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Sect. II. Male with the palpi more hairy in front; the tibiae 

 clothed with long hair ; the fore wing with the outer margin 

 more or less excised towards outer angle. 



2060. Acontia transversa, Guen. Nod. ii, p. 211, pi. 10, fig. 5. 



Xanthodes flava, C. fy S. no. 1805 (nee Fabr.) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 

 iii, pi. 149, figs. 2, 2 a (larva). 



Bright canary-yellow; palpi and legs red-brown; vertex of 

 thorax tinged with rufous. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial 

 highly angulated rufous lines, which are sometimes waved, the 



Fig. 173. — Acontia transversa, $. \. 



latter touching a submarginal angled line ; a large bright rufous 

 triangular patch occupying the whole outer area, and sometimes 

 produced backwards along median nervnre to the base, or occa- 

 sionally almost obsolete ; a black subapical speck • cilia rufous. 

 Hind wing slightly suffused with red-brown, the outer margin 

 rufous. 



Larva pale green, with a few very fine hairs ; subdorsal, lateral, 

 and sublateral series of white spots, the subdorsal series with a 

 larger yellow spot on each somite. 



Papa pale pinkish red. 



Hab. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java ; 

 Duke of York Isle. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



2061. Acontia intersepta, Gum. Noct. ii, p. 212 ; Moore, Lep. 

 iii, pi. 149, fig. 3 ; C. $ S. no. 1811. 

 Acontia imitata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 42, pi. 149, fig. 4 ; C.fyS. 

 no. 1837. 



Differs from transversa in having the palpi pure white in front ; 

 the vertex of head whitish; the thorax not tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing with the transverse lines reduced to a series of specks, 

 the antemedial series curved. 



Hab. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java. Exp. 

 44-50 millim. 



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