658 N0CTIJTD.T5. 



Sect. II. Fore wing of male with the tennen evenly curved, 

 A. Palpi of male clothed with downturned hair in front. 



7116, Acontia malvae. 



Koctua malvcB, Esp. Schmett. iv. 2. p. 63, pi. 19.5. f. 4 (1796) ; Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 3-58 ; Dup. Lep. ¥r. Suppl. iii. p. 533, pi. 45. f. 2 ; Frr. 



Neue Beitr. pi. 149. f. 4; Herr.-SchafF. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 221 ; 



Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 84. ff. 3-7 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 322 ; Staud. 



Cat, Lep. pal. p. 224. 

 Xanthodes siramen, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 210(1852). 

 Xanthia imparata, Wlk. x. 467 ( 1856). 

 Xanthodes impcUens, Wlk. xv. 1752 (1858). 

 Xanthodes inefficiens, Wlk. xv. 1752 (1858). 



S . Head white ; thorax pale j'ellow ; palpi, frons, antennoe, 

 fore and mid tibiae and tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen white 

 dorsally tinged with ochreous except at base and with rufous dorsal 

 segmental lines. Pore 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 

 spot 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 malvcp, cJ. r- 



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. 



5 . 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. 



Hah. Spain, Catalonia, Prey Coll., Castille, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls. ; Cenir. Italy ; Sicilt, Leech Coll. ; Algeria ; Dalmatia ; 

 SocoTRA, Hadibu '^l&in {0.-Orant),l J; Br. E. Aerica, Taveta 

 {Rogers), 1^,1$; Natal, 1 $ ; Comoro Is., Gloriosa {Meade- 

 Waldo), 1 S ; Formosa, Takow {Hohson), 1 § ; Punjab {Hearsey), 

 1 J 5 1 5 types inefficiens and impellens, Tvulu, Sultanpur 

 {G. Young), 1 $ , Simla {Harford), 1 $ , Almorah (5oys), 1 J type 



