ACIMNYi T.v. 1 III 



fuscous, bent outwards below fosta, then indistinctly double, 

 dentate, strongly incurved below vein 4, crossed by a fuscous streak 

 in submedian fold extending to ternien, some pale points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between 

 the postmedial and terminal areas, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 exeurved at middle; a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing 

 white, the veins of terminal half tinged with brown, the termen 

 slightly irrorated with brown; a dark terminal line; cilia chequered 

 brownish and white ; the underside silvery white, the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the veins of terminal half tinged 

 with brown, a dark terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with the lines more distinctly double, tho 

 postmedial line tilled in with whitish and without the dark streak 

 crossing it. — Persia. 



Hah. N.W. Persia, Urumiah (Dal/rii), 1 d ; W. Turkestan, 

 Tureomania, 1 J , Ferghana, Sarawschan. Eay. 42 millim. 



3741. Acronycta megacephala. 



Noctua megacephala, Scbiff. Wieri. Verz. p. 67(1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. 

 ii. p. 175 f 1787) ; Esp.Schmett.iv.pJ 144. ff. 1-4 ; Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., 



Noct. ff. 10, 11 ; Pup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 244, pi. 88. f. (i ; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. lii. p. 37; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 131. 

 Acronycta grumi, Alph. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 3 (1897); 

 Acronycta pulla, Strand, Arch. Naturv. Cliristian. xxv. no. 9, p. 9 (1903). 



cS . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey-white ; 

 2nd joint of palpi with black band ; shoulders and outer edges of 

 patagia with black streaks ; tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with black at extremity. 

 Pore wing whitish almost entirely suffused and irrorated with 

 black-brown ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line double filled in with greyish, 

 oblique, waved ; orbicular whitish defined by black and with slight 

 dark centre, round; reniform slight defined by black on inner side, 

 undefined on outer and with slight dark lunule in centre; an 

 oblique dark striga from costa to reniform and traces of a waved 

 line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 incurved below vein 3, some white points beyond it on costa ; the 

 veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; an indistinct 

 pale lunulate subterminal line extending to the terminal series of 

 blackish points ; cilia white with a series of black points. Hind 

 wing pure white, the veins of terminal area streaked with brown ; 

 a faint subterminal band of dark irroration and a fuscous mark in 

 submedian fold ; a terminal series of dark stria? ; cilia intersected 

 by slight dark streaks ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 tinged and irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, post- 

 medial series of minute dark streaks on the veins and terminal 

 series of small lunules. 



2 . Hind wing more suffused with browu. 



