ACROXrCTA. 101 



J3. Fore wing without brown shade beyond post- 

 medial line. 

 a 4 . Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate . euphorbia. 

 b*. Fore wing with the postmedial line minuuly 



wa veil abscondita. 



3679. Acronycta quadrata. (Plate CXXV. fig. 14.) 



Acronycta quadrata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 154 (1874) ; 

 temith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mas. x.\i. p. lUti, pi. lii. f. 1 ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 38. 



d . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale violaceous 

 brown ; 2nd joint of palpi with black band ; teguke with blackish 

 streaks at middle and on outer edge ; shoulders and outer edges of 

 patagia with black streaks ; mid and hind tibia; with faint dark 

 streaks ; abdomen white faintly tinged with brown towards ex- 

 tremity. Tore wing white irrorated with violaceous brown, the 

 costal area from medial to postmedial lines and the postmedial area 

 suffused with pale violaceous brown ; subbasal line represented by 

 double black striae from costa ; a strong black streak in submedian 

 fold from base to just beyond antemedial line, expanding at middle 

 and with some brownish suffusion below its base ; antemedial line 

 double, brown, waved from costa to submedian fold, then excurved ; 

 orbicular white denned by black except above, erect elliptical, with 

 quadrate black mark beyond it extending slightly into the reniform 

 which has a brownish centre and white annulus defined by black ; 

 a diffused medial brownish line oblique from costa to lower angle 

 of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line black defined by white on 

 iuner side, bent outwards below costa, erect to vein 4, then slightly 

 incurved and very minutely waved, a minute black streak before it 

 in submedian fold and strong fascia beyond it to near termen,some 

 whitish points on costa ; subterminal line rather diffused, whitish, 

 excurved below T costa and at middle and with minute black streak 

 beyond it in discal fold; a terminal series of slight dark striae ; 

 cilia white with dark brown line at base and brown tips ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a black 

 discoidal point and indistinct postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, then slightly waved. 



5 . Hind wing with indistinct curved postmedial line with broad 

 diffused dark band beyond it except towards tornus ; the underside 

 with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous. 



Bab. Caxada, Manitoba, Aweme (Griddle), 1 $ , Alberta, Calgary 

 ( Wolhy-Dod), o $ , 1 $ , Br. Columbia ; U.S.A., Nebraska, Kansas, 

 2 $ type, California. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



3680. Acronycta strigulata. (Plate CXXY. fig. 15.) 



Acronycta strigulata. Smith, Ent. News Pbilacl. viii. p. 150 (1897); 

 Smith & Dvar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xsi. p. 92, pi. xii. f. (> ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 101. 



J . Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous and black ; 2nd 



