124 N0CTU1DJE. 



brown ; cilia white tinged with brown at apex and intersected with 

 black from apex to submedian fold ; the underside with black 

 discoidal spot, brownish marks at middle of costa and postmedial 

 line which is rather diffused to vein 6, then represented by short 

 black streaks on the veins, a terminal series of black striaa. 



Ab. 1. steinerti. Fore wing much more suffused with brown. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. : Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland ; Italy ; Scandinavia ; llrssiA, Finland, Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg; Armenia; F. Siberia, Amurland, 

 Ussuri ; Japan, Yesso (Pryer), 1 J . Exp. 34-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 140 ; Barrett, Brit. Lep. iii. p 238, pi. 121, f. 1. 



Black : a series of transverse yellow bands : 1st somite with four 

 long black hairs with broadly spatulate tips, the 4th-Uth and 11th 

 and 12th somites each with two hairs ; head black, when young 

 whitish suffused with slate-<;rey on somites 4-9, somites 4-8 with 

 slight dorsal prominences ; resting with the head bent round against 

 8th somite and closely resembling a patch of birds' excrement ; when 

 adult the larva can emit a strong odour like carburetted hydrogen. 

 Food-plants : Alder, Birch, Beech, Cormis, &c. 7-9. 



3706. Acronycta funeralis. (Plate CXXV. fig. 30.) 



Acronycta funeralis, Grote & Rob. Proc. Ent. Sue. Philad. vi. p. 17, pi. 3. 

 f. 8 (1866) ; Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 102, pi. iii. f. 7 ; 

 Smitb, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 43. 



cJ . Head and thorax white slightly mixed with black-brown ; 

 2nd joint of palpi with black band; sides of frons black ; antenna: 

 brown, the basal joint black behind ; shoulders and outer edges of 

 patagia with black stripes ; tibiae striped with black, the tarsi 

 banded black and white : abdomen white mixed with fuscous, the 

 dorsal crest blackish. Fore wing white more or less irrorated with 

 fuscous, the terminal area tinged with grey-green, the inner area 

 black extending to cell at base, leaving some white on base of inner 

 margin and narrowing to a point at tornus ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by an oblique wedge-shaped black spot from costa, the ante- 

 medial line by a wedge-shaped spot from costa, bar from cell and 

 indistinct double line filled in with greyish angled outwards above 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by fuscous, 

 the former large, round, more distinctly defined by black on outer 

 side, the latter on inner side, a diffused black patch from middle of 

 costa extending to between their upper parts; postmedial line fine, 

 blackish defined by white on inner side, bent outwards below costa, 

 then waved, strongly incurved below vein 4 and angled outwards 

 on vein 1, crossed by a strong black streak in submedian fold from 

 just before it to termen with blackish suffusion above and below it 

 just beyond postmedial line, the costa beyond it with alternating 

 black and white spots ; a whitish subterrainal line excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle, angled inwards at discal fold and incurved 

 below vein 3 ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing white, 



