::The Moths of Borneo::

SUBFAMILY EUSTROTIINAE

Maliattha marginalis Walker (Plate 3, Figs 101, 113)

�� Acontia marginalis Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.,
�� 33: 782.
�� Maliattha stolasa Swinhoe, 1905, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 15: 154.

Diagnosis. The forewings are golden brown with darker shading and whitish highlights, the latter lining the postmedial and antemedial fasciae at their costal and dorsal ends and occurring on the distal margin centrally. The two fasciae are strongly curved, concave basad, and the area basal to the antemedial is paler than the rest of the wing.

Geographical range. Indian Subregion, Borneo, Java.

Habitat preference. The species was described from material collected by A.R. Wallace in Sarawak, probably in the lowlands. There is a specimen also from Pulo Laut. The only recently collected specimens are a singleton from secondary forest at Semongok in the lowlands of Sarawak near Kuching, six (two retained) from primary forest at 170m near the Danum Valley Field Centre in Sabah (S.J. Willott, unpublished data) and five taken in softwood plantations near Brumas in the lowlands of Sabah (Chey, 1994).

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