. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. G5S NOCTUID-Ti:. Sect. II. l''orc win^ of mule with tlie terineii evenly curved. A. I'lilpi of male elotlied with downturned hair in front. 7116. Acontia malvae. I^'odua malvo', Esp. Schmett. iv. 2. p. 63, pi. 19.'). f. 4 (179G); Hiibn. Eur. Schraett., Noct. f. 358 ; Dup. Lep. ¥r. Suppl. iii. p. ."iSS, pi. 45. f. 2 ; Frr. jVeue Eeitr. pi. 149. f. 4; Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 221 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 84. ff. 3-7; Moths Ind. ii. p. 322; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224. Xanfhodes stramen, Guen
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. G5S NOCTUID-Ti:. Sect. II. l''orc win^ of mule with tlie terineii evenly curved. A. I'lilpi of male elotlied with downturned hair in front. 7116. Acontia malvae. I^'odua malvo', Esp. Schmett. iv. 2. p. 63, pi. 19.'). f. 4 (179G); Hiibn. Eur. Schraett., Noct. f. 358 ; Dup. Lep. ¥r. Suppl. iii. p. ."iSS, pi. 45. f. 2 ; Frr. jVeue Eeitr. pi. 149. f. 4; Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 221 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 84. ff. 3-7; Moths Ind. ii. p. 322; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224. Xanfhodes stramen, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 210(1852). Xanthia imparafa, Wlk. x. 4(57 (185(>). Xanthodes impeUe^is, Wlk. xv. 1752 (1858). Xanthodes inefficiens, Wlk. xv. 1752 (1858). (S. Head white; thorax pale yellow; palpi, frons, antennoe, fore and mid tibiie and tarsi tinged with brown; abdomen white dorsally tinged with ochreous except at base and with rufous dorsal segmental lines. Fore wing j'ellow irrorated with a few blank 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 malvfp, (^. \. blackish points before termen at veins 4, 3; the termcn 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 ou which it extends from apex to tornus; hind wing with the termen more suff
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