NO. 1140. NORTH AMERICAN NOCTVIDAE— SMITH AND DYAR. 115 



Stage VII. — Head purplish brown, except the green clyjieus and a 

 narrow green area outside it, sliglitly mottled Avith paler; width, 2.8 

 mm. Body soft yellowish green, a i)urple-br()\vn dorsal band, furcate 

 on joint 2, touching the warts 1 on joints 5 to 7, broken in the incisures, 

 widening into an elliptical patch on joints 8 to 11, narrowing on 12, and 

 continued still more narrowly to the anal plate; on joints 9 to 11 a green 

 patch is inclosed, narrow on the posterior half of !>, where it begins, wide 

 on 10 to cover wart I, and occupying more narrowly the entire length 

 of joint 11. Brown spottings on the sides, especially around the spiracle 

 and wart VI. Warts small, I on joints 5 to 8 and I and 11 on 12 

 slightly jnoduced. Hairs short, sparse, black from I to III, the rest 

 white, two to ten hairs on a wart. Secondaiy hairs nearly absent; only 

 one or two can be distinguished on n segment subventrally. Spira- 

 cles white, with narrow black border. There is a form wliich is "pale 

 brownish with a flesh tint, but agreeing in all its markings with the 

 green form" (Edwards and Elliot), 

 • Food plants. — Apple, birch, willow, elm, arrowwood. 



ACRONYCTA CONNECTA Grote. 



(Plates II, fig. 1(), adult; XVIll, (ig. 7, palpus; XXI, iig. I, male genitalia.) 



Acronycta connecta Gkotk, IJull. Bnflf. Soc. Nat. Sci., 1873, I, p. 79. 



Ground color a dirty yellowish gray, more or less shot with reddish 

 through the center of the wings. The head Avith a black line across 

 the front. Thorax Avith a blackish line at the base of the collar; i)ata- 

 giae black marked at the sides. Primaries Avith all the markings more 

 or less traceable, but all of them obscured by a blackish shade wliicli 

 extends from the base through the center of the Aving and reaches the 

 outer margin above the anal angle. This shade is not avcII defined, 

 and includes the ordinary basal black streak and the black dash 

 through the transverse posterior line to the outer margin above the 

 anal angle. The basal line is geminate, broAvn, marked on the costa 

 only. The transverse anterior line is geminate, brown, outwardly 

 oblique, a little incurved between the veins, and more or less obscure 

 through the central portion of its cour.se; sometimes it is hardly trace- 

 able beyond the costa. The median shade is marked by an oblique 

 smoky streak on the costa, extending between the ordinary spots and 

 sometimes darkening the entire space from that point to the longitudinal 

 dark shade. Transverse posterior line blackish, slender, lunulate, 

 usually denticulate on the veins, very strongly incurved in the sub- 

 median interspace. There is a more or less evident pale subterminal 

 line, beyond Avhich the terminal space is usually a little black shaded, 

 most prominently so just opposite the cell and again in the submedian 

 interspace. There is a series of black terminal dots, beyond Avhich the 

 fringes are cut with smoky. The ordinary spots are more or less obscure; 

 the orbicular, when traceable, is round or nearly so, more or less marked 



