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5. Acontia Caffraria. 



Alba; alee anticce fuscce nigro guttata, plaga mar ginali postica 

 plagaque costali guttam includente albis, triente basalt alba 

 fasciam glaucescen tern albo lineatam includente ; postica fusco 

 marginatce. 



Phaloena Caffraria, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 82, pi. 147, f. F. 



Noctua caloris, H'ubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 373. 



Tarache caloris, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 261, 2563. 



Acoutia caloris, Treit. Schmett. v. 241. Boisd.Ind.Meth.lG5, 



1320. Dup. Supjjl. iii. 531, pi. 45. Steph. III. Brit. Ent. 



Haust. iii. 114. Herr.-Schceff. Schmett. Eur, ii. pi. f. 226. 

 Acontia Caffraria, Guen. Noct. ii. 222, 998. 



South Europe. Cape. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



b. c. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



Several of the exotic species do not quite agree with the generic 

 characters of the European Acontiae. 



North America. 



6. Acontia candefacta. 



Mas. Albida ; alee albo ciliata ; anticte maculis tribus basalih 

 duabusque anticis post mediis, fascia una media duabusque 

 subapicalibus, fuscis ; postica cinerece, basi subtusque albce. 



Tarache candefacta, (Noctua semigeometra, Heliothis tristis), 



H'ubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. iii. 39, 294, f. 587, 588. 

 Phytometra minuta, Haw. Lep. Brit. 265. 

 Acontia candefacta, Guen. Noct. ii. 216, 984. 



Pennsylvania. 



a, b. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



c. North America ? From Mr. Stephens' collection. 



7. Acontia erastrioides. 



Alba ; ala antica? flavescente-alba, strigis tribus costalibus fusco- 

 cinereis, macula postica magna rhomboidali nigro-fusca plum- 

 beo varia, orbiculari e puncto nigro, ciliis albis cinereo vix 

 tinctis. 



Acontia erastrioides, Guen. Noct. ii. 218, 990. 



North America. 



