114 NOCTUIIhTC. 



dentate, strongly incurved below vein 4, crossed by a black streak 

 in submedian told from well before it to termen towards which it 

 expands, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; the veins of 

 terminal area with slight dark streaks • faint traces of a minutely 

 waved whitish subterminal line with slight dark streaks in the 

 interspaces from it to the series of small black spots on termen 

 and base of cilia, which are white with a slight black line through 

 them. Hind wing white, the veins tinged with brown, the 

 terminal area slightly suffused with brown from apex to submedian 

 fold and with a terminal series of slight dark lunules ; the under- 

 side with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a black 

 discoidal spot, faint traces of postmedial line with blackish spot 

 in submedian fold, and terminal series of slight dark lunules. 



2 . Hind wing with indistinct sinuous postmedial line and the 

 terminal area more suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Punjab, Kulu, Sultan pur (G. Young), 2 J , 1 5 f)'P e - 

 Exp. 50-54 millim. 



3094. Acronycta hercules. 



Acronycta hercules, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 2 (1874) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 131. 

 Acronycta elciyata, Oberth. fit. Ent. x. p. 20, pi. 2. f. 3 (1884). 



J . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous brown ; 2nd joint 



of palpi and irons with black patches at sides ; shoulders with 



black spots ; tegulse dark at tips ; patagia with dark upper edges ; 



pectus tinged with rufous at sides, the tibiae with blackish streaks ; 



abdomen grey-white irrorated with fuscous and tinged with 



ochreous at base and on ventral surface. Fore wing grey-white 



thickly irrorated with fuscous brown ; subbasal line represented by 



double oblique stria? from costa ; a slight dark streak helow base 



of cell ; antemedial line double, oblique, dentate, the lines widely 



separated, the outer line angled outwards below costa, the inner 



line inwards below cell, angled inwards on vein 1 and bent inwards 



to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform large, incompletely defined 



by fuscous, the former rounded and with short black streak from 



it to the latter which has its centre tinged with rufous ; an 



indistinct irregular medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle 



of cell, angled inwards in submedian fold and bent outwards to 



inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, 



strong!}' bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate, excurved 



to vein 4, then incurved, with dentate black mark before it in 



submedian fold and whitish points with black streaks between them 



beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of 



faint whitish lunules in the interspaces ; a series of black points 



on termen and base of cilia. Hind wing white, the basal area 



suffused with reddish brown, the veins brown ; some brown suffusion 



on terminal area from apex to below vein 2 ; a series of fuscous 



points on termen and base of cilia from apex to vein 2 ; the 



underside white, the basal area faintly tinged with ochreous. the 



