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Atacira smarti sp. n.
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Atacira smarti  (holotype)
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13mm, 15mm. The forewing ground colour is pale buff, mottled irregularly
with rich brown broadly over the medial area; the reniform is ringed with paler
colour than the ground and connected to the costa by an oblique dark brown bar;
the subapical costal triangle is dark brown and similarly edged with very pale
colour; the postmedial has a small central dentation and a dark shade at the
dorsum.
Holotype . SABAH: Mt. Kinabalu, W.
Mesilau River [1500m] 3.ii.1964 (J. Smart) Royal Soc. Exped., BM
1964-250.
Paratype . BRUNEI: 60m, Ulu Belait,
lowland forest, 21.2.80 (Lt. Col M.G. Allen).
Geographical range. Borneo; there is a series of somewhat similar
specimens in the BMNH from Sulawesi and Bali.
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