ACRONYCTA . 



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8677. Acronycta lutea. 



Acronycta ?«^«,Brem. & Grev, Motsch. Et. Ent. i. p. 65 (1852) ; Brem.Lep. 



(M-Sib. pi. 4. f. 7 ; Obertli. Et. Ent. x. p. 18, pi. 2. t. 14; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 133. 

 Pharetra leucoptera, But!. Trans Ent. Soc. 1881. p. 5'.»5. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with black-hrown ; palpi 

 with blackish band on 2nd joint ; patagia edged with blackish ; 

 tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen greyish suffused with 

 brown and with yellow towards base, the ventral surface whitish. 

 Fore wing whitish almost wholly suffused and irrorated with black- 

 brown, the inner and postmedial areas slightly darker; subbasal 

 line represented by double black striae from costa and single striga 

 from cell with slight black streak from it to autemedial line, which 

 is double, the lines widely separated, oblique, waved, angled out- 

 wards below costa ; orbicular and renitorm defined by black, the 

 former small, round, with slight whitish annulus ; a dark striga 

 from middle of costa and faint dark patch above middle of vein 1 ; 

 postmedial line double with white lunule on it below submedian 

 fold, the inner line indistinct, 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 spots in the interspaces with blackish spots on tlieir outer 

 side conjoined by slight streaks to the terminal series of points. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow, the basal area slightly tinged with 

 brown ; the terminal area broadly black-brown with irregular inner 

 edge angled inwards at vein 2 and pale yellow patch on termcn in 

 submedian interspace ; cilia whitish ; the underside yellowish 

 white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal 

 lunule and diffused subterminal band forming large blackish patches 

 between vein 3 and submedian fold and vein 1. 



Ab. 1. leucoptera. Hind wing whitish slightly tinged with 

 yellow. 



Ab. 2. Hind wing deep orange-yellow. 



Hab. E. Siberia, Dahnria, Amurland, Tssuri ; Japan, Oiwake 

 (Pri/er), 4 £ , Yokohama (Pryer), 2 d type leucoptera ; Corea, Gensan 

 (Leech), 1 6; W.China, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 rf. Exp. 4G-48 

 millim. 



3678. Acronycta catocaloida. (Plate CXXV. fig. 13.) 



Acronycta catocaloida, Gras. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 313 ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 133. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with black; palpi white with 

 blaik band on 2nd joint; patagia edged with blackish; tarsi 

 banded black and white : abdomen greyish thickly irrorated with 

 dark brown and dorsally suffused with reddish brown towards 

 base. Fore wing whitish almost wholly suffused with dark brown 

 and irrorated with black ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line rather indistinct, 

 double, waved, oblique ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, 



