ACRONYCTA. L03 



line black defined on inner side by diffused white, double just above 

 and below vein 2, strongly bent outwards below costa, tbeu 

 dentate, strongly incurved below vein 4, crossed by black streaks 

 in discal and submedian folds, the latter strong, the former stronger 

 towards termen; the veins of terminal area with slight dark 

 streaks; siibtermiiial line represented by slight white stria; from 

 costa and above vein 2; cilia intersected by short black streaks 

 from before termen. Hind wing white tinged with reddish brown 

 especially on terminal area, the veins broWn ; cilia white; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with black, a 

 blackish discoidal spot, rather maculate postmedial line incurved 

 below vein 3, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hob. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 2 type, New Mexico, Las Vigas, Hot 

 Springs, Arizona, Tucson, Yavapai Co., Minnehaha, 1 2 . Exp. 

 40 millim. 



3682. Acronycta lsetifica. (Plate CXXV. fig. 17.) 



Acronycta Uetifica, Smith, Enti. News Philad. viii. p. 160 (1897); Smith 

 &Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 89, pi. iii. f. 12; Dyar, Cat. Lep. 

 N. Am. p. 101. 



Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; palpi with black 

 band on 2nd joint ; shoulders and outer edges of patagia with black 

 streaks ; prothorax with slight paired black spots ; tibiie with 

 interrupted black streaks, the tarsi with slight black bands; abdo- 

 men white irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing white irrorated 

 with pale brown : subbasal line represented by double dark striae 

 from costa and single striga from cell ; a strong sinuous black 

 streak in submedian fold from base to outer edge of antemedial 

 line, which is double, the lines widely separated towards costa, 

 oblique, sinuous ; orbicular defined by black except above, rather 

 oblique elliptical, with strong curved black streak from its lower 

 edge to lower extremity of reniform, which is large, defined by 

 black on inner side, faintly defined on outer and with black points 

 at upper and lower extremities ; an indistinct rather diffused 

 medial line, oblique from costa to reniform, oblique and sinuous 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with white, the outer line black, the inner indistinct, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved, with black streaks from just before it to termen 

 in discal and submedian folds ; postmedial area tinged with fuscous 

 and with blackish in submedian interspace, some whitish points on 

 costa ; an indistinct diffused white subterminal line slightly bent 

 outwards at vein 7; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with fuscous, the basal area paler and tinged with 

 ochreous ; a terminal series of dark points ; the underside white 

 irrorated with fuscous, a blackish spot in middle of cell and black 

 discoidal spot, an indistinct diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., New York. Evans Center (Grote), 2 J, 2 2, Suw 

 Jersey, Florida. 1 J. Eip. 44 50 millim. 



