656 



NOCTUIDiE. 



B. Fore wing of male without fringe of hair on vein 1 on underside. 

 a. Fore wing of male with the termen strongly excised above vein 2. 



7113. Acontia amata. 



Xanthodes amata, Wlk. xxxiii, 778 (1865). 



Xanihodes adxmco., Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 39 (1874). 



Head and tegulse white, the rest of thorax very pale yellow; 

 palpi at tips and sides of frons bright rufous ; pectus white, the 

 fore and mid tibiae rufous ; abdomen white with pale rufous dorsal 

 segmental lines. Fore wing very pale yellow ; small rufous medial 

 and postmedial spots below the costa ; a terminal olive-green line 

 except at apex ; cilia olive-brown mixed with leaden grey. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white, the termen ochreous except towards 



Fig. 269. — Acontia amata, 1^ . \. 



tornus ; the cilia tinged with grey-brown from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside with the apical area irrorated with a few black scales. 



Hah. Queensland, Cape York (/7?/7_(7iws), 1 S ■, Brisbane (Twrngr), 

 1 $ ; N. Australia (Bovill), 1 J , Port Darwin (BucJdand), 1 § , 

 Alexandria (Stalker), 1 c? ; W. Ausxka.lia (Diggles), 1 j type- 

 Exp. 38-48 millim. 



b. Fore wing of male with the termen not excised above vein 2. 



a' Hind wing uniform orange-yellow intersepta. 



i'. Hind wing with the basal area white congenita. 



7114. Acontia intersepta. 



Xanthodes intersepta., Guen. Noct. ii. p. 212 (1852) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 



p. 42, pi. 149. f. 3 ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 323. 

 Xanthodes duplicata, Wlk. xxxiii. 778 (1865). 



Xanthodes diffusa, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 53, pi. 4. f. 8 (1880). 

 Acontia imiiata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 42, pi. 149. f. 4 (1884). 



Head and tegulae white tinged with yellow ; thorax yellow ; 

 palpi except at base and frons red-brown ; fore tibia? rufous ; 

 pectus white ; abdomen orange-yellow. Fore wing yellow irrorated 

 with a few black scales : a wedge-shaped rufous patch from median 

 nervure before middle to termen on which it extends from apex to 

 vein 3 ; antemedial rufous points on subcostal nervure and vein 1 ; 

 a point at upper angle of cell ; postmedial line represented by a 



