. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. IJOO ;. 7119. Acontia graellsi. Acoiifia r/rac/hii, Feisth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. tI. p. 800, pi. 12. f. 3(1837); Dup. Lcp. Fr., Siippl. iii. p. 535, pi. 45. f. 3 ; Mill. Icones. pi. 59. , 7 ; Hnipsn. Motlis Ind. ii. p. 324; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224. Xanfhochs innoccns, Wlk. xv. 1752 (1858). Xanthodes Jimhriaia, Wlk. xxxiii. 777 (1805). Head and base of tegulac white, the rest of thorax yellow ; palpi at tips, frons, and antennas except at base red-brown; pectus white ; fore and mid tibise red-brown ;
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. IJOO ;. 7119. Acontia graellsi. Acoiifia r/rac/hii, Feisth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. tI. p. 800, pi. 12. f. 3(1837); Dup. Lcp. Fr., Siippl. iii. p. 535, pi. 45. f. 3 ; Mill. Icones. pi. 59. , 7 ; Hnipsn. Motlis Ind. ii. p. 324; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224. Xanfhochs innoccns, Wlk. xv. 1752 (1858). Xanthodes Jimhriaia, Wlk. xxxiii. 777 (1805). Head and base of tegulac white, the rest of thorax yellow ; palpi at tips, frons, and antennas except at base red-brown; pectus white ; fore and mid tibise red-brown ; abdomen white with slight rufous dorsal segmental lines. Fore wing j-ellow 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 throu2;h them. Hind wing semihyaline white, the terminal area and cilia more or less. Fig. 272,—Aconfia (/raellsi, (^ . 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. Hah. S. Fr.\nce ; Spain, Catalonia, Zeller Coll., Castile, Frey and Leech Colls., Andalusia, Leech Coll.; Sieeea Leone (Foxcroff, Morgan), 1 c? , 1 2 typejimhriafa ; Gold Coast, Kumasi ( Uldtcsidc), 1 c? ; , Minna {Macfie), 1 5 i Borgu, Yehva Lake {Migeod), 1 cT ; Abvssinia, Atbara ((r^'rranO, 1 6; 3^^. E. Africa, Nairobi (Craivshaj/), 1 (5; Br. C. Africa, Nyasa {Johnston)., 1 J : Masuona- land, Salisbury {Marshall), \ S, 1 ^ ; Natal, Howich (C/y^oc), 1 $, Estcourt (/Jatc/nnson), 1 c?, 1 5, Durban {Gooch), 1 c?; Orange 11. Colony, Eloemfontein (Ecl-erslei/), 1 c
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