ACRONTCTA. 1 1 1 



3690. Acronycta leucocuspis. 



Acronycta leucocuspis, Butt. A. M. N. II. (*>) i. p. 78 (1S73) ; id. 111. Het. 

 B. M. iii. p. 12, pi. 44. f. 2. 



Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; 2nd joint of palpi 

 with black band; frons black at sides; antenna? with (he basal 

 joint black behind at extremity ; shoulders and outer edges of 

 patagia with black stripes; tegula? with black medial stripes ; tibia? 

 with black streaks, the tarsi banded black and white : abdomen 

 greyish tinged with brown and irrorafed with black. Fore wing 

 grey-white thickly irrorafed with brown ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by double black stria? from costa ; a black streak in sub- 

 median fold from base to autemedial line, giving off slight spurs 

 above near base and below at middle and forking above and below 

 at autemedial line, which is double, oblique, irregularly waved, 

 the lines rather widely separated towards costa: orbicular white 

 defined by black, small, round, with black streak from it to 

 reniform, which has a brown centre and whitish annulus defined by 

 black on inner side, ill-defined on outer, produced at upper and 

 lower extremities ; an oblique diffused blackish bar from costa to 

 reniform and indistinct oblique sinuous line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin at autemedial line; postmedial line black 

 defined by white on inner side, double at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa. then minutely waved, slightly augled outwards at 

 veins 4, 8, then incurved, crossed by a slight black streak in discal 

 fold from well before it to subterminal line and a stronger 

 streak in submedian fold extending to termen, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; the terminal area with slight dark streaks on 

 the veins ; subtprminal line represented by a series of whitish 

 lunules diffused towards termen ; a terminal series of small black 

 spots ; cilia brown and white at base, white at tips and with 

 slight dark line through them. Hind wing white, the veins 

 brown ; an indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; the terminal area 

 suffused with brown from apex to vein 2 ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark stria? ; cilia mixed with brown at base ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorafed with black, a slight dark streak in cell, 

 black discoidal spot, traces of a waved posttnedial line and terminal 

 series of small blackish lunules. 



Ab. 1. $ . Head, thorax, and fore wing browner ; hind wino- 

 wholly suffused with brown. 



Hah. Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 tf , Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 

 3 d type, Fushiki (Leech), 1 $ ; Corka, Gensan (Leech), 2 J 

 1 2 : X. China, 1 $ . Exp. 40-46 millim. 



3691. Acronycta orientalis. 



Acronycta orientalis, Mann, Wien. ent. Mon. 1862, p. 370, pi 3 f 4- 

 Slaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 132. 



6 . Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown; palpi 



