ICKONTCTA, 



151 



cell ; antemedial line indistinct, double, oblique, waved ; orbicular 

 and reniform faintly defined by black, the former round ; traees of 

 a waved medial line incurved below the cell ; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, double, with whitish lunule on it below submedian fold, 

 bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved below vein 3 and 

 angled outwards on vein 1, some minute whitish points beyond it 

 on costa; an indistinct subterminal series of dark marks in the 

 interspaces ; a terminal series of black points with blackish marks 

 beyond them on the cilia. Hind wing pure white ; the veins 

 tinged with brown ; cilia white mixed with brown and with series 

 of sraail dark spots ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal spot. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 tf , Simla (Read, 

 Harford)^ 3 ,5 , 1 2 type, Dharmsala (Hocking), $. Exp. 44- 

 54 millim. 



3744. Acronycta betula?. (Plate CXXYI. fig. 31.) 



Acronycia hctula>, Eilev, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Sue. vii. p. 2, f. 1 (1884); 

 Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. ?.">, pi. ii. f. 19 ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct, N. Am. p. 37- 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; palpi with 

 brown band on 2nd joint; abdomen dorsally suffused with fulvous 

 yellow except at base. Fore wing ochreous white sparsely irro- 

 lated with dark scales; subbasal liue represented by a faint dark 

 point on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, oblique, waved ; 

 orbicular and reniform ochreous faintly defined by rufous, the 

 former moderate, round ; postmedial line rufous defined by whitish 

 on inner side and with some ochreous suffusion on outer, bent out- 

 wards below costa, incurved at discal fold, dentate at veins 4, 3, 

 then strongly angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on 

 vein 1 ; traces of a waved subterminal line from costa to vein 6. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish ochreous especially on 

 inner area ; a slight dark discoidal point and traces of a diffused 

 curved postmedial band ; the underside ochreous white, a slight 

 dark spot at middle of cell and discoidal spot, traces of a curved 

 postmedial line with dark spots at discal and submedian folds, a 

 terminal series of dark points. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Hampshire, Jefferson, Xew York, Long 

 Island, Distr. of Columbia, AVashington, 1 <$ , Pennsylvania, 

 Missouri. E.cp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dynr. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 76, pi. v. ff. 4. . r >. 



Head mottled with black below, red on the vertices of lobes ; 

 body flattened, with a fringe of hairs along the subventral edge, 

 brown, the dorsal tubercles dark, the lateral ones pale ; hairs short, 

 sparse, growing from the skin. Pood-plant : Birch. — H. G. D. 



3745. Acronycta americana. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 32.) 



Thalcena aceris, Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 185, pi. 93 (1797), nee 



Linn. 

 Apatdo. americana, Harris, Eept. Ins. Mass. p. 317 (1841); id. Ins. Inj. 



