68 KOCTUID^. 



3642. Acronycta parallels (Plate CXXIV. fig. 15.) 



Apate/a parallela, Grote, Can. Ent. si. p. 58 (1879) ; Smith & Djar, Pr. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 110, pi. iii. f. 9 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 38. 



c? . Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with dark brown, 

 the vertex of head and medial part of tegulae suffused with black ; 

 palpi white at base, the 2nd joint with black band ; shoulders and 

 outer edges of patagia with black-brown stripes ; tibia? with slight 

 black streaks, the tarsi banded dark brown and white ; abdomen 

 white dorsally irrorated with reddish brown. Fore wing violaceous 

 grey suffused with brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous : 

 subbasal line represented by double dark strke from costa and 

 single striga from cell : a black streak in submedian fold from base 

 to antemedial line giving off a spur below at middle ; antemedial 

 line double, the inner line strong from costa to submedian fold, 

 oblique, sinuous, angled outwards below costa and inwards in sub- 

 median fold ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former 

 round with slight dark centre, the latt(T large; a black striga from 

 middle of costa to orbicular; postmedial line double, filled in with 

 whitish, the inner line indistinct, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal fold, 

 incurved below vein 4, a rather diffused dark streak in submedian 

 fold from it to near termen and some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line whitish excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, then incurved : a terminal series of black points and fine 

 terminal line ; cilia intersected by slight streaks and with fine dark 

 line near base. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the underside with 

 the costal area slightly irrorated with pale brown and some slight 

 dark stria? on termen. 



Bab. U.S.A., Texas, Colorado, 2 tf type, Garfield Co., Denver. 

 Exp. 34 millirn. 



3643. Acronycta albarnfa. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 16.) 



Acronycta atharvfa, Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 239 (1874); 



Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 134, pi. iii. f. 10, & pi. xii. 



f. 9 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 38. 

 Acronycta walker i, Andrews, Can. Ent. ix. p. 98 (1877). 



J . Head and thorax violaceous grey suffused with brown ; 2nd 

 joint of palpi with black band ; frons with black bar ; fcegulae with 

 strong black line near base ; shoulders and outer edge of patagia 

 with black streak ; tibiae slightly streaked with black, the tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen whitish irrorated with fuscous and 

 dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing violaceous grey tinged 

 with brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line 

 represented by double black striae from costa ; a curved black 

 streak in submedian fold slightly defined by whitish above from 

 base to the antemedial line, which is double, black, angled outwards 

 below costa and inwards in submedian fold, then almost obsolete ; 



