720 NocTiriD^. 



a grey gloss, the costal area from inner margin near base to 

 near subterminal line white ; the costal edge grey towards base ; 

 two subbasal grey spots in cell ; antemedial line yellow on the 

 white area, then indistinct, dark, incurved ; orbicular and reniform 

 grey- black ringed with white, small, round, the latter with some 

 whitish in centre, the white below it forming a somewhat bidentate 

 mark at lower angle of cell ; traces of a sinuous dark medial line 

 from cell to inner margin; postmedial line yellowish on the white 

 area, then indistinct, dark, excurved from vein 6 to 4, then strongly 

 incurved ; subterminal line formed by white scales, obsolete at 

 middle and double towards inner margin, minutely dentate ; a fine 

 white line just before termen ; cilia white. Hind wing pale 

 yellow, the cilia white. 



Hah. Be. E. Aerica, Xikuyu (CrawsJiay), 1 c5' , Eb Urru (Betton), 

 3 d type. Evp. 30 millim. 



6089. Metapioplasta insocia. 



Acovtia insocia, Wlk. xii. 788 (1857) ; Hmpsn. Nat. Hist,. Sokotra, p. 324, 



pi. XX. f. 6. 

 Acontia concinmda, Wlk. xii. 789 (1857). 

 Acontia j)yralina., Wlk. xii. 789 (1857). 

 Acontia simo, Wllgrn. Wien. Eut. Mon. iv. p. 172 (1860). 

 Acontia cornifrons, Auriv. (Efy. Ak, Porh. xxxvi. (7) p. 67 (1879). 

 Ta-rache porphi/rea ( $ ),' Butl. P. Z. S. 1898, p. 420. 



(J. Head and thorax creamy white; fore tibiae and the tarsi 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen pale yellow, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing creamy white ; subbasal line brownish grey, 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line 

 brownish grey, double, waved, the inner line interrupted in cell ; 

 orbicular and reuiform small, with more or less incomplete annuli 



Fig. 206. — Metapioplasta insocia, (^ . |. 



of blackish scales, the former round, sometimes defined at sides 

 only, the latter elliptical and sometimes with some grey in centre ; 

 a brownish striga from middle of costa ; postmedial line repre- 

 sented by a brown striga from costa and an interrupted minutely 

 waved black line from vein 6 to inner margin, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4 ; terminal area purple- grey suffused in parts with 

 red-brown extending to before the postmedial line beyond the 

 reniform and below the cell ; traces of an interrupted white sub- 

 terminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal 



