ANCHOCELIS.— XESTIA. 
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ANCHOCELIS, Guen. 
Anchocelis tenuis. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 12.) 
Colouring of A. carneago : primaries coffee-coloured^ washed with sericeous pinky 
lilacine excepting between the discoidal spots, where there is a darker dull patch of coffee- 
colour ; the discoidal spots themselves quite normal in form, of tlie same colour as the ground- 
tint ; lines of the central belt ill-defined ; submarginal line macular, well marked from the 
costa to the third median branch ; fringe dull coffee-coloui'ed : secondaries pink with a pale 
golden gloss ; fringe foxy red, with pale basal line : thorax dull chocolate-coloured ; antennse 
with whitish shank ; abdomen pale brown, with foxy-red lateral and terminal tufts. Wings 
below with foxy-red borders ; remainder of primaries grey with cupreous gloss, of secondaries 
whitish with golden gloss ; indications of two discal lines ; secondaries with a dusky disco- 
cellular dot : body below foxy red. Expanse of wings 38 millim. 
Laka; taken at light in June. 
XESTIA, Hubn. 
Xestia melonina. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 7.) 
Primaries above bright ochreous, crossed by seven slender dark rufous-brown lines ; the 
first four in pairs across the basal thii'd, the fifth more strongly defined, almost central, tri- 
sinuated, with the middle sinuation deepest, the sixth and seventh subangulated, almost 
parallel, crossing the disc, bounded externally by pale lunulated stripes ; discoidal spots pale ; 
a brownish-ferruginous spot between them bounded by the central line ; an ill-defined 
ferruginous band bounded externally by each of the discal lines and a less-defined squamose 
submarginal streak ; a dark brown undulated marginal line ; fringe tipped with ferruginous : 
secondaries paler and more sericeous than the primaries, the costa silvery ; an abbreviated 
purplish-brown central line from median vein to abdominal margin ; a streak above the latter 
and a second submarginal streak ; fringe darker ochreous : thorax deep ochreous, with the 
shoulders and a stripe across the back of the tegulse purplish brown ; abdomen paler, sprinkled 
with brown scales ; anal tuft bi'ight ochreous. Under surface uniform pale shining ochreous ; 
wings crossed by three more or less interrupted irregular brown lines ; pectus deep ochreous 
in front. Expanse of wings 43-48 millim. 
Dharmsala ; taken at sugar. 
More nearly allied to X. ochreago than to any other species ; but in colouring much 
more like Xanthia citrago. 
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