ACONTIA. 659 



imparata, Jubbulj)ur, 1 5 ! Bombay, Kutch, 2 S , Bombay, 3 S , 

 5 5 5 Poonab {Swinhoe), 1 $ , Canara ( Ward), 1 c? , Madras, 1 S , 

 Belgaum ( Watson), 1 $ ; CErLow, Hambanfcota (Pole), 1 J ; Burma, 

 Myingy an (Watson),! c? . ^.rp. 24-38 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 263 ; Hffrn. Eaup, p. 140, pi. 36. f. 5. 



Wbitish witb lateral yellow spots ; bead yellow. Food-plants : 

 Malua moscJiata and Lavatera olbia. 



B. Palpi of male not clothed with downturned hair in front. 



a. Fore wing with dark fascia on median nervure forking at 



lower angle of cell gephyrias. 



b. Fore wing with rufous streak in basal half of submedian fold dinarode>t. 



c. Fore wing without streak on basal area graellsi. 



*7117. Acontia gephyrias. (Plate CXCI. fig. 17.) 



Acontia gephyrias, Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxviii. p. 175 (1902). 



S . Head and tegulae wbite, the tborax ocbreous yellow ; sides 

 of palpi and frons rufous ; pectus and base of legs white ; abdomen 

 white, dorsally tinged with brown towards base, the terminal 

 segments with slight rufous bands. Pore wing pale lemon-yellow ; 

 a dark brown fascia suffused with white scales from base along 

 median nervure and above vein 4 to near termen, emitting a short 

 fork below at lower angle of cell, and with three short streaks above 

 its extremity from termen becoming short towards apex ; the costal 

 edge rufous towards base ; a slight rufous postmedial spot below 

 eosta and some rufous suffusion above the fascia in end of cell ; a 

 small black spot just below apex ; cilia dark brown mixed with 

 grey and with a fine dark lino at middle. Hind wing semihyaline 

 "white ; a very slight terminal brown line except towards tornus, the 

 cilia faintly tinged with brown at apex; the underside with the costal 

 area slightly tinged with yellow and irrorated with a few brown 

 scales towards apex. 



Hah. Aden (Muir), type f 6 in Mus. Cambridge. Exp. 38 

 millim, 



7118. Acontia dinarodes, n. sp. (Plate CXCI. fig. 18.) 



$ . Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow ; palpi, frons, and 

 fore and mid tibiae more rufous ; abdomen pale ochreous with 

 rufous dorsal segmental bands. Fore wing yellow irrorated with 

 a few black scales ; a rufous streak in basal half of submedian fold; 

 a diffused rufous streak in discal fold from just before end of cell to 

 the rufous suffusion on termen ; a black point at lower angle of 

 cell and a slight subterminal point below costa ; cilia rufous. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white suffused with ocbreous yellow except 

 towards base ; the underside with the costal area and terminal area 

 to vein 2 tinged with ochreous and sparsely irrorated with blackish 

 scales. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Nairobi (CraivsJuoj), 1 5 type. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



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