240 



large bla?k lunule at the end of cell and very broad black marginal 

 band ; the cilia white. 

 Hob. Dalhousie; Sikhim. .Rrp. 72 mlflim. 



Genus ACRONYCTA. 



Acronicta, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 62 (1816). 

 Trigena, Hiibn. Verz. p. 200 (1818). 

 Hyboma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 200. 



Thalatha, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 187 (1862). 

 Plataplecta, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i, p. 195 (1878;. 

 *Tycracona, Moore, Lev. Atk. p. 95 (1882). 

 Pseudepunda, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 672. 



Type, A. leporina, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Nearctic, Palaearctic, and throughout the Oriental region. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully developed ; 

 antennae simple in both sexes ; thorax and abdomen without tufts, 

 the latter with long coarse hair on the dorsal part of proximal 

 segments ; legs without spines. Fore wing with the cilia non- 

 crenulate; the inner margin slightly lobed towards base. 



SECT. I. (Acronycta). Palpi obliquely upturned in male, 

 upturned in female. 



1813. Acronycta ansedina, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 19. 

 Trieena maxima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 333; C. $ S. no. 1771. 



(5 . Whitish grey ; palpi black at sides ; thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales : abdomen fuscous. Fore wing with some fuscous 

 blotches on costa ; a waved black fascia in interno-median interspace 

 from base to below the orbicular ; the antemedial double lines very 

 faint ; the orbicular and reuiform black-edged, with a black streak 

 between them, which is sometimes obsolete ; the inner border of 

 reniform double ; the postmedial curved double lunulate line 

 prominent, filled in with white and with a black streak crossing 

 it between veins 1 and 2, and sometimes another between veins 4 

 and 5 ; a marginal series of black spots. Hind wing fuscous white, 

 with a postmedial line ; the cilia whitish. Underside of both wings 

 with a cell-spot and curved postmedial line. 



$ . Darker grey ; fore wing with the streak between the stigmata 

 and also the upper postmedial streak always present ; hind wing 

 darker fuscous ; underside with the cell-spot to hind wing large. 



Hab. Japan; N.W. Himalayas; Punjab; Eangoon. Exp., 3 

 54-60, $ 70 millim. 



1814. Acronycta paucinotata, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax grey ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing 

 grey, with traces of a black subbasal line ; an antemedial minutely 



