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7119. Acontia graellsi. 



Aeontia graelhii, Feisth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 300, pi. 12. f. 3(1837) ; 



Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 535, pi. 45. f. 3 ; Mill. Icones. pi. 59. ff. 6, 7 ; 



Hnipen. Motlis Ind. ii. p. 324; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224. 

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

 Xanthodes fiinbriaia, Wlk. xxxiii. 777 (1865). 



Head and base of tegulae white, the rest of thorax yellow ; palpi 

 at tips, frons, and antennae except at base red-brown ; pectus 

 white ; fore and mid tibiae 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 



Fig. 272. — Acontia graellsi, (^ . 



suffused with brownish ochreous from apex to vein 2 ; the undei-- 

 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. S. Fkancl:; Sp-iiif, Catalonia, Zeller Coll., Castile, Frey and 

 Leech Colls., Andalusia, Leech Coll. ; Sieeka Leone (Foxcroft, 

 Morgan), 1 J' , 1 2 tyTpeJi mbriata ; Gold Coast, Kumasi ( Whiteside), 

 1 c? ; iS^. Nigeria, Miuna (Macfie), 1 $ , Borgu, Yehva Lake {Migeocl), 

 1 J; Abyssinia, Atbara ((7o-rrtrcZ), 1 ^ ; Be. E. Afeica, Nairobi 

 (Oratuslun/), 1 c? ; Br. C. Aeeica, Nyasa (Johnston), 1 S : Mashona- 

 xand, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 c? , 1 § ; Natal, Howieh (Cregoe), 

 1 $, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 c? , 1 2 ? Durban (Gooch), 1 c? ; 

 Oeange B. Colony, Bloemfonlein (Eclcersley), 1 S ; MAtrRiTius : 

 Aden (Yerhunj), 1 ,^,2 2; C. China, Ichang (Mrs. Pratt), 1 $; 

 Punjab (Mrs. Hamilton, Hearsey), 2 c5' , 1 2 type innocens, 

 Campbellpur ( F^y-iwry), 1 2> Manpuri, 1 2; Sind, 1 (^ \ Bombay, 

 Kutch, 1 c?; Burma, Myingyan (Watson), 1 S- Exjp. 34-42 

 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eutt. & Moths Eur. p. 263 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 140. 



Long and cylindrical; pale yellowish green dotted with black, 

 reddish on dorsum. Food-plant : Lavatera olbia. 



