104: NOCTUIDJ5. 



3683. Acronycta lobeliae. (Plate CXXV. fig. 18.) 



Acronyda lobelia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 44 (1852); Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. xxi.p. 82, pi. ii. f. 11 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 36. 

 Acronycta grotei, Butl. A. M. N. H. (6) xi. p. 4U0 (1898). 



Head and thorax grey -white mixed with fuscous ; palpi with 

 black band on 2nd joint ; frons with lateral black marks ; sboulders 

 with black streaks ; tegulse and patagia with black streaks at sides ; 

 pro- and mesothorax with slight paired black marks ; tibiae with 

 strong black streaks, the tarsi slightly banded with black above ; 

 abdomen dorsally suffused with pale reddish brown, the basal crest 

 grey, the anal tuft and ventral surface white mixed with fuscous. 

 Fore wing grey- white suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; sub- 

 basal line represented by double black striae from costa and a single 

 striga from cell ; a very strong black streak in submtdian fold from 

 base to outer side of antemedial line, which is double, oblique, 

 waved, angled outwards below costa and excurved above inner 

 margin ; orbicular white defined by black, small, oblique elliptical, 

 a strong curved black streak from its lower edge to lower extremity 

 of reniform, which is large, defined by black on inner side, indistinctly 

 defined on outer and with black points at its upper and lower 

 extremities ; an indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to reni- 

 form, oblique and sinuous from lower angle of cell to inner margin 

 at antemedial line; postmedial line double filled in with white, the 

 outer line black, bent outwards below ccsta, then dentate, slightly 

 angled inwards at discal fold and strongly incurved below vein 2, 

 some dark suffusion beyond it in submedian interspace, a black 

 streak from it to near termen in discal fold and a strong black 

 streak from just before it to termen in submedian fold ; traces of 

 a minutely waved whitish subterminal line ; cilia intersected by 

 black streaks from just before termen. Hind wing white tinged 

 with reddish brown and the terminal area with fuscous, the veins 

 brown ; cilia white intersected by slight brown streaks ; the 

 underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a slight black streak in base of cell, a black discoidal spot, 

 a crenulate postmedial line ending in a dark spot in submedian 

 fold, and a terminal series of blackish points. 



Hub. Canada ; U.S.A., New York (Doubleday), 1 <$ type, Evans 

 Center (Grote), 3 5 type grotei, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida, 

 Minnesota, Kansas (Snoiv), 2 J , 1 §, Douglas Co., Louisiana, 

 Texas. Exp. 48-58 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat, Mus. xxi. p. 83, pi. vii. f. 24. 



Head black. Body blackish with a broken dorsal red stripe ; 

 hairs sparse, fine, short, mostly growing from the tubercles dorsally. 

 Food-plant : Wild Cherry. — H. G. D. 



