ACRONYCTA. s -'! 



ITah. Canada (Norman), 1 $, Ottawa (Forin^), 1 rf ; U.S.A., 

 New York (Doubleday), I $ type, Evans Center (Grofe). 3 rf ,' 4 2 , 

 T>i-itr. of Columbia, Washington, and West to the Mississippi and 

 Central States. Exp. 50-52 millim. 



Lrtrm. Smi'li & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 121 ; Saunders, Ins. 

 Tnj. Fruits, p. lfifi, f. 174. 



Head pale, thickly dotted with brown, a red spot on vertex of 

 each lobe. Body green on the sides, an even narrow dorsal brown 

 stripe, widened on joint 1, narrowed on the incisures ; hairs sparse, 

 tine, almost single. Food-plants : Apple, Birch, &c. — H. G. D. 



3662. Acronycta subochrea. (Plate CXX1T. fig. 32.) 



Acronycta subocrea, Groto, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 153 (187-1) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 4.'. 

 Acronycta brmnosa, Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 117, pi. xiii. 



f. 1 (nee Guen.). 

 Ajiafe/a kamamelis, Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 102 (nee Guen.). 



Read and thorax grey-white largely mixed with fuscous black ; 



palpi white at base, the 2nd joint with black band ; lower part of 



irons whitish ; a white bar between antennae ; shoulders and outer 



edges of patagia with black stripes; tibiae with slight black streaks, 



the tarsi black ringed with white ; abrlomen white irrorated with 



dark brown and dorsally clothed with red-brown hair except 



towards extremity, the basal crest fuscous and white. Fore wing 



bluish white thickly irrorated with very dark brown and suffused 



with dark brown below the cell to antemedial line, in reniforra 



and below end of cell and beyond postmedial line ; some yellowish 



at base of inner margin; subbasal line represented by double dark 



striae from costa ; antemedial line rather indistinct, double, the 



lines rather widely separated towards costa, oblique, minutely 



waved, bent inwards to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 



large, defined by black, open above, the former round, the latter 



defined by black points on outer side ; a very oblique blackish 



stri^a from costa to reniform and minutely waved line from lower 



angle of cell to inner margin with short diffused blackish streak 



before it above vein 1 ; postmedial line blackish, double at costa, 



strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below 



vein 3 and angled outwards at vein 1 ; some white points with 



black streaks between them beyond it on costa ; an indistinct 



minutelv waved pale subterminal line ; a terminal series of small 



black spots ; cilia mostly black at base and white at tips. Hind 



wing whitish tinged with olive-brown, the terminal area suffused 



-with fuscous, in female darker ; cilia white with a dark line 



through them ; the underside white irrorated with dark brown, 



a dark streak in base of cell, black discoidal spot, crenulate 



postmedial line bent inwards to costa and with minute dark 



streaks on the veins, and terminal series of slight lunules. 



Hub. Canada, Ontario; U.S.A., South to Virginia and West to 



