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AECTIABJE. 



angled on vein 1 ; a wedge-shaped brown mark on costa towards 

 apex ; the termiual area with brownish suffusion and fine black 



Fig. lO.—Zia tactcdis, $ . i. 



streaks on the veins ; a terminal brown line ; cilia grey, with a 

 darker line through them. Hind wing suffused with brown. 



Hah. N. S. Walbs, Moreton Bay (D/ggles), 1 d" type, Sydney 

 (Darnel), 1 c? , 3 $ , type horridella, Eiy., J 30, § 34 millim, 



Sect. II. Palpi projecting about the length of head ; fore wing short and 

 broad. 



A. Fore wing with dark triangular patch on costa from base 



to end of cell acontioides. 



B. Fore wing with dark triangular patch from medial part of 



costa to below angle of cell laminafa. 



C. Fore wing without dark patches ; grey, with a lunulate black 



spot at upper angle of cell lunisigna. 



157. Zia acontioides. 



Pisara acontioides. Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 118 (18fi2) ; Swinh. 

 Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 132, pi. iv. f. 19 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 381. 



J . Silvery white ; palpi fuscous at sides ; abdomen tinged with 

 fuscous. Fore wing with triangular brown patch on costa, irrorated 

 with leaden silvery scales from base to middle of wing, and with 



tufts of brown and leaden scales 

 on it near base, at middle and 

 upper angle of cell ; a tuft of 

 white scales at lower angle of 



W'/^i ^^^^^s %k /^ ^^^^ ' ^ ^^^ brown scales forming 



'*■" ft\^^^^^:;x> M faint traces of a medial line ; tbe 



■^ postmedial line angled at vein 6, 



Fig. 21.— 2m acontioides, S ■ \- formed by bosses of leaden scales, 

 (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) the area beyond it fuscous except 



towards costa ; traces of a sub- 

 terminal line with leaden scales on it. Hind wing white, tinged 

 with fuscous towards termen. 



Hah. Ceylon, Nawalaj)itya (Green), 2 S ; Borneo, Sarawak 

 (Wallace), type t in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 20 millim. 



