AC-RON' YCTA. 14* 



1 9 type, Manitoba, Aweme (Cnddle), 2 J, Br. Columbia, Kaslo; 

 U.S.A., New York, 1 d , 2 ? . Exp. 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Smith &Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 1(12. 



Head black, shining. Body black, reddish subventrally ; warts 

 large, the hairs in dense tufts, red on joints 2-5 and 12-13, pale 

 yellow on the other segments. Food-plants : Willow, &c. — H. G. D. 



Ab. dolorosa. Same as A. distaiis, the amount of red hair 

 variable, sometimes all the hairs red. — H. G. D. 



3732. Acronycta edolata. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 22.) 



Apalda edolata, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 158 (1881); id. 111. Essay, 1882, 

 p. 49. pi i. f. 4; Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 164, pi. iv. 

 f. 1 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 45. 



<3 . Head and thorax brownish white mixed with dark brown ; 

 palpi whitish with black band on 2nd joint ; patagia broadly edged 

 with dark brown : tegula? and thorax with paired dark brown 

 stripes ; tibiae streaked with black ; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 fuscous and dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey 

 mostly suffused with black-brown, some whitish at base of inner 

 margin, the veins with pale streaks to postmedial line; snbbasal 

 line represented by two very oblique black striae from costa; a 

 slight black streak in submedian fold from base to antemedial line, 

 which is indistinct, double filled in with greyish, oblique, angled 

 outwards below costa, in submedian fold and above inner margin; 

 orbicular indistinctly defined by black, small, rather elongate 

 elliptical ; reniform absent ; postmedial line black defined by grey 

 on inner side, bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate, 

 angled inwards in discal fold and strongly in submedian fold, then 

 outwards on vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa; faint 

 traces of an irregular whitish subterminal line, the area beyond it 

 pale grey with strong black streaks in the interspaces intersecting 

 the cilia. Hind wing pure white, the base, veins, costa, and apical 

 part of termen slightly tinged with brown ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, a slight dark mark on costa 

 beyond middle. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona {Prescott), 2 <5 type. Exp. 44-46 millim. 



3733. Acronycta lithospila. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 23.) 



Acronycta lifkospila, Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II. xvi. p. 2-10 (1874); 

 Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 98, pi. i. f. 13 ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 45. 



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

 and with red-brown band on 2nd joint; basal joint of antennae 

 white in front ; the back of head with white streaks above eyes ; 

 fcegulse with blackish medial streak; prothorax with rufous patch ; 

 tarsi fuscous slightly ringed with white ; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with brown and suffused with reddish brown at base, the ventral 



