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ACONTIID^. 
following indistinct diffused markings : basal and subbasal bands; a medial band joined by a 
band from the costa near the apex; waved^ narrow, postmedial and submarginal black bands, 
and broken antecilial line. Hind wing with three submarginal waved bands, only distin- 
guishable near anal angle. Underside nearly uniform smoky grey. 
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ACONTIID.E. 
Acontia brunea. (Plate CXLV. fig. 11.) 
Expanse f inch. 
Male. Fore wing olive-brown, thickly mottled with dark brown ; two dark strigse on the 
costa, one subbasal, the other m.edial ; indistinct, waved, narrow, subbasal and medial bands ; 
another, highly irregular, from costa two thirds from base to outer angle ; an antecilial 
lunulate line. Ilind wing smoky, with dark antecilial line. Underside smoky ; fore wing 
ochreous along costa; hind wing with lunule at end of cell, and postmedial band. 
Acontia trigona. (Plate CXLV. fig. 4.) 
Expanse |- inch. 
Male. Fore wing brownish grey, mottled with pale and dark brown ; two dark-biown 
triangular patches, with their bases resting on the costa, one subbasal, the other medial, 
larger, and with three black spots at its apex round the reniform, which is pale brown ; 
a diffused, waved, indistinct submarginal band ; a series of antecilial spots. Hind wing 
dusky brown, with narrow antecilial line. Underside : fore wing dusky brown, ochreous 
towards apex ; a speck on costa two thirds from base ; hind wing whitish brown ; a spot at 
end of cell ; postmedial and submarginal bands and antecilial line. Head and collar brown ; 
antennae dusky ; thorax and abdomen brownish grey. 
Acontia umljrina. (Plate CXLV. fig. 15.) 
Expanse | inch. 
Male. Fore wing pale brown, with some red-brown bands along costa and outer margin, 
and an oblique one from apex to centre of inner margin ; reniform grey ; a grey band from 
costa just beyond the middle, curving out beyond the cell halfway to outer margin, then 
inwardly oblique to centre of inner margin ; cilia black. Hind wing fuscous. Underside 
smoky white ; an indistinct spot at end of cell, and postmedial band on hind wing. Head and 
thorax pale brown above ; antenna; and abdomen fuscous. 
Allied to A. plumbata, which is more ochreous and without the reniform spot. 
