ACBCOJYCTA. 147 



discal fold, excurved at middle, bhen incurved and with white 

 streak in submedian fold from it to just before termen ; a terminal 

 series of small brown lunules ; cilia red-brown intersected with 

 white. Hind wing white slightly tinged with brownish yellow at 

 base and on inner area ; the terminal area suffused with red-brown 

 from apex to below vein 2 ; a terminal series of slight brown strioe 

 from apex to vein 2 ; cilia white with faint brown spots on apical 

 half; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a 

 slight brown discoidal spot, indistinct sinuous postmedial line and 

 diffused subterminal band from costa to vein 2. 



5 . Hind wing strongly tinged with brownish yellow, the 

 terminal band extending to tornus leaving a yellowish patch on 

 termen in submedian interspace. 



Hah. E. Siberia, TJssuri; Japan, Oiwake (Pri/er), 1 2 > Yoko- 

 hama (Pri/er), 3 J , 1 $ type; Corea, Gensan (J to), 2 $. Exp: 

 42-52 mi'llim. 



3738. Acronycta raphaelis. 



Acronycta rapkael, Oberth. Efc. Ent, x. p. 19, pi. 2. f. 9 (1884); Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 133. 

 Acronycta jidseni, Grass. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 311. 



<S . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with whitish : palpi 

 with the 2nd joint blackish ; outer edges of patagia w r ith blackish 

 streak ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen whitish suffused 

 with red-brown, the basal crest black. Fore wing violaceous grey 

 thickly irrorated and suffused with dark red-brown, the basal, 

 costal, and inner areas pale; subbasal line represented by slight 

 double dark strise from costa ; a diffused blackish streak in sub- 

 median fold from near base to antemedial line which is almost 

 medial, double, oblique, nearly straight ; orbicular and reniform 

 rather indistinctly defined by dark brown, the former round with 

 brown centre, the latter suffused with brown ; a diffused dark bar 

 from costa to reniform and oblique line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin at antemedial line ; postmedial line double, filled in 

 with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then incurved, excurved 

 at vein 4, then strongly incurved and rather oblique to inner 

 margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal 

 line indistinct, grey, defined on inner side by an oblique dark bar 

 from costa and on outer by slight dark spots, somewhat excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved; cilia chequered dark 

 ivd-brown and white. Hind wing white slightly suffused with 

 red-brown, the terminal area somewhat darker ; an indistinct 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line incurved below vein 4 ; cilia 

 white with series of brownish spots at base : the underside white 

 tinged with red-brown, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 red-brown, a dark bar from costa to discoidal spot and rather 

 diffused postmedial line incurved below vein 4. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 J , Ussuri. Exp. 36 millim. 



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