86 N0CTUID.3C. 



submcdian fold in which there is a slight black streak from its 

 inner edge to beyond antemedial line which is double, the lines, 

 rather widely separated, waved, oblique : orbicular and reniforru 

 large, defined by black, the former rather erect elliptical, open 

 above and with white annulus on inner side and below ; a very 

 oblique dark striga from costa to reniform and oblique waved line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with some white, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate, incurved below vein 3 and angled outwards on 

 vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa; a subterminal 

 series of whitish lunules in the interspaces, incurved below vein 3 ; 

 a terminal series of black points defined by slight whitish lunules. 

 Hind wing yellow-brown, the terminal area dark brown, a slight 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line oblique below vein 4 ; cilia 

 whitish at tips; the underside whitish tinged with brown, the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a blackish streak 

 in middle of cell, large discoidal spot, postmedial line waved from 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique, diffused subterminal band and 

 terminal series of slight lunules. 



Ab. 1. brunnea. Pore wing more uniform brown with less grey. 



Hub. Japan, Yokohama (Fryer), 4 § type ; Cokea, Gensan (Ito), 

 1 $ . Ed-j). 42-48 millim. Typef brunnea in Coll. Wileman. 



3666. Acronycta afflicta. (Plate CXXV. fig. 3.) 



Acronycta afflicta, Grole, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pbilacl. ii. p. 438, pi. ix. f. 4 

 (1864); Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Eat. Mus. xxi. p. 127, pi. i. f. 16; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. IS". Am. p. 42. 



Acronycta dolens, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 2(10, pi 26 f 7 

 (1889). 



Head and thorax black mixed with white and some pale reddish 

 brown ; 2nd joint of palpi with black band; irons with dark bar; 

 legula? with the basal half blackish, the terminal half pale with 

 black lines at middle and near tips : disks of patagia and thorax 

 whitish ; fore tibia? and tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown, the basal crest and ventral surface whitish. Fore 

 wing reddish brown mixed with some grey and mostly suffused 

 and irrorated with black, some whitish at base of inner margin ; 

 subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, oblique ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black, the former whitish with brown centre, 

 round ; an oblique dark bar from middle of costa and oblique 

 waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial 

 line double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; a 

 dentate whitish subterminal line ; a terminal series of rather 

 triangular spots defined by slight whitish lunules; cilia whitish 

 with a brown line near base and terminal series of brown lunules. 

 Hind wing white, the veins streaked with brown; the terminal 



