748 NOCTUID^. 



Acontia maculosa, Wlk. xii. 795 (1857); Butl. 111. Het. B. M. iii. p. 20, 



pi. 46. f. 1. 

 Acontia bipunctata, Wlk. xii. 798 (1857). 



S . Head and thorax yellowish white mixed with reddish ochreous ; 

 antennae brownish; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white; 

 abdomen ochreous white with dorsal brown bands. Fore wing 

 yellowish white extending on costa to near apex and on inner 

 margin to middle, the terminal half olive-brown with some purplish 

 suffusion on postmedial area except towards costa and some yellowish 

 white on termen ; subbasal line represented by obliquely placed 

 olive-ochreous spots on costa and in cell ; a double diffused olive- 

 ochreous antemedial band interrupted in cell and somewhat oblique 

 below it ; orbicular and reniform small, grey-brown with white 



Fig. 209.— Tarache marmoralis, (S . f. 



centres, the former round, the latter elliptical ; an oblique olive- 

 ochreous bar from middle of costa and line from cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line olive-ochreous towards costa, rufous below vein 6, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line yellowish white defined on inner side by slight rufous marks 

 with some white scales before them, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, then bent inwards and oblique to tornus ; a terminal series 

 of small black spots except towards apex and tornus ; cilia yellowish 

 white with blackish patch above middle and some blackish at apex 

 and tornus. Hind wing ochreous white, the costa towards apex 

 and the termen to vein 2 tinged with red-brown ; cilia ochreous 

 white tinged with brown at base from apex to vein 2, the under- 

 side with brown discoidal spot, postmedial bar from costa and patch 

 at apex. 



$ . Ground-colour of head, thorax, and fore wing much whiter, 

 the dorsum of thorax grejdsh ; fore wing with the markings much 

 greyer and less olive, or with hardly any olive tinge ; hind wing 

 with the terminal area more broadly suffused with brown extending 

 to tornus. 



Hah. TjV. Egypt ; Loochoo Is. (Fryer), 1 ^ ; China {Harrington), 

 2 c? , 1 $ type maculosa ; Formosa (Hobson), 1 5 ; Ptjkjab, Simla 

 {Harford), 1 5 , Dharmsala {Hocking), 5 d , 3 5 , Almora {Boys), 

 2 5» Deyra Dhun, 1 c? , Allahabad, 1 cj' ; hab. ign., 1 (J type bi- 

 jcnmctata ; Sikhim, 1 (S , 1 $ ; Bengal, Calcutta, 1 d" , 1 $ 5 

 Madras, Nilgiris {Hampson), 1 cS , 1 $ ; Ceylon, Colombo {Nietner), 

 2 c?, Trincomali {Yei-bury), 1 $ ; JBtjkma, Rangoon {Scott), 1 $, 



