veins on 

 it somewhat darker ; antemedial line red-brown, oblique from costa 

 to lower angle of cell where it is acutely angled, then inwardly 

 oblique and ending at vein 1 ; a point at upper angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line red-brown, oblique from costa to discal fold where 

 it is acutely angled, then inwardly oblique to middle of inner 

 margin, indistinct on the brown patch ; snbterminal line obliquely 

 bent outwards below apex, interrupted by the brown patch and 

 oblique and sinuous below it; cilia greyish brown. Hind wing 

 yellow tinged with orange, some brownish on termen between 

 veins 6 and 2 ; cilia grey-brown from apex to vein 2. 



5 . Abdomen and hind wing reddish orange. 



Hah. N. AusTEALiA [Bovill), 1 c5' ; QuEBisrsLiND, Towns ville 

 {Docld), 2 2 ■ ^'^T- ^ 50, 2 40 millim. 



*7ill. Acontia aroa. (Plate CXCI. fig. 15.) 



Acontia nroa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. siii. p. 210 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax bright yellow, the latter with dorsal fiery 

 rod fascia with brown streak through middle ; palpi and sides of 

 frons fiery red; antennae brownish except at base; shoulders and 

 fore and mid tibiae bright rufous ; abdomen fulvous yellow, the 

 basal crest fiery red, the ventral surface white. Fore wing bright 

 yellow with bright rufous wedge-shaped fascia from base to termen 

 on which it expands from beloAV apex to above tornus ; a fiery red 

 streak on inner margin except towards base ; a faint oblique dark 

 line from vein 4 near termen to submedian fold beyond middle ; 

 cilia fuscous. Hind wing orange-yellow, the termen tinged with 

 brown at middle ; cilia brown with a fine yellow line at base. 



Ilab. Br. New Guinea, Aroa 11., type t d in Coll. Eethune- 

 Baker. E.vjj. 44 millim. 



7112. Acontia transversa. 



Xantliorles transversa, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 211, pi. 10. f, 5 (1852) ; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 323. 

 Xanthodes migrator, Wlk. xii. 779 (1857). 



Acontia flava, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 42, pi. 149. ff. 2, 2ff (nee Fabr.). 

 Trikuca dentalis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 123 (1891) ; Dyar, 



Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 182. 



Head and thorax yellow ; palpi and frons at sides red-brown ; 

 vertex of thorax with a rnfous streak, the patagia with a few 

 blackish scales ; tibiae fringed with rufous hair ; abdomen yellow 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing yellow irrorated with a few black- 



