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the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with fuscous, the apex 

 tinged with brown ; a terminal series of black Btriae from apex to 

 submedian fold : cilia white intersected with black-brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area tinged with brown in parts, a blackish 

 discoidal spot, excurved postmedial line from costa to vein 7, and 

 series of short streaks on the veins. 



2 • Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous and 

 the postmedial line more distinct. 



Hab. Canada ; I S.A., New Hampshire, Jefferson. New York, 

 Keene Valley, Long I., Pennsylvania, lit. Airy, Pittsburg, 

 Kentucky, 1 J, Mississippi, .Missouri, Kansas City. Exp. 36 

 miilim. 



Larva. Smith & Dvar. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mas. xxi. p. 103; Harris, Ent. Corr. 

 I860, p. 313, pi. ni. f. ± 



Head shining black. Body Mack, with a row of white diamond- 

 shaped dorsal spots, those on joints 5 to 12 with a black medial 

 transverse line ; subdorsal seta; long, spatulate, black. Food- 

 plants : Apple, &C.--H. (t. D. 



:3707. Acronycta morula. (Plate CXXV. fig. 31.) 



Acronycta morula, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 196. pi. iii. 



f. 75 ( 1868): Smith & Dvar. Pp. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 76, pi. ii. f. 10 ; 



Smith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 36. 

 Acronycta %dmi, Harris, Ent. Oorresp. 1869, p. 312. pi. iii. f. 10 (larva). 



Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; 2nd joint of 

 palpi with black-brown patch at sides; irons with lateral dark 

 spots ; patagia with some dark brown on edges; vertex of thorax 

 with pale rufous fascia except on metathorax; shoulders with 

 black stripes ; tibise with black streaks, the tarsi slightly banded 

 with black above : abdomen whitish irrorated with brown and 

 dorsally suffused with reddish brown except at extremity. Pore 

 wing grey-white irrorated with brown ; subbasal line represented 

 by two oblique dark stria? from costa ; a sinuous black streak 

 in submedian fold defined by red-brown suffusion below and 

 extending to the antemedial line, which is double, the lines widely 

 separated towards costa, angled outwards below costa, incurved in 

 cell, angled inwards below the cell and on vein 1 and strongly 

 excurved above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform defined 

 by brown, the former small, round, the latter large and with 

 its centre tinged with rufous, an oblique dark striga above it from 

 costa and an indistinct oblique sinuous line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown defined by whitish on 

 inner side, double at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal fold, angled 

 outwards at vein 3, then bent inwards to below angle of cell 

 and angled outwards on vein 1, some brown suffusion beyond it 

 especially between veins 3 and 1, with a black streak from it to 

 termen in discal fold and crossed by a black streak in submedian 

 fold from medial line to termen, some slight white streaks beyond it 



