. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ACONTIA. 65'; striga below costa and point on vein 1, the subterminal line by an oblique striga below costa and striga from lower edge of the patch connected with termen by a streak below vein 3; an oblique black striga just below apex ; the termen rufous ; cilia grey-brown with a slight waved dark line through them. Hind wing orange ; the cilia grey-brown from apex to vein 2; the underside with a few black scales on apical Fig. 270.—Acontia intursepta, J*. \, Ab. 1. imitata. Fore wing with the wedge-shaped patch reduc
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ACONTIA. 65'; striga below costa and point on vein 1, the subterminal line by an oblique striga below costa and striga from lower edge of the patch connected with termen by a streak below vein 3; an oblique black striga just below apex ; the termen rufous ; cilia grey-brown with a slight waved dark line through them. Hind wing orange ; the cilia grey-brown from apex to vein 2; the underside with a few black scales on apical Fig. 270.—Acontia intursepta, J*. \, Ab. 1. imitata. Fore wing with the wedge-shaped patch reduced to an fascia from termen below apex to median nervure at origin of vein 2, the other markings often more or less reduced. Hab. Formosa, 1 5 ; Punjab {James), 1 § , Kangra {Hocking), 1 6 ; Bengal, Calcutta, 1 $ ; Ceylon, 1 $ type imitata; Burma, Moulmein {Clerk), 2 §; Andamans, 5 $; Nicobars, 1 J; Siam, type t duplkata in Mus. Oxon.; Philippines, Luzon, San Fernando {McGregor), 1 ^ ; Java {Horsfield), 1 $ ; Celebes. Exp. 34-50 millim. 7115. Acontia congenita, n. sp. (Plate CXCI. fig. 16.) Head and base of tegute white, the rest of thorax yellow; palpi except at base and in front rufous ; pectus white; fore and mid tibiae rufous; abdomen reddish ochreous, the base and ventral surface white, slight dorsal rufous segmental lines. Fore wing- yellow irrorated with a few black scales ; a broad diffused oblique rufous fascia from termen below apex to median nervure at origin of vein 2 ; traces of rufous antemedial points on subcostal nervure and vein 1; a point at upper angle of cell and postmedial points below costa and in submedian fold; a subterminal point below costa; the termen rufous ; cilia grey-brown with a slight waved dark line through them. Hind wing orange-yellow, the basal area semihyaline white ; cilia brown at middle ; the underside white, the costal area and termen to vein 2 sufFus(}d with orange-j'ellow, the costal area irrorated with a few black scal
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