88 N0CTU1D.E. 



two colours separated by a dark green lateral line ; six dorsal green 

 patches; subdorsal line fine, green; head pale; anal segment 

 slightly humped ; warts each with one hair. Pood-plant : Huma- 

 melis virginiana. 



3668. Acronycta increta. (Plate CXXV. fig. 5.) 



Acronycta increta, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soo. N. H. xvii. p. 131 (1874); Smith 

 & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. iVlus. xxi. p. 144, pi. xii. f. 13 ; Smith. Cat. Swt. 

 N. Am. p. 44. 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown and fuscous; 2nd 

 joint of palpi with black band ; frons with blackish bar ; tibiae 

 slightly streaked with hlack, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 grey thickly irrorated with brown, the ventral surlace whitish. 

 Pore wing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous aud suffused iu parts 

 with browu, the basal area suffused with black to outer edge of 

 antemedial line leaving the base of inner margin whitish and the 

 area between subbasal and antemedial lines greyer to submedian 

 fold ; subbasal line double, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, minutely waved, oblique ; orbicular aud reniform 

 whitish defined by black and with red-brown centres, both erect 

 elliptical, a black bar from costa to orbicular ; postmedial line 

 double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved and with 

 short black streaks beyond it on the veins, incurved below veiu 3, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; a whitish subterminal 

 line angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small 

 triangular black spots defined by whitish lunules on inner side ; 

 cilia chequered white and brown and with dark line through 

 them. Hind wing greyish wholly suffused with reddish brown ; 

 cilia white with small brownish spots from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside whitish slightly tinged and irrorated with brown, a 

 blackish discoidal spot, traces of a postmedial line with dark spots 

 at discal and submedian folds, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Cartwright (Heath), 1 $ ; U.S.A., 

 New York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 tf , 1 $, Beverley, 1 § type, 

 New Jersey, Texas, New Mexico. Exp. 34 millim. 



3669. Acronycta retardata. (Plate CXXV. fig. 6.) 



Microcalia retardata, Wlk. Can. Nat. & Geol. vi. p. 38 (1861); Smith & 

 "Myar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 145, pi. ii. f. 5 & pi. xii. f. 14; Smith, 

 Cat, Noct. N. Am. p. 45. 



Acronycta dtssecta, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent, Soc. iii. p. 178, pi. ii. 

 f. 81 (187U). 



Head and thorax white mixed witn brown ; palpi with the 2nd 

 joint black above ; teguke with diffused black medial line ; shoulders 

 and outer edges of pitagia with black streaks ; fore tarsi banded 

 black and white; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown, 

 pore wing white slightly irrorated with fuscous, the basal area 

 thickly irrorated ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to sub- 



