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series of slighl brown striae; the underside with black discoidal 

 spot and traces of curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay (Bamstori), 1 J, Mackenzie R., 

 Fort Good Hope, 1 $ ; U.S.A., Colorado, Garfield Co. (Bruce), 

 1 $ cotype. Exp. 4b' millim. 



3757. Acronycta leporina. 



yor/iia leporina, Linn. Svst. Nat. ed. x. p. 510 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 91. ff. 1-5; Htibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 15-16; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vi. p. 225, pi. 87. f. 3; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust, iii. p. 35; 



Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 59, pi. xi. ff. 1, 2; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 131 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 100. 

 Noctua bradyporina, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 570-1 (1818); Treit. 



Eur. Schmett. v. 1, p. 9(1825) ; Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f.636 ; 



Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 36, pi. 26. f. 3. 

 Apatela vulpiva, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 8(1883); Smith. Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 40. 

 Acronycta bimacula, Maassen, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1871, p. 27. 

 Acronycta semivirga, Tutt, Entoin. 1888, p. 52. 

 Acronycta leporeUa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 245. 

 Acronycta cincracea, Grces. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 310. 

 Acronycta sancta, H. Edw. Ent. Am. iii. p. 185 (1888) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 40. 

 Apatela masta, Dyar, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 29 (1904). 



Head and thorax pure white ; palpi black at sides ; antennae 

 hlackish ; shoulders with black stripes ; metathorax tinged with 

 brown ; tarsi blackish at extremities ; abdomen white dorsally 

 with fuscous hair mixed. Fore wing pure white ; a black mark 

 at base of costa ; subbasal line represented by a hlack point 

 on costa ; a short sinuous black streak below base of cell expanding 

 into a spot at base ; antemedial line represented by an oblique 



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Fig. 19.— Acronycta leporina, <$ . \. 



black striga from costa and inwardly oblique striga from cell ; 

 orbicular absent ; reniform a small black lunule with sinuous 

 black bar above it from costa ; postmedial line represented by a 

 black point on costa, then by a few black scales with more distinct 

 small dentate marks above and below vein 5 and below vein 2, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved at discal fold 

 and below vein 4 ; subterminal line absent ; cilia intersected by 

 black streaks in the interspaces. Hind wing pure white ; the 

 underside with faint discoidal spot. 



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