19G GROTE & ROBINSON. 



the ordinary spots. The rounded external portion of the annulus of 

 the claviforra spot is black, as also portions of the annuli of the discal 

 spots. Occurs in the same localities as the typical form and is of 

 rather more frequent occurrence. So different does it appear at first 

 sight, that in the Collection of M. Gruenee, individuals of this form 

 were regarded as constituting a distinct species and belonging to a dif- 

 ferent genus by the distinguished French Entomologist. 



ACRONYCTA, Ochsen. 

 Acronycta morula, n. s. (Plate 3, fig. 75 9 )• 



% 9. — Size large. Pale grey shaded with ochreous olivaceous. Head 

 pale grey shaded with olivaceous on the vertex. Labial palpi whitish, 

 the second article largely banded outwardly with black. Under tho- 

 racic surface whitish. Legs grey, middle and hind tibiae longitudin- 

 ally and narrowly streaked with black outwardly. " Collar" pale grey 

 edged with olivaceous behind. Tegulae pale grey. Thoracic disc 

 stained with ferruginous. Lateral dark shaded lines before the inser- 

 tion of the primaries. 



Primaries pale grey, the marks and line accompanied by olivaceous 

 shadings. An elongate narrow black streak along the median nervure 

 extending to the outer line of the transverse anterior and heavily 

 shaded beneath with olivaceous. Transverse anterior geminate, the 

 lines wide apart on costa, olivaceous, the inner marked with black 

 scales at along its middle. Orbicular small, olivaceous. Pteniform 

 suffused with ochreous olivaceous, of the normal shape, the annulus 

 indistinct except behind on the disc where it is marked with black 

 scales. Transverse posterior line as in A. lobeliae, e^lcavate inter- 

 spaceally superiorly where it is widely projected over the nervules ; 

 below the third median nervule it is greatly retired inwardly and runs 

 thence more evenly inwardly to internal margin. It is succeeded by 

 diffuse olivaceous shading. Superiorly, along the interspace opposite 

 the disc, a narrow black streak runs from the t. p. line to the external 

 margin. Interiorly, along the submedian fold, a similar and longer 

 deep black streak runs from the faint olivaceous median shade across 

 the t. p. line to the external mai-gin above internal angle. Fringes 

 cut with olivaceous at the extremity of the nervures. 



Secondaries smoky griseous allowing the markings of the under sur- 

 face to appear. Fringes pale. Beneath pale grey, the primaries 

 shaded with smoky about the disc and with a faint transverse shade 

 strongly marked on costa. A series of anteapical costal black dots and 

 interspaceal dots along external margin. Secondaries clear grey. A 



