ACRONYCTA. 



135 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 144 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 255, pi. 121. f. .'!. 



Black-brown or black ; subspiracular line dull reddish or 

 crimson, sometimes interrupted, with fascicles of hair varying from 

 pale reddish brown to black ; head black. Food-plants : Myrica, 

 Calluna, Salix, &c. 8-9. 



3720. Acronycta canadensis. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 10.) 



Acronycta canadensis, Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xsi. p. 57 (1S98) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. IS 1 . Am. p. 100. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with fuscous ; 

 sides of palpi and frons blackish. Fore wing white thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a blackish striga from 

 costa ; a slight blackish streak below the cell to near antemedial 

 line, which is fuscous, rather diffused at costa and inner margin, 

 oblique, slightly angled outwards at median nervure, then incurved ; 

 orbicular absent : reniform a slight blackish lunule obscured by the 

 rather diffused medial line, which is oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then incurved, angled outwards at vein 1 and joining 

 the antemedial line at inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct and 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then formed by whitish lunules 

 with blackish lunules on their outer side, incurved below vein 4, 

 bent outwards at vein 1 and with a slight black streak beyond it in 

 submedian fold on some dark suffusion ; the terminal area with 

 slight dark streaks on the veins ; a terminal series of small black 

 spots with streaks beyond them intersecting the cilia, which are 

 white. Hind wing white slightly suffused and irrorated with 

 brown, the veins brown ; a series of small fuscous spots on the 

 termen and base of cilia, which are white ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and postmedial line 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay (Bamsion), 1 2, Quebec, ^Murray 

 Bay, Alberta, Calgary. Exp. 52 millim. 



3721. Acronycta Cinderella. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 11.) 



Acronycta Cinderella, Smith, Ent. News Philad. viii. p. 14U (1897); 

 Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. t>4, pi. xi. f. 11 ; Dyar, Oat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 100. 



£ . Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous brown ; palpi 

 and frons brown at sides ; antennae brown ; shoulders with blackish 

 streaks ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen white, dorsally 

 suffused with fuscous, vertically irrorated with brown. Fore wing 

 white irrorated with black-brown, the veins with slight dark 

 streaks, the terminal area slightly darker ; a slight sinuous black 

 streak below basal half of cell; subbasal and antemedial lines 

 represented by blackish spots on costa ; orbicular defined by black, 

 very small, elongate elliptical; reniform a small diffused blackish 

 lunule with diffused dark mark above it on costa ; postmedial line 

 slight, dark, unusually near termen, strongly bent outwards below 



