\2S THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



One almost perfect male from Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod. This is, to 

 my mind, one of the handsomest of our species of Acronycta. It re- 

 sembles a somewhat undersized very dark even grisea ; but it is actually 

 nearer \.o f alalia in structure and details of maculation. I have never 

 seen any tendency in either grisea or revellata to vary in this direction 

 and believe I have a good species. 



Nodua Trumani, n. sp. — Ground colour luteous brown, varying a 

 little from a rusty to a smoky tinting. The head and the tips of the palpi 

 may be paler, more yellowish. Thorax concolorous, collar and patagise 

 fairly marked, vestiture rather loose, hairy, with the scaly admixture slight. 

 Primaries without contrasts save that sometimes the reniform, and mere 

 rarely the orbicular, are obviously paler than the rest of the wing. All 

 the usual lines are present, slender, brown, very slightly relieved. Basal 

 line single, slender, evenly curved, lending to become lost in the darker 

 specimens. T. a. line single, slender, somewhat irregular, a little out- 

 curved in the interspaces, and as a whole a little outwardly oblique : it 

 tends to become lost in the darker examples. T. p. line single, slender, 

 blackish, crenulate, in course parallel to the outer margin, tending to 

 break up into a series of venular dots, which are obvious in all the speci- 

 mens before me. S. t. line pale, rather even, somewhat diffuse, preceded 

 by a slightly darker shading in the s. t. space, and sometimes further 

 relieved by a darker tint in the terminal space : the tendency is to obscure 

 the line, and in one example it is marked only by the dusky s. t. shade. A 

 dusky terminal line and a yellow line at the base of the dusky fringes. A 

 dusky, somewhat diffuse median shade is obvious in some specimens, 

 extending from the costa between the ordinary spots and from the lower 

 edge of the reniform nearly direct to the inner margin. This shade may 

 be entirely lost, but usually the darkening of the cell between the ordinary 

 spots remains, aud even more generally the dusky shade at the lower end 

 of the reniform. Claviform indicated in one specimen only by a line of 

 darker scales, and may be said to be wanting. Orbicular round or a 

 little oval, moderate in size, more or less completely outlined by dusky 

 scales, sometimes annulate with yellowish and scnuetimes entirely paler 

 than the ground colour of tlie primaries. Reniform of good size, kidney- 

 shaped, the sides defined by dark scales, uj^per and lower margins often 

 indefinite, middle of the spot more or less obviously yellow, sometimes 

 contrasting quite strongly, sometimes scarcely relieved from the 

 ground. Secondaries in the male pale yellowish, veins smoky, 



