402 NOVITATES ZUOLOGICAK XXI. I'.U 1. 



Hindwing with two dark grey outer liues as well as the terminal. 



Head, thorax, and dur.sum whitish, the last with dark saddle-shaped marks. 



Japan. 



Family NOCTUIDAE. 

 Subfamily ACRONYCTINAE. 



3. Acronicta nigralbata spec. nov. 



Fore/ri/ii/ : ochroons grey ; a purplish grey basal patch, edged with black 

 curved liues, and traversed liy the pale subbasal Hue, from costa to vein 1 ; a broad 

 white double inner line, oblique to be3'ond middle of inner margin ; its outer edge 

 angled outwards in cell and on vein 1, inwards on median ; its inner edge inangled 

 on vein 1 and above inner margin ; traversed at middle by a blackish Hue, the 

 inner half tinged with bbie-grey and speckled with dark, followed by a broad olive 

 fuscous band, darkest close to line ; outer line double, sharply bent outwards 

 beneath costa, then oblirjue inwards, sharply lunulate-dentate, and indented on 

 each fold, followed by a dark brown shade from costa to vein 4 and in submediau 

 interval, this last e.xtending bar-shaped to termen at aual angle ; a large diffuse 

 fulvons grey patch, ill-defined, represents the reniform stigma; terminal line 

 lunnlate-dentate, with slight dark scaling on the folds ; fringe chequered ochreous 

 and blackish. 



HiiidiciiKf : brownish with darker termen ; a slight dark outer line. 



Underside grey suffused with fuscous in forewing, with ill-marked lines ; in 

 hindwing luteons tinged with ochreous, with the liues dark and distinct. 



Head pale ochreons : thorax olive-grey mixed with black ; abdomen dark grey. 



Expanse of wings : 3:.' mm. 



3 ¥ ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam, October 1895. 



Allied to ulhonigra Herz and nigromaculata Warr., but the dark shades are 

 narrower. 



4. Acronicta cubitata spec. nov. 



Forewiiuj : pale grey snffnsed with dark grey ; a darker shade beyond outer 

 line ; the median line thick and dark, making the reniform stigma dark ; subbasal 

 Hue marked by double dark strigae on costa ; inner line double, slightly obliijue out- 

 wards, inangled on both folds, the lower angle met by a thick black streak from 

 base, and angled outwards below vein 1 ; median shade angled in the reniform 

 stigma, then inwardly oblique and inangled below vein l,all but touching the angle 

 of inner line; orbicular stigma round, pale grey with black outline and dark centre; 

 reniform blackish with black ontliue ; outer line bent sliarjily outwards below costa, 

 vertical from 8 to 4 with a slight indentation on vein 5, then incurved and roundly 

 bent at right angles below reniform, white outwardly thickly edged with black ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, marked by slight wedge-shaped dark blotches ; fringe 

 mottled, black and grey in basal half, black and white in outer. 



Ill 11(1 iriiKj : dirty wliitish, with luteons grey cell-si}ot, outer line, and terminal 

 band ; a black terminal line ; fringe whitish grey. 



Underside of forewing dark grey ; the costa, termen, and outer line whiter ; of 

 hindwing white, grey-speckled along costa, with dark cell-.spot, outer line, and 

 subterminal shade. 



