660 NOCTUID 2. 
7119. Acontia graellsi. 
Acontia graellsii, Feisth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 300, pl. 12. f. 3 (1887) ; 
Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 535, pl. 45. f.3; Mill. Icones. pl. 59. ff. 6, 7 ; 
Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 824; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224. 
Xanthodes innocens, Wik. xv. 1752 (1858). 
Xanthodes fimbriata, Wik. xxxiii. 777 (1865). 
Head and base of tegule white, the rest of thorax yellow; palpi 
at tips, frons, and antenne except at base red-brown; pectus 
white ; fore and mid tibie red-brown ; abdomen white with slight 
rufous dorsal segmental lines. Fore wing yellow irrorated with a 
few black scales; the costal edge rufous towards base; a more or 
less developed oblique diffused rufous fascia from termen below 
apex to median nervure at origin of vein 2; more or less prominent 
rufous antemedial, postmedial, and subterminal rufous points below 
the costa and a point at upper angle of cell; a red-brown terminal 
line; cilia grey-brown with a darker line through them. Hind 
wing semihyaline white, the terminal area and cilia more or less 
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1: 
suffused with brownish ochreous from apex to vein 2; the under- 
side with the costal area tinged with brownish ochreous, the apical 
area irrorated with a few black scales. 
‘Ab. 1. Fore wing with hardly a trace of the rufous markings. 
Hab. 8. Francu; Spatn, Catalonia, Zeller Coll., Castile, Frey and 
Leech Colls., Andalusia, Leech Coll.; Srerra Lronz (Foxcroft, 
Morgan), 1 3,12 type fimbriata ; Gop Coast, Kumasi ( Whitesrde), 
1 $; N.Nigeria, Minna (Macfie), 1 2 , Borgu, Yelwa Lake (Migeod), 
1 g; Axsyssinta, Atbara (Gerrard), 1 6; Br. E. Arrica, Nairobi 
(Crawshay), 1 3; Br. C. Arrica, Nyasa (Johnston), 1 ¢; Masuona- 
LAND, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 $, 1 2; Navat, Howich (Cregoe), 
1 Q, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 og, 1 2, Durban (Gooch), 1 3; 
Orance R, Cotony, Bloemfontein (Eckersley), 1 g 3 Mavririus: 
AvEN (Yerbury), 1 ¢,2 9; C. Curna, Ichang (rs. Pratt), 1 9; 
Pungas (Mrs. Hamilton, Hearsey), 2 3, 1 2 type innocens, 
Campbellpur ( Verbury), 1 9, Manpuri, 1 9; Sinp, 1 ¢: Bomsay, 
Kutch, 1 ¢; Burma, Myingyan (Watson), 1 g. Exp. 34-42 
millim. 
Larva, Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 263; Hffm. Raup. p. 140. 
Long and eylindrical; pale yellowish green dotted with black, 
reddish on dorsum, Food-plant: Lavatera olbia. 
