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streak iu submedian fold to just beyond the antemedial line, which 



is indistinct, doable, the lines rather widely separated towards 

 costa, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular incompletely defined by black, 

 rather oblique elliptical ; renit'orm faintly defined, with an oblique 

 black striga on inner side, an oblique black striga above it from 

 costa; postmedial line blackish defined by white on inner side, 

 double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate ; excurved 

 to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some brown suffusion beyond it 

 between veins 3 and 1, crossed by black streaks iu discal and sub- 

 median folds, the latter extending almost to termen, some slight 

 white streaks with black points between them beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line absent ; a series of small black spots on termen 

 and base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish brown ; 

 cilia white ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a slight dark streak in base of cell, a black discoidal spot, 

 an indistinct diffused sinuous postmedial line with minute dark 

 streaks on the veins, and terminal series of small black lunules. 



Hob. Canada (Norman), 2 rf , Ontario, Ottawa (Fletcher, Young, 

 Qibson), 4 rf , 2 $, London (Saunders), 2 J , 1 $ , Manitoba, 

 Aweme (Griddle), 1 ? ; U.S.A., Maine, Xew Hampshire, New 

 York, '36,52, Buffalo, 1 tf , 1 $ , Trenton Falls (Doubleday), 

 2 d 1 , Schenectady, Kendall, Rochester, Long Island, lthode Island, 

 1 $ , Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merrick), 1 £ , New Jersey, 

 Histr. of Columbia, Washington, Michigan, Hastings, 1 J, Wis- 

 consin, Milwaukee Co., 1 6, Georgia, Nebraska, West Poiut, 

 Kansas (Snow), 1 J , 1 £ . Exp. 40-4(5 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 80, pi. v. ff. 7, 8. 



Head black, the vertices of the lobes red. Body purplish on the 

 sides, with a blackish dorsal stripe that ends on a rounded elevation 

 on joint 12, and contains a series of dorsal markings consisting of 

 a square black spot with two red and two yellow dots with a 

 lateral arm ; a broad greyish lateral band : hairs growing from 

 the tubercles dorsally, supplemented by whitish ones laterally, 

 growing from the skin. Food-plants : Flm, Apple, (fee. — H. G. D. 



3716. Acronycta spinigera. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 8.) 



Acronycta spinigera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 45 (1852); Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 122, pi. xii. f. 5 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 39. 

 Apatela harvei/ana, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 418; Smith 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 39. 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; palpi white at base, 

 the 2nd joint with black band ; shoulders streaked with black : 

 mid and hind tibiae streaked with black, the tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen whitish largely mixed with brown, the 

 ventral surface paler. Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by double dark striae from costa 

 and single striga from cell ; a fine black streak in submedian fold 

 defined by whitish above and brown below and extending to outer 

 edge of antemedial line, which is double, oblique, waved, angled 



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