658 NOCTUID ©. 
Seer. IT, Fore wing of male with the termen evenly curved. 
A. Palpi of male clothed with downturned hair in front. 
7116. Acontia malve. 
Noctua malve, Esp. Schmeté. iv. 2. p. 63, pl. 195. f. 4 (1796); Hibn. Eur. 
Schmett., Noet. f. 858 ; Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iit. p. 538, pl. 45, f.2; Frr. 
Neue Beitr. pl. 149. f. 4; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 221 ; 
Mill. Icones, ii. pl. 84. ff. 3-7; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 322; Staud. 
Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224. 
NXanthodes stramen, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 210 (1852). 
Nanthia imparata, Wik. x. 467 (1856). 
Xanthodes impellens, Wik. xv. 1752 (1858). 
AXanthodes inefficiens, Wik. xv. 1752 (1858). 
¢. Head white; thorax pale yellow; palpi, frons, antenne, 
fore and mid tibiz and tarsi tinged with brown; abdomen white 
dorsally tinged with ochreous except at base and with rufous dorsal 
segmental lines. Fore wing yellow irrorated with a few black 
scales; a brown point at base of costa; an oblique waved rufous 
antemedial line, excurved below costa and forming a small brown 
spet on costa; reniform small, oblique elliptical, rufous with slight 
whitish centre ; postmedial line rufous, forming a small brown spot 
at costa, excurved beyond the cell, then incurved and slightly 
sinuous and excurved at vein 1; subterminal line slight, excurved 
below costa, then rather diffused and bent outwards to tornus ; two 
Fig. 271.—Acontia malve, S$. 4. 
blackish points before termen at veins 4, 3; the termen and cilia 
red-brown with some blackish and grey between vein 4 and 
submedian fold. Hind wing semihyaline white, the termen and 
cilia tinged with ochreous from apex to vein 2; the underside with 
the costal area sparsely irrorated with black scales. 
®. Fore wing with the reniform absent, a wedge-shaped patch 
of rufous suffusion from end of cell to termen on which it extends 
from apex to tornus; hind wing with the termen more suffused 
with yellow. 
Hab, Sratn, Catalonia, Frey Coll., Castille, Zeller and Leech 
Colls.; Cenrr. Irary; Srcrty, Leech Coll.; Aterrra; Darmatia ; 
Socorra, Hadibu Plain (0.-Grant),1 ¢; Br. E. Arrica, Taveta 
(Rogers), 1 6, 1 2; Narat, 1 9; Comoro Is., Gloriosa (Meade- 
Waldo), 1 3; Formosa, Takow (Hobson), 1 9; Punsan (Hearsey), 
1 $, 1 Q types «efficiens and impellens, Kulu, Sultanpur 
(G. Young), 1 2, Simla (Harford), 1 9, Almorah (Boys), 1 ¢ type 
