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orbicular and rcniform whitish defined by black, the former round) 

 the latter with rufous centre, the cell between them suffused with 

 black ; a medial black bar from costa and traces of a line from cell 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line black slightly defined by whitish 

 on inner side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 strongly incurved below vein 3 and angled outwards on vein 1, a 

 black streak from it to termen in submedian fold and some whitish 

 points on costa ; an indistinct whitish sub terminal line excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, and angled inwards in discal and sub- 

 median folds, with slight black streaks in the interspaces from it to 

 the terminal series of minute lunules which have black streaks 

 irom them intersecting the cilia through which there is a dark 

 line. Hind wing pure white, the termen slightly tinged with 

 brown at apex : a terminal series of slight brown lunules : cilia 

 with a diffused brown line through them ; the underside with the 

 costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and 

 traces of a curved postmedial line waved on costal area. 



$ . Hind wing wholly suffused with brown, a slight discoidal 

 spot and diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Uab. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle), 1 ? ; U.S.A., 

 Massachusetts, ]\ T ew York, Center (Lintner), 1 J , 4 £, Georgia, 

 Minnesota, St. Paul, Missouri, 1 $ type, Colorado, Denver, Mew 

 Mexico. Exp. 36-40 miilim. 



3644. Acronycta connecta. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 17.) 



Acronycta connecta, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 79 (1873); 

 Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 115, pi. ii. f. 1(5; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 43. 



Head and thorax white slightly tinged with brown ; 2nd joint 

 of palpi with black band ; frons with blackish bars above and 

 between antennae ; shoulders and outer edges of patagia with black 

 streaks ; tarsi black ringed with grey ; abdomen grey-white dorsally 

 tinged with brown. Pore wing grey-white slightly tinged with 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous, the area between the cell and 

 veins 3 and 1 suffused with fuscous, the costal area tinged with 

 fuscous on terminal half, the veins with slight dark streaks ; sub- 

 basal line represented by an oblique black striga from costa ; 

 a black streak in submedian fold from base to just beyond the 

 antemedial line which is double, the lines widely separated towards 

 costa, oblique, waved, angled inwards in submedian fold and on 

 vein 1 ; orbicular defined by black except above, somewhat produced 

 to a point at lower extremity, and with black suffusion between it 

 and reniform, which is defined by black on inner side, ill-defined on 

 outer and with some brown in centre ; an oblique black striga from 

 middle of costa ; postmedial line black defined by whitish on inner 

 side, double at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, strongly incurved below vein 3 and excurved 

 below submedian fold, a black streak in submedian fold from well 

 before it to termen and a slight streak in discal fold from it to 



