ACKONYCTA. 115 



costal and inner areas with slight dark irrorafcion, a black discoidal 

 lunule, small post medial spots ou costa and in submedian fold, and 

 terminal series of points. 



$ . Hind wing more suffused with brown. 



Hid>. E. SrsBRiA,, Amurland, 1 $ , Ussuri ; Japan, Tokio (Maries), 

 2 3 , Oiwake (Pryer), 1 J, Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 4 J , 2 £; 

 China, Foo-chow (de la Touche), 1 § . Exp. 60-66 millim. 



3695. Acronycta rubiginosa. 



Acronycta nibiginosa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 178 (1862) ; 



Swinh. Cat. Het,. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 30. 

 Tricena denticulata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 408 ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. 



vii. p. 45, pi. 125. f. 8 : Hmpsn. Moths lad. ii. p. 242. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black ; palpi with 

 black spot on 2nd joint near extremity ; irons with lateral black 

 bars ; patagia with black streaks on outer edge ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen whitish suffused and irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing grey almost wholly suffused with brown and irrorated 

 with black, the terminal area paler; a diffused black fascia in 

 submedian fold from base to termeu ; subbasal line represented by 

 double oblique black stria? from costa and single striga from cell ; 

 antemedial line hardly traceable, double, oblique, waved, with 

 double blackish points on costa, vein 1 and inner margin ; orbicular 

 and reniform incompletely defined by black, the former whitish, 

 oblique elliptical, the latter very indistinctly defined ; a very 

 oblique medial dark shade from costa to lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial line double filled in with whitish in parts, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 3 and angled 

 outwards on vein 1 ; some whitish points with slight blackish 

 marks between them beyond it on costa and a brown shade from 

 it to termen at middle ; small dentate subterminal blackish marks 

 iu the interspaces from below costa to vein 4 ; a terminal series of 

 small triangular black spots with dark streaks from them intersecting 

 the cilia. Hind wing white ; the veins tinged with brown ; a 

 series of small bl lckish terminal spots with blackish marks beyond 

 them on the cilia, which are mixed with brown ; the underside with 

 the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a brownish patch 

 on middle of costa, slight discoidal spot and traces of a postmedial line 

 with blackish spot on costa, waved to vein 4, then oblique. 



Hab. Kashmir, Scinde Valley (Leech), 1 $ ; Punjab, Simla 

 (Harford), 1 <5 , Dharmsala (Hocking), 2^,2$ type denticulata ; 

 Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), type f in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 42- 

 44 millim. 



3696. Acronycta taurica. (Plate CXXV. fig. 230 



Acronicta taurica, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 132 (1801). 



$ . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 2nd joint of palpi with black band ; irons black at sides : antennae 



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