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the tip, and distinctly curved and twisted. There is a superior pointed 

 process from the middle of the upper margin, which is of moderate 

 length. 



ACRONYCTA FUNERALIS Grote and Robinson. 

 (Pliites III, iig. 7, adult ; XVIII, fig. 27, log ; XXI, l\g. 5. male genitalia.) 



Avronycta fiinevnlis CjiiiOTV.iun\ KoiuNsoN, I'roc. Ent. Soc. I'hila., 18(50, VI, p. 17, pi. 



Ill, fig. 8. — GitoTic and lloiuxsoN, Trans. Am. Knt. Soc , 1870, III, p. 179. — 



Si-KYEH, Stett. Knt. Zeit., 1875, XXXVI, \). 200. 

 Apalela funoalia (\iuyvK, Check List Noct., 1875, pi. i, fig. 1; Mitth., a. d. Koeiu. 



Mu8., Ilildesh., No. B, 18;t(), p.^1. 

 Jochearea fiineralin Grote, Papilio, 1883, III, p. 111. 

 Acrouycta americanat Harris, Knt. Corresp., 1869, pi. iii, fig. B (larva only). — 



LiNTNER, Ent. Cont., 1874, III, p. 1.57, pr. syu. 



Ground color chalky white, more or less overlaid by gray scales, so 

 that in some cases the wing really seems evenly gray with a little bluish 

 shading. The head and thorax share in the differences in ground color, 

 and vary all the way from almost white, to nearly black in the darkest 

 specimen. In all cases a few dusky scales are intermixed which are 

 most prominent along the sides where there is a distinct line extending 

 from the jialpi to the base of the wings along the patagiae. The pri- 

 maries have the ordinary markings all traceable; but none of thera 

 well delined and the wing looks blotchy. The basal line is black, single 

 and marked on the costa only. The transverse anterior line is usually 

 single, iiiaiked by an obli(]ue black dash on the costa, and sonu^imes 

 traceable as ii geminate brown line to the longitudinal black dash. A 

 small portion of this line is visible in the shape of an upward spur 

 from tlie bhuik basal streak. Tlie median shade forms a black or 

 blackish blotch on the costa, darkening the ai)i)er portion of the space 

 between the ordinary sjmts. The transverse posterior line is scjuarely 

 bent outward over the cell, moderately incurved below, geminate on the 

 (•osta and below the median vein. The outer line is narrow, black, 

 irregulai', not lunulated, the included space of the palest ground color. 

 The inner ijortion of the line is dark shaded in the submedian inter- 

 space. Jieyond the transverse posterior line the wing is quite uniformly 

 bluish gray, through which an iiTegulai', pale, diffuse subterminal line 

 is traceal>le. There is a series of black marks at the base of the fringes, 

 beyond which the latter are cut with black. There is a broad black 

 streak at the base, extending through the transverse anterior line 

 nearly to the transverse posterior line and in some cases touching it, 

 and below this the wing is black or very dark smoky. From the outer 

 margin Just above the anal angle a broad black streak extends inward, 

 crossing the transverse posterior line and joining with the black shade 

 beyond it so as to connect with the blackish shading from the base. 

 The ordinary spots arc incompletely detined and sometimes scarcely 

 traceable. In dark specimens they are cpiite contrasting, because they 

 are always of the lightest ground color. The orbi(!ular is round or 

 nearly so, varying much in size. The reniform is kidney shaped, some- 



