About Grammodes stolida Fabricius, 1775
Technical description and variation: For the forewing: the basal two-thirds are black brown, with the basal patch, costal streak, and reniform stigma being fuscous grey. It is crossed at the middle by a pale ochreous band that runs obliquely starting from the subcostal, widens downwards, and has its outer half yellowish. It is externally limited by a biconcave ochreous band that is narrower below. This is followed below vein 6 by a broad brown band; on the outer edge of this broad brown band are three or four irregular black patches, and above and beyond it on the costa lies a black blotch that is sharply angled externally on vein 6. These black marks form the inner edge of a diffuse submarginal pale line. The terminal area is shaded with brown and fuscous, with a short black apical streak and a diffuse dark cloud below the middle. The fringe is grey with a white base, and is entirely whitish around the apex. For the hindwing: it is olive fuscous, turning blackish towards the termen. It has a white band running from the costa at one-third to the anal angle, and a round white submarginal spot in the submedian fold. The fringe is brightly white, but grey between veins 2 and 4. The form stupida H.-Sch. (possibly a separate species) from Salonica, Macedonia has bands marked yellow only at the inner margin, and only indicated by two straight dark streaks; the outer band is more strongly bent inwards towards the costa; the white band of the hindwing is not straight but forms two curves. In the aberration attenuata ab. nov. [Warren], the white band is only a narrow line from the cell to the inner margin.
