. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 656 NOCTUIDiE. B. Fore wing of male without fringe of hair on vein 1 on underside. a. Fore wing of male with the termen strongly excised above vein 2. 7113. Acontia amata. Xanthodes amata, Wlk. xxxiii, 778 (1865). Xanihodes adxmco., Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 39 (1874). Head and tegulse white, the rest of thorax very pale yellow; palpi at tips and sides of frons bright rufous ; pectus white, the fore and mid tibiae rufous ; abdomen white with pale rufous dorsal segmental lines. Fore wing very pale yellow ; small rufous me
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 656 NOCTUIDiE. B. Fore wing of male without fringe of hair on vein 1 on underside. a. Fore wing of male with the termen strongly excised above vein 2. 7113. Acontia amata. Xanthodes amata, Wlk. xxxiii, 778 (1865). Xanihodes adxmco., Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 39 (1874). Head and tegulse white, the rest of thorax very pale yellow; palpi at tips and sides of frons bright rufous ; pectus white, the fore and mid tibiae rufous ; abdomen white with pale rufous dorsal segmental lines. Fore wing very pale yellow ; small rufous medial and postmedial spots below the costa; a terminal olive-green line except at apex ; cilia olive-brown mixed with leaden grey. Hind wing semihyaline white, the termen ochreous except towards. Fig. 269.âAcontia amata, 1^. \. tornus ; the cilia tinged with grey-brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the apical area irrorated with a few black scales. Hah. Queensland, Cape York (/7?/7_(7iws), 1 S â , Brisbane (Twrngr), 1 $ ; N. Australia (Bovill), 1 J, Port Darwin (BucJdand), 1 § , Alexandria (Stalker), 1 c?; W. (Diggles), 1 j type- Exp. 38-48 millim. b. Fore wing of male with the termen not excised above vein 2. a' Hind wing uniform orange-yellow intersepta. i'. Hind wing with the basal area white congenita. 7114. Acontia intersepta. Xanthodes intersepta., Guen. Noct. ii. p. 212 (1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 42, pi. 149. f. 3; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 323. Xanthodes duplicata, Wlk. xxxiii. 778 (1865). Xanthodes diffusa, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 53, pi. 4. f. 8 (1880). Acontia imiiata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 42, pi. 149. f. 4 (1884). Head and tegulae white tinged with yellow; thorax yellow; palpi except at base and frons red-brown ; fore tibia? rufous ; pectus white ; abdomen orange-yellow. Fore wing yellow irrorated with a few black scales: a wedge-shaped rufous patch from median nervure before middle to termen on which it extends from a
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