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ACONTIID^. — ERASTEIID^. 
brown ; a large cupreous patch across the apical area, in shape nearly semicircular ; a slender 
interrupted blackish submarginal line, the first and fifth divisions of which are expanded into 
small black spots : secondaries tinted with creamy yellowish ; a submarginal grey stripe. 
Under surface shining cream-colour ; primaries with a trace of the reniform spot and with a 
marginal row of black dots ; otherwise immaculate. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 
North China {Fortune) ; Nankow Pass {Swinhoe). 
Acontia bimacula. (Plate XLV. fig. 8.) 
Acontia bimacula, WalJcer, Cat. Le 2 :>. Ilet. xii. p. 796. n. 38 (1857). 
Silvery white ; primaries above with the costal and external borders slightly yellowish •, 
four black costal dots at regular intervals between the base and the end of the cell and 
followed by an abbreviated forked stripe of almost a y shape, from either side of which to the 
inner margin run two testaceous discal streaks, wavy and indistinct, and between them a 
series of small blackish dots ; a submarginal black line, cut into short pieces by the white 
veins ; a pale ochraceous or dead golden line ; secondaries with slightly yellowish fringe ; a few 
minute black dots on the margin ; crest of the frons dark brown. Primaries below with two or 
three brown costal dots beyond the middle ; secondaries with two or three black dots as above ; 
no other markings. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 
Hong- Kong {Bowring). 
Acontia maculosa. (Plate XLVI. fig. 1.) 
Acoutia maculosa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xii. p. 795. n. 35 (1857). 
Primaries above white, spotted with olive-green ; discoidal spots purplish, with white 
centres ; a broad oblique undulating purplish-brown discal belt, dilated towards the inner 
margin ; a series of seven marginal black dots, the third, fourth, and seventh larger than the 
others and followed on the fringe by dusky spots ; fringe at apex dusky : secondaries shining 
pearly pale brown, with dusky border ; fringe testaceous, with its external two thirds dusky 
from the second median branch to the apex : body white, tegulae and abdomen banded with 
pale fuliginous : under surface pale shining stramineous, primaries clouded with blackish ; 
fringe white, black-spotted. Expanse of wings 10 lines. 
China {Harrington) . 
ERASTRIID^. 
Erastria stygia. (Plate XLVI. fig. 2.) 
Erastria stygia, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i.p. 199 (1878). 
6 . Allied to E. fuscula : primaries black, with darker bands and lines as in E. fuscula, 
