ACROXYCTA. <J1 



with black, the basal crest black and white. Fore wing white very 

 thickly irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by double 

 black stria) irom costa and cell ; antemcdial line double tilled in with 

 whitish, oblique, waved; orbicular and reniform detined by black 

 and with some black suffusion in centres, the former irregularly 

 rounded, the latter lunulate ; traces of a medial line, oblique from 

 costa to reniform and erect from submedian fold to inner margin, 

 with a blackish maik before it above vein 1 ; postmedial line double, 

 black, filled in with white lunules except towards costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, incuived below vein 4 and angled 

 outwards at vein 1, some whitish points beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, whitish, waved, slightly defined on outer 

 side by black ; a terminal series of black spots. Hind wing grey 

 suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; the underside white, the 

 costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with iuscous, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle), Cartwright (Heath), 

 1 $ ; U.S.A., Colorado, Denver, Glenwood Springs, Exp. 50 

 millim. 



Larva. Head shining black. Body black, dotted with pale, with 

 a reddish substigmatal band and narrow bioken dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines ; warts large, the hairs in dense tufts, long, fine ; dense 

 pale brown tufts subdorsally on joints 3 to 0, 12, and 13 ; four 

 dense black tufts on joint 5 ; two short black pencils on joint 12. 

 i'ood-plants : Prunus, Populus, lire. — H. (j. D. 



3673. Acronycta pruincsa. (Plate CXXV. fig. 10.) 



Acrom/cta pruhiosa, Guen. Koct. i. p. 53 ^1852); Hirpsn Moihs Ind. ii. 



p. 242. 

 Pulia suluta, Wlk. ssxiii. 723 (1865). 



Head and thorax white slightly tinged with brown in parts and 

 irrorated with black; palpi with the 2nd joint black at sides; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen white suffused with pale brown 

 except at base. Fore wing white thickly irrorated with brown and 

 with some brownish suffusion beyond the medial and postmedial 

 lines ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa and 

 curved black mark below cell with white spot on its inner side ; 

 antemedial line double, the lines widely separated on costal half 

 and with black points on them from costa to median nervure, 

 oblique, waved ; orbicular white defined by black and with brown 

 point in centre, round ; reniform defined by black, on outer side 

 reduced to points, its centre suffused with brown and with black 

 lunule on inner side ; a diffused dark patch on middle of costa and 

 oblique slightly waved line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line double tilled in by white lunulate marks, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa; a subterminal series of slight white 

 marks in the interspaces ; a terminal series of small black lunules 

 defined by whitish lunules and with blackish marks bevond them 



