. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 748 NOCTUID^. Acontia maculosa, Wlk. xii. 795 (1857); Butl. 111. Het. B. M. iii. p. 20, pi. 46. f. 1. Acontia bipunctata, Wlk. xii. 798 (1857). S . Head and thorax yellowish white mixed with reddish ochreous; antennae brownish; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen ochreous white with dorsal brown bands. Fore wing yellowish white extending on costa to near apex and on inner margin to middle, the terminal half olive-brown with some purplish suffusion on postmedial area except towards costa and some yellowi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 748 NOCTUID^. Acontia maculosa, Wlk. xii. 795 (1857); Butl. 111. Het. B. M. iii. p. 20, pi. 46. f. 1. Acontia bipunctata, Wlk. xii. 798 (1857). S . Head and thorax yellowish white mixed with reddish ochreous; antennae brownish; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen ochreous white with dorsal brown bands. Fore wing yellowish white extending on costa to near apex and on inner margin to middle, the terminal half olive-brown with some purplish suffusion on postmedial area except towards costa and some yellowish white on termen ; subbasal line represented by obliquely placed olive-ochreous spots on costa and in cell; a double diffused olive- ochreous antemedial band interrupted in cell and somewhat oblique below it; orbicular and reniform small, grey-brown with white. Fig. 209.— Tarache marmoralis, (S. f. centres, the former round, the latter elliptical; an oblique olive- ochreous bar from middle of costa and line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line olive-ochreous towards costa, rufous below vein 6, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line yellowish white defined on inner side by slight rufous marks with some white scales before them, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then bent inwards and oblique to tornus ; a terminal series of small black spots except towards apex and tornus ; cilia yellowish white with blackish patch above middle and some blackish at apex and tornus. Hind wing ochreous white, the costa towards apex and the termen to vein 2 tinged with red-brown; cilia ochreous white tinged with brown at base from apex to vein 2, the under- side with brown discoidal spot, postmedial bar from costa and patch at apex. $ . Ground-colour of head, thorax, and fore wing much whiter, the dorsum of thorax grejdsh ; fore wing with the markings much greyer and less olive, or with hardly any olive tinge; hind wing with the terminal area more broad
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