ACKONVCTA. ^'J 



median fold in which there is a short black streak before it ; 

 antemedial line double, with short black streaks on each line on the 

 veins, the inner line angled inwards below the cell and the outer 

 with small black spot on it : orbicular and renif'orm defined by 

 fuscous and with slight dark centres, the former round ; postmedial 

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

 curved below vein 3, with brown suffusion beyond it to near termen 

 between veins G and 4 and from vein 3 to suhmedian fold, and 

 some white points on costa with dark maiks between them ; sub- 

 terminal line absent: a terminal series of small round black spots; 

 cilia with a slight black line near tips. Hind wing greyish suffused 

 with brown and with terminal seiies of slight black striae; cilia 

 -white with a slight brown line through them ; the underside white 

 tinged in parts with hi own, a large black discoidal lunule and 

 rather diffused, curved, waved brown postmedial line. 



Bab. Canada ; U.S.A., Massachusetts (Packard), 1 J , New 

 York, Schenectady (Lintxcr), 1 J , Evans Center (Grote), 1 rf , 1 $ , 

 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1 $ type, Virginia. Exp. 30-34 

 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 146. 



Head red-brown. Body whitish, each segment with five purple- 

 brown transverse bands dorsally, the sides and feet pale. Food- 

 plant : Maple.— H. G. D. 



3670. Acrorycta csesarea. (Plate CXXV. fig. 7.) 

 Acronycta casarea, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 191 (l'J05). 



$ . Head and thorax white mixed w it h black-brown with an 

 olive tinge ; frons with black bar ; patagia with dark edges ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown with pale 

 segmental lines, the ventral suriace whitish irrorated with brown. 

 Pore wing whitish thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous 

 brown with an olive tinge, the medial area slightly paler ; subbasal 

 line blackish, double, waved, from costa to suhmedian fold in which 

 there is a slight black streak irom it to outer edge of antemedial 

 line, w 7 hich is double, oblique, waved, angled inwards in suhmedian 

 fold; orbicular and reniforra small, white irrorated with brown and 

 defined by blackish, the former round ; medial line represented by 

 an oblique bar from costa and oblique sinuous line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 whitish, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4, some alternating white and dark points beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line absent; a terminal seiies of black points 

 defined on inner side by slight whitish lunules ; cilia chequered 

 fuscous brown and white and with dark line through them. Hind 

 wing greyish uniformly suffused with brown ; cilia white with a 

 dark line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal area and 

 terminal area to vein 3 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, 



