134 NOCTriD-E. 



discoidal spot, traces of postmedial line with dark spols on and 

 below costa and in discal and subrnedian folds, and terminal series 

 of slight dark lnnules. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more suffused with fuscous brown. 



Hub. Japan (Pryer), 1 d , 1 $ type, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 3, 

 Shimonosaki (Leech), 1 3 , Kiushiu, 1 J; X. China, Wei-ha-wei 

 (Fletcher), 1 3 • Exp. 34-33 millim. 



3719. Acronycta menyanthidis. 



Noctua menyanthidis. View. Tab. Verz. ii. p. 50. pi. 2. ff. 1, 2 {1790); Esp. 

 Schmett, iv. p. 461, pi. 144. f . 5 (1789); Sep]). Ins. Ned. iv. p. K'.T, 

 pi. 49 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. if. 6, 7 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 239, 

 pi. 88. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 42, pi. 27. f. 1 ; Stand. 

 Cat, Lep. pal. p. 132. 



Acronycta obsoleta, Tutt, Brit. Noct. i. p. 24 (1891). 



Acronycta scotica, Tutt. Brit. Nuct. i. p. 24 (1891). 



Acronycta svffusa, Tutt, Brit, Noct. i. p. 24 (1891). 



Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown ; palpi brown 

 except at tips; shoulder's and outer edges of patagia with black 

 streaks ; abdomen grey- white tinged with brown, the medial 

 segments with diffused dark bands. Fore wing grey-white slightly 

 suffused with brown and irrorated w ith fuscous ; subbasal line 

 represented by double dark striae from costa and single striga from 

 cell with black streak from it to antemedial line, which is double, 

 oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular a minute 

 diffused black annulus; renil'orm defined by a black lunule on 

 inner side and black points and striga on outer ; a diffused oblique 

 black bar from costa to renil'orm and slight incurved brown line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin, on which there is a dark 

 mark ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, the outer line 

 strong, black, the inner indistinct except at costa, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below 

 vein 4, crossed by a short black fascia in submedian fold from just 

 before it to just beyond it, some white points with short black 

 streaks between them beyond it on costa; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, diffused, whitish, waved, angled inwards at discal fold and 

 slightly defined by fuscous on outer side ; a terminal series of black 

 striae ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing white tinged 

 with brown, especially on basal and terminal areas; the veins 

 streaked with brown; a fine terminal dark line; the underside 

 white slightly tinged with brown, the veins brown, a slight dis- 

 coidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. obsoleta. Rather paler. 



Ab. 2. scotica. Large and bright-coloured, the markings distinct. 

 — W. Scotland. 



Ab. 3. suffusa. Much darker and suffused with fuscous. 



Bab. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; 

 Scandinavia, Lapland ; Russia, St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland. Exp. 34-44 millim. 



