12S NOCTUTD/E. 



lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique to inner margin at ante- 

 medial line ; postmedial line black defined by white on inner side, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved and slightly sinuous to vein 4, 

 then incurved, crossed by a tine black streak in submedian fold from 

 medial line to termen ; subterminal line only defined by the contrast 

 between the postmedial and terminal areas, dentate, excurved at 

 vein 7 and middle ; the veins of terminal area with slight dark 

 streaks ; a terminal series of black points with slight brown streaks 

 from them intersecting the cilia. Hind wing white, the veins of 

 terminal half tinged with brown, the termen suffused with brown 

 from apex to vein 2; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a black discoidal spot, traces of a postmedial line with 

 minute dark streaks on the veins and blackish spots at costa and 

 submedian folds, a terminal series of small black lunules. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing browner ; abdomen strongly 

 suffused with brown, paler at base ; hind wing tinged with brown, 

 the terminal area suffused with dark brown, a discoidal spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line showing through to upperside; cilia mixed 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 strongly irrorated with brown, the postmedial line strong, minutely 

 waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique. 



Ab. 1. c? . Hind wing wholly suffused with brown, the cilia white 

 with brown points, the underside as in female. — Vancouver. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme (C riddle), 1 $, Vancouver I. 

 (J. J. Waller), 1 J ; U.S.A., New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 

 New York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 J , 2 5 type, Albany, Adiron- 

 dack Mts., Virginia. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. M us. xxi. p. 108, pi. v. f. 9 & pi. \i. f. 10. 



Head black below, the upper half red. Body black, with a 

 dorsal, and three yellow stripes on each side ; cervical shield, anal 

 plate and a dorsal spot on joints 12 and 13 black ; hairs fine, pale, 

 sparse, mostly growing from the tubercles dorsally. Food-plant : 

 Wild cherry.— H. G. 1). 



3711. Acronycta felina. (Tlate CXXVI. fig. 3.) 



Apatela felina. Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. v. p. 208 

 (1880); Smith & Dyar, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. o.°>, pi. xi. f. 9; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 39. 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; sides of palpi 

 and frons blackish ; antennae blackish : shoulders with black 

 stripes ; tibiae streaked with black ; abdomen white tinged with 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing white irrorated 

 with fuscous, the veins with slight dark streaks, the terminal 

 area slightly darker ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell; 

 antemedial line represented by a slight dark mark on costa; orbi- 

 cular slightly defined by black, elongate, pointed at extremity; 

 reniform represented by a blackish discoidal spot with oblique 

 brown bar above it from costa; postmedial line slight, dark, un- 

 usually near termen, excurved below costa, incurved below vein 4, 



