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spinigera, Ouenee. 



New York ; Pennsylvania. 



connecta, Grote.^ 

 New York. 



funeraliSj Grote and Robinson. 

 Canada ; Ohio. 



iunotata, Guenee. 



DipMJiera Graefii, Grote. / 



New York ; Pennsylvania. 



§ Acronycta, Hiibner, restr. (1816). 



Type : Noctua leporina, Linnaeus. 

 Lupini,® BeJir. 

 California. 



lepiisculina, Guenee. 



Acronycta populi, 2d Missouri Report. 

 Pennsylvania; Missouri. 



insita^ 'Walker. 



New York. Spec, distinct. ? 



§ Megacronycta," Grote (1873). 



Type: Acronycta hast ulif era, Guenie. 



hastulifera, Guente. 



Phalaena hastulifera, Abbot and Smith. 



Apatela americana, Harris. 

 Canada ; Pennsylvania ; Massachusetts ; Southern States. 



5 Acronycta connecta, n. s., i , is the narrowest winged species known to me. The body is 

 rather long and stout. Hoary gray, with a testaceous tiuge, the markings indistinct. The 

 ■wing is darker clouded centrally and above internal margin between the basal and internal 

 black dashes. The costal marks are very faint. The orbicular is a void, rather small annulet, 

 and its more whitish hue contrasts. The reniform is also rather small, distinctly ringed 

 inwardly where it is stained, incompletely margined outwardly where it is whitish. The t. p. 

 line is well removed to the external margin superiorly. A dark shade, not a streak, opposite 

 the cell. Terminal elongate interspaceal black streaks. Hind wings whitish Avith darker 

 clouded borders. Beneath dusted, with faint dot and line. 



Expanse, 1.25 inch. Sharon Springs, from O. Meske. 



6 I have a single specimen of this species that I refer to this section. Compact, stout-bodied, 

 and thickly scaled ; primaries narrow without saggitate marks, median shade distinct, t. p. line 

 continuous with succeeding gray shade, fringes minutely black dotted ; secondaries with 

 immaculate fringes. The specimen is obscurely colored, perhaps stained ; size of leporina. 



' Gr.: fih/aq et Acronycta. lu this section vein 5, is hardly weaker, and the cell is in part 

 closed by a veinlet as strong as vein 5. The fore tibiae are somewhat thickened. I do not 

 think the species belongs to Stephens' genus Apatela, of which we appear to have a wrong idea 



