144 NocTtrriLK. 



surface white. Fore wing grey-white, the costal half suffused with 

 hrown, the inner half irrorated with brown, the median nervure 

 and vein 1 defined by slight black streaks on each side on medial 

 area and the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by a very oblique black striga from costa 

 with slight black streak beyond it on subcostal nervure; a fine 

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

 which is represented b)' very oblique black streaks from costa, in 

 cell and above inner margin and traces of a line from cell to vein 1 ; 

 orbicular represented by two black points, with a slight whitish 

 streak in discal fold from it to the reniform, which is defined by 

 slight black points ; a slight very oblique medial black streak from 

 costa; postmedial line obsolescent, double towards costa, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 3, then 

 angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1, crossed 

 by a black streak in submedian fold from well before it to termen ; 

 the interspaces of terminal area with short black streaks. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white faintly tinged with reddish brown especi- 

 ally on the veins and apical area ; the underside with the costal 

 area slightly tinged with red-brown, traces of a discoidal point and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hub. Canada ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Evans Center 

 (Grate), 3 J, 1 $ type, Mississippi, Florida, Oregon, Portland, 

 Colorado, Pacific Coast. Exp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 99. 



Head with the vertex dotted with black on a red ground, pale 

 on the face. Pody green on the sides, a dorsal red-brown (or 

 white) band that widens on joints 6-10, narrowly yellow-edged ; 

 hairs sparse, fine, longer on joint 2. Food-plants : Chestnut, Oak, 

 &c— H. G. D. 



3734. Acronycta barnesi. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 24.) 



Aerovi/eta bamcsii. Smith, Ent. News Philad. viii. p. 153 (1807) ; Smith & 

 Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 162, pi. xiii. f. 10; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. 

 Am. p. 104. 



J . Head and thorax grey-white largely mixed with black- 

 brown ; 2nd joint of palpi with black band; tegulae with brown 

 patch at tips ; patagia broadly edged with black ; thorax with 

 paired black stripes ; the tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen 

 grey mixed with dark brown and dorsally suffused with brown. 

 Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with black-brown ; a 

 diffused black-brown fascia above vein 1 to medial line and a slight 

 streak above inner margin from near base ; subbasal line absent ; 

 antemedial line very indistinct, double, oblique, angled outwards 

 below costa and inwards below median nervure; orbicular and 

 reniform absent; medial line formed by a curved series of small 

 elongate dark marks ; postmedial line very indistinct, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4 and with 

 slight brown suffusion beyond it, with dark streaks from it to 



