120 NOCTUID.E. 



3701. Acronycta falcula. (Plate CXXV. fig. 2Q.) 



Apatela falcula, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 86 (1877); Smith & Dvar, Pr. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 109, pi. xii. f. 8; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 38. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey tinged with broAvn ; palpi 

 white at base and with black band on 2nd joint ; frons black at 

 sides; antennae with the 1st joint white in front; shoulders with 

 black stripes ; patagia on outer side and metathorax edged with 

 rufous; tibiae with slight black streaks; abdomen white thickly 

 inorated with greyish fuscous leaving white segmental lines. Fore 

 wing purplish grey suffused with brown ; subbasal line represented 

 by a black striga from costa ; a strong black streak in submedian 

 fold from base to just beyond antemedial line defined by white 

 above, giving off spurs below at middle and above and below at 

 antemedial line, which is represented by a black bar in cell, other- 

 wise almost obsolete, oblique, sinuous : orbicular and reniform 

 large, defined by black, the former rather diamond-shaped, open 

 above, the latter open above and below ; a rather diffused medial 

 black striga from costa : postmedial line black slightly defined by 

 white on inner side, more strongly in submedian interspace, 

 strongly bent outwards below r costa, then sinuous, angled outwards 

 at veins 4, 3, then incurved and angled outwards on vein 1, some 

 white points beyond it on costa and a strong black streak from it 

 to termen in submedian fold ; traces of a whitish sabterminal line 

 slightly ex curved below vein 7 and at middle, the interspaces 

 beyond it with slight dark streaks to the terminal series of points ; 

 cilia white mixed wdth fuscous at tips. Hind wing of male white, 

 the apical area tinged with brown, of female ochieous white, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, postmedial series of 

 minute dark streaks on the veins, incurved below vein 4, and 

 terminal series of black striae. 



Hub. Canada, Manitoba, Cartwright (Heath), 1 § , Winnipeg, 

 Aweme (Griddle), 1 J; U.S.A., New York, Illinois (Bean), 1 5 

 type, Minnesota. Exp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 110. 



Dark brown mottled with greenish, the ventral surface greenish 

 white; a darker dorsal line; warts small with one or two hairs, 

 i. and ii. on somite 12 larger; bead brownish in front, greenish at 

 sides. Food-plant : Hazel. 



3702. Acronycta elizabeta. (Plate CXXV. fig. 27.) 



Acronycta elizabeta, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxiii. p. 125 (1907). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with brown especially on vertex 

 of head ; palpi dark brown, white on outer side at base and at base 

 of 3rd joint ; antennas whitish at base in front ; tegulae with brown 

 line at base and dorsal streak ; tibia' streaked with dark brown, 



