520 NUCTUIDiE. 



black, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing nearly uniformly 

 suffused with cupreous brown ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 and suffused with fuscous brown, a dark discoidal spot and in- 

 distinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Punjab, Dharmsala (Hocking), 1 2 t}"P e 5 Madras, 

 Belgaum (Watson), 1 d . Exp. 20-22 millim. 



Vol. VIII. 

 Page 65. 



♦3638 a. Acronycta phasdra. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 32.) 



Acronycta phcedra, Piing. ined. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white mixed with black ; 

 palpi black at sides except extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints; Irons 

 with black marks at sides : patagia with black streaks on outer edge ; 

 tibiae and tarsi banded with black. Pore wing grey-white thickly 

 irrorated with black, the base of inner margin creamy white ; a 

 black streak below base of cell dilated into a wedge-shaped patch 

 before antemedial line; subbasal line represented by a black striga 

 from costa ; antemedial line double, minutely waved, oblique, bent 

 inwards to inner margin above which there is an oblique black 

 streak before it, a black streak beyond it above vein 1 ; orbicular 

 and reniform creamy white denned by black and with some black 

 scales in centres, the former round ; an oblique black bar from 

 costa to reniform ; postmedial line double at costa, then black 

 prominently defined by white on inner side, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and bidentate 

 in submedian interspace, a black streak from it to termen in sub- 

 median fold with some black above and below it, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa; a slight waved whitish subterminal line from 

 costa to discal fold ; a terminal series of black striae defined on 

 inner side by white ; cilia white intersected wdth black and w T ith 

 black line near base. Hind wing white slightly tinged with fuscous, 

 especially on terminal area ; the termen and tips of cilia with 

 blackish points except towards tornus ; the underside white, the 

 costal area irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and in- 

 distinct postmedial line waved to vein 4, then oblique. 



Hab. E. Siberia, Ussuri, Kasakewicsch (Korb), type f 5 i° foil. 

 Piingeler. Exp. 38 millim. 



Page 93. 3676. Acronycta rumicis insert 



Ab. suliriana, Gilmer, Ent. Pec. xix. p. 91 (1907). 



Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas blackish, the 

 medial area pale. 



