66 NOCTTTIDJE. 



band ; fro ns with lateral black points ; antennae fuscous, white at 

 base, the basal joint black behind ; tegulae fuscous at tips ; pro- 

 thorax with pair of black spots; shoulders and outer edge of 

 patagia with black stripe ; metathorax edged with black behind ; 

 tibiae slightly streaked Avith black, the tarsi banded black and 

 white ; abdomen white irrorated with blackish and dorsally tinged 

 with brown except at extremity. Fore wing white slightly irro- 

 rated with oiive-grey and with some olive-grey suffusion above base 

 of inner margin, between orbicular and reniform and on postmedial 

 area ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa ; 

 a sinuous black streak in submedian fold from base to antemedial 

 line, giving; off slight spurs below at middle and above at ante- 

 medial line, which is double, oblique, waved ; orbicular defined by 

 black, small, round, incomplete above; reniform defined by black, 

 indistinctly on outer side, and with some olive in centre ; medial 

 line olive, blackish at costa, oblique to median nervure, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 1 ; postmedial line black, double at costa, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, a black streak from it to termen in 

 submedian fold, some white points with short black streaks between 

 them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line defined by the contrast 

 between the postmedial and terminal areas, dentate, angled out- 

 wards at veins 7, 6, and inwards in discal fold, a short black 

 streak beyond it in discal fold ; a terminal series of small triangular 

 black spots with blackish streaks from them intersecting the cilia. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused w T ith brown ; a terminal series of dark 

 strias ; cilia white with a brownisli line through them towards 

 apex ; the underside white faintly tinged with brown in parts and 

 the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal 

 spot and diffused postmedial line irregularly waved from costa to 

 vein 5, then oblique, some slight black lunules on termen. 



Hah. Canada; U.S.A., New i r ork (Grote), 1 $, Albany, Evans 

 Center, Long I., New Jersey, 1 £ , Mississippi, Missouri, Texas. 

 Earp. 32-36 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mns. xxi. p. 94. 



Head green with a brown spot at the vertex of each lobe. Body 

 robust, green with a pale lateral line : tubercle i. of joint 5 elevated, 

 brown. Food-plant : Elm. — H. G. D. 



3640. Acronycta paupercula. (Plate CXNIV. fig. 13.) 



Acron'/cla paupercula. Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 107 ; Smith 

 & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 'J7, pi. xii. f. 2; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 38. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with pale brownish ; palpi 

 with black band on 2nd joint; antenme brown, the basal joint 

 black behind ; shoulders and outer edges of patagia with black 

 streaks; tibiae streaked with black, the tarsi blackish ringed w it li 

 white ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing 



