ACRONYCTA. 



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with black streaks beyond them intersecting the cilia. Hind wing 

 white, the costa and inner margin slightly tinged with brown, the 

 veins brown ; a terminal series of small black lunules with black 

 spots beyond them on the cilia ; the underside with the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a blackish bar from middle of costa, 

 a small discoidal spot and postmedial line with minute black streaks 

 on the veins, bent inwards at vein 4, then oblique to near tornus. 



Hob. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 5 ; Guatemala (Rodriguez), 

 1 d , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 44 milliin. 



3636. Acronycta mansueta. (Plate CXXIV. tig. 10.) 



Acronycta manmeta, Smith, Ent. News Philad. viii. p. 151 (1897) ; 

 Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 100, pi. xii. f. 7 ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 102. 



5 . Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with dark brown ; 

 palpi white at base and with black band on 2nd joint ; frons with 

 dark brown bar above and white bars between antennae; shoulders 

 and outer edge of patagia with black-brown streak ; tibiae with 

 black streaks, the tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen greyish 

 suffused with brown, the basal crest large and dark. Fore wing 

 violaceous grey irrorated and in parts suffused with brown especially 

 on inner and postmedial areas; subbasal line represented by an 

 oblique black striga from costa ; a slight black streak in submedian 

 fold from base to antemedial line giving off a streak above vein 1 

 extending to medial line, another streak below vein 1 from near 

 base to medial line ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved, angled 

 outwards below costa and inwards in submedian fold ; orbicular 

 and reniform whitish slightly defined by brown, the former round, 

 the latter rather narrow and with brownish centre, some brown 

 suffusion from costa extending between their upper parts; post- 

 medial line double filled in with white, the inner line indistinct, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, slightly angled 

 outwards at veins 4, 3, 1 , incurved below vein 3, a diffused oblique 

 black streak from it at submedian fold to termen at vein 3, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; a diffused white subterminal 

 line excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at 

 discal and submedian folds, defined by brownish on outer side and 

 with slight dark streaks in the interspaces from it to the terminal 

 points ; cilia white with slight dark line near base and intersected 

 by slight streaks. Hind wing pure white with slight dark terminal 

 line ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal point. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 5 , 

 Garfield Co., California, Los Angeles, Nevada Co., Sierra Xevada. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



