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3664. Acronycta carbonaria. (Plate CXXV. tig. 2.) 



Acronycta carbonaria, Grass. Berl. eat. Zeit. 1889, p. 252 ; Staud. Cat. 



Le|>. pal p. 133. 

 Acronycta brumosa, Leech. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 47<> (nee Guen.). 



cJ. Head and thorax whitish tinged with brown and irrorated 

 with black ; palpi brown, whitish at base ; Irons with blackish 

 bar; tegula? and patagia edged with blackish ; tarsi banded with 

 black; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown except at bi.se. 

 Fore wing grey almost wholly suffused with dark brown and 

 irrorated with black, the area just before autemedial line paler : 

 subbasal line double, waved, from costa to sub median fold ; 

 autemedial line double, waved, oblique, the lines widely separated, 

 with black streak in submedian fold from its inner edge to well 

 beyond it; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the 

 former with white annulus on inner side and black point in upper 

 part of centre, the latter with slight black lunule on inner side 

 of centre ; a very oblique dark striga from costa to reniform 

 and indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double, the lines ralh"r widely separated 

 and with some white between them, bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate and produced to short black streaks on the veins, 

 incurved below vein 3, some white points beyond it on costa; a 

 strongly waved whitish subterminal line slightly defined by 

 blackish on outer side, a terminal series of black points with 

 blackish marks beyond them on the cilia. Hind wing white, the 

 veins of terminal half brownish ; a brownish postmedial bar from 

 costa and slight lunulate terminal line ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged and irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal 

 lunule, indistinct waved postmedial line from costa to vein 4 with 

 dark spots on and below costa, small spot on costa near apex, and 

 terminal series of small lunules from apex to vein 2. 



2 . Hind wing with indistinct curved postmedial line, the 

 terminal area suffused with brown and the inner area tinged with 

 brown. 



Hub. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Yokohama (Pri/cr), 4 J , 2 £ ; 

 Corea. Exp. 46-48 millim. 



36(55. Acronycta subornata. 



Acronycta subornata, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 477, pi. i. f. 6. 

 Acronycta brunnea, South, ined. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown and black ; 

 palpi with black patch on 2nd joint ; patagia edged with blackish ; 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen reddish brown, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore win"; grey-white almost wholly 

 suffused with dark red-brown and irrorated with black, the srea 

 just before antemedial Hue and the costal area beyond autemedial 

 line rather whiter; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to 



