80 NOCTXJID.E. 



3658. Acronycta inclara. (Plato CXXIV. fig. 28.) 



Acronycta hamamelis, Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 141, pi. ii. 



ff. 1, 2, 3, & pi. xii. f. 12 (nee Guen.). 

 Acronycta inclara, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 33.3 (1900). 

 Acronycta brumom, Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 103 (uec Guen.). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous and black, the 

 vertex of thorax paler ; palpi whitish at base and with black band 

 on 2nd joint ; irons with black bar ; teguke with diffused black 

 band near base defined by whitish at base ; tibiae streaked with 

 black; the tarsi banded with black; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 fuscous and dorsally suffused svith brown, the basal crest whitish. 

 Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous and suffused 

 in parts with brown, the basal area suffused with black to the outer 

 antemedial line leaving some yellowish on base of inner margin ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa ; ante- 

 medial line double, minutely waved, oblique, the inner line angled 

 inwards below the cell ; orbicular and renitorm defined by black, the 

 former whitish with brown centre, round, the latter with its centre 

 suffused with brown ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely waved, below vein 3 bent inwards to lower edge of 

 reniform, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 formed of dentate whitish marks slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of small triangular 

 black spots defined on inner side by whitish lunules ; cilia chequered 

 fuscous and whitish with dark line near base and terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing brown, with indistinct discoidal spot 

 and postmedial line incurved below vein 4 ; cilia chequered 

 ochreous white and brown ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, a short black streak in middle of cell of male, large dis- 

 coidal lunule, curved waved postmedial line, and terminal series of 

 small lunules. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Maine, Vermont, New York, Evans Center 

 (Grote), '2 S ,\ $ , Distr. of Columbia, Washington, Pennsylvania, 

 New Brighton ( Merrick), 1 3 , Minnesota, Dakota, Missouri, Texas 

 and West to the foot of liocky Mts. Exp. 38-40 millim. This is 

 probably a grey variety of A. hamamelis. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 143. 



Like A. ovata, with or without the white dorsal spots. — H. G. 1). 



3659. Acronycta clarescens. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 29.) 



Acronycta clarescens, Guen. Noct. i. p. 54 (1852) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. 



p. 101. 

 Acronycta pruni, Harris, Ent. Corresp. 1S(i9, p. 313; Smith & Dvar, 



Pr.U.S. Nat, Mus. xxi. p. 123, pi. iv. f. 4; Smith. Cat. Nuct- N. Am. 



p. 44. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown and 

 black ; 2nd joint of palpi with black band ; tegulae with blackish 



