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*3675. Acronycta albistigma. (Plate CXXV. fig. 12.) 

 Acronycta albistigma, South, ined. 



d" . Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; palpi with the 

 1st and 2nd joints black ahoye: antennae with the basal joint black 

 at extremity behind ; tegulae with faint dark band before the tips 

 which are whitish : tarsi brown ringed with white : abdomen 

 ochreous whirish tinged with brown. Fore wing- grey-white thickly 

 i rrora ted with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 stria 1 from costa and cell, the latter tilled in with white ; antemedial 

 line rather indistinct, double, oblique, waved, angled inwards on 

 vein 1 ; orbicular pure white defined at sides by black and with 

 some brown scales in centre, rather oblique elliptical ; reniform 

 defined at sides by black and white points ; medial line represented 

 by a diffused oblique fuscous bar from costa and an indistinct 

 oblique dentate line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line double, the inner line indistinct, filled in by white 

 lunules between veins 7 and 4 and 3 and 1, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate, bent inwards below vein 4 and ending on inner 

 margin near tornus, some dark suffusion beyond it between veins 8 

 and 4 and below vein 2, and some white points on costa ; a waved 

 white subterminal line : a series of small black spots on termen 

 and base of cilia defined by whitish lunules on inner side. Hind 

 wing white, the basal area tinged with brownish yellow, the veins 

 and terminal area suffused with brown ; an indistinct curved post- 

 medial line ; cilia ochreous white with a series of fuscous spots; the 

 underside white with slight dark spot in middle of cell, blackish 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial line maculate and excurved to 

 vein 5, then oblique. 



Hah. Japan, type to in Coll. Wileman. Exp. 50 millim. 



3676. Acronycta rumicis. 



Noctua rumicis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 516 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 117. ff. 7-9; Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett., Noet. f. 9; Frr. Neue Beitr. 



pi. 513; Stepli. 111. Bi it. Ent.., Hauet. iii. p. 42; Dup. Lep. Fr yi 



p. 241, pi. 88. f. 2 ; Sra.ul. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 133. 

 Acronycta salieis, Curt. Brit. Ent. v. pi. 136 (1829). 

 Acronycta diffusa, Wlk. xi. 708 (1857). 

 Acronycta indica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 47 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind ii 



p. 203, k iv. ]>. 509. 

 Acronycta titranica, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 65; id. Rom Mem 



v. pi. 8. f. 5. 

 Acronycta alnoides, Geest, Allg. Zeit. Ent. viii. p. 310 (1903). 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown and black ; 2nd joint 

 of palpi with black band; irons with black bar ; tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with ochreous and 

 brown, the basal crest mixed with black. Fore wing white very 

 thickly irrorated with brown, the inner and postmedial areas 

 suffused with brown ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 strife from costa and single striga from cell with black streak from 



