Var. leporella Staud. = cineracea Graes. White, very 

 slightly dusted vnt\i grey atoms ; the markings 

 indistinct. Cf. South, I. PL loo, fig. 3. 

 2184 Germany, 1874 (Staudinger). "\ 

 525 Bred vi. 1872 (Earl). / 



Var. bradyporina Treit. 

 *5423 Britain, 1883 (Watkins and Donca^ter). 



[Half grown]. 

 *5688 Central Germany, 1883 (Staudinger). \ 

 *546o Germany, 1883 (Staudinger). j 



[The green colour partly gone]. 



Acronycta aceris Linn. 



2338 Bred 1875 (Peters). 



1748 Canterbury, bred 1874 (Parry). 



1749 ,, M ,, 



1750 Beverley, bred 1886 f. 

 2337 Bred 1875 (Peters). 



1 751 Bred from larva, 1888 f. 



Ab. intermedia Tutt. The wings with an ochreous 

 tinge ; nervures of hind wings strongly marked. 

 5537 South Germany, 1883 (Staudinger). \ 

 ; 5536 „ „ „ ./ 



Ab. candelisequa iis^. = infuscata Haw. Suffiised 

 uniformly with brown, the markings indistinct. Cf. 

 Barrett, Plate 120, fig. 2a. 

 *5939 Ely, viii. 1885 (Cross). 



The hairs reddish-orange. 

 ♦4978 Beverley, viii. 1885 f. 



The hairs light yellow, with four pairs of light red tufts. 

 *4947 Greenwich, 1881 (Tutt). 



The hairs dull reddish-brown. 



Acronycta megacephala Fab. 



2327 London, bred from larva, 1875 (Wittick). 



2328 



2334 



2331 



2330 



2325 



2332 



The general appearance darker ; the light patch nearly 

 obsolete. 

 5077 Russian Turkistan, 1882 (Staudinger). ~\ 

 1286 Andalusia, 1873 (Staudinger). / 



Var. turanica Staud. Formerly considered by Dr, 

 Staudinger to be a distinct species. Mr. Dobree 

 pointed out that it was ' nothing more than a light- 

 coloured form ' of this species, suffused with pale 

 brownish-grey. In Dr. Staudinger's 1901 ' Catalog ', 

 however, it appears as a variety of A. Fumicis. 

 *53i9 viii. 1883 f- 

 *3952 Sheffield, 1878 (Doncaster). 

 *4976 Germany, 188 1 (Kricheldorff). 



Acronycta strigosa Fah. 



3716 1876 (Jackson). 



6410 Bred 1886 (Harrison — probably from Warren). 



6411 



6412 „ „ „ „ 



