160 NOCTtTIDiE. 



Bubbasal line represented by traces of a dark striga from costa ; 

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

 denned by blackish, small, round ; reniform defined by blackish on 

 inner side, faintly denned on outer, small ; a faint dark shade from 

 middle of costa to reniform and indistinct oblique waved line from 

 lower.angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then produced to slight dark 

 streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa : a subterminal series of slight whitish 

 marks in the interspaces, excurved below vein 7 and incurved below 

 vein 3; cilia white at tips. Hind wing white, the veins towards 

 termen slightly tinged with brown ; a slight brown terminal line ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small 

 brownish discoidal spot. 



2 . Hind wing brown, the cilia white. 



Hub. Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Lapland, Leech 

 Coll. ; Kussia. Exp. 'S2-A6 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 158; Hffm. Ban p. p. 76, pi. 22. f. 2. 



Differs from A. euphorbice in having a red lateral stripe and no 

 red band on 2nd somite. Food-plants : Heath and Spurge. 0-7-8. 



Sect. III. {Acronycta). Thorax clothed with hair only; abdomen with the 

 basal crest hairy. 



A. Fore wing bluish white rather strongly irrorated with fuscous, cretata. 



B. Fore wing yellowish white, slightly or not irrorated with 



fuscous Icporina. 



3756. Acronycta cretata. (Plate CXXVIL fig. 8.) 



Acronycta cretata, Smith, Ent. News Philad. viii. p. 148 (1897); Smith & 

 Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 58, pi. xi. ft. 3, 4 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. 

 Am. p. 100. 



Head and thorax white with a few fuscous hairs ; palpi and frons 

 black at sides ; antennae blackish ; shoulders with black streaks ; 

 abdomen white dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing white 

 sparsely irrorated with blackish especially on inner medial area and 

 beyond the postmedial line ; a short sinuous black streak below 

 base of cell ; subbasal line represented by some black scales below 

 costa, the antemedial line by diffused blackish marks on costa and 

 below cell ; orbicular represented by a very small black spot, the 

 reniform by a small black lunule with small diffused black mark 

 above it on costa; postmedial line with black point at costa, then 

 only defined by the black irroration beyond it, very strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and with 

 small black spots above and below vein 5, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 and minutely dentate, with diffused black patch beyond it 

 from below vein 3 to above 1 crossed by a slight black streak in 

 submedian fold ; the termen and base of cilia with small black 

 spots in the interspaces. Hind wing silvery white ; a terminal 



