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dentate black line, with slight claviform mark on its outer edge ; a 

 medial striga from costa ; traces of a reniform mark, with black 

 lunule on its lower edge ; traces of a crenulate postmedial line, with 

 slight black streaks beyond it, chiefly towards apex. Hind wing 

 brownish fuscous ; the cilia grey. 



Hob. Kashmir (Me Arthur). Exp. 50 millim. Type in coll. 

 Leech. 



1815. Acronycta aceris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 846. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing clothed with white and dark brown 

 hair; the abdomen grey. Pore wing with indistinct subbasal, 

 double crenulate ante- and postmedial, and indistinct single lunulate 

 submarginal lines ; the orbicular and reniform small, the latter 

 obscured by an indistinct fuscous curved medial line ; a series of 

 marginal and cilial brown spots ; a black streak from base and two 

 streaks crossing the postmedial line, which are almost absent in the 

 Kashmir specimen. Hind wing white, often with slight pale brown 

 suffusion and the veins brown ; a series of pale brown cilial spots. 



Larva pale red, with paired dorsal tufts of hair ; the head 

 streaked with black ; a series of dorsal black streaks and ring-marks. 



Hob. Europe ; Gurais valley, Kashmir. Exp. 38-46 millim. 



SECT. II. (Hyboma). Palpi upturned in both sexes. 

 A. Palpi ivith the 3rd joint short in both sexes. 



1816. Acronycta sinens, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 746; Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, 



pi. 144, fig. 6; C. #&no. 1918. 

 Thalatha sinens, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 187. 



<$ . Pure white ; palpi with the 2nd 

 joint black at base. Pore wing with a 

 short black mark from base below 

 median nervure ; the subbasal and ante- 

 medial double waved fuscous lines 

 indistinct ; a double waved medial line 

 Fig. 134. arising from a fuscous patch on the 



Acronycta nnens, <J . }. 



the orbicular and reniform hardly traceable ; a postmedial irregu- 

 larly waved line arising from a fuscous patch on the costa and 

 with a black patch on it at vein 2 ; a submarginal lunulate line ; a 

 black speck on margin above vein 2. Hind wing with some fuscous 

 suffusion on apical area ; underside with a cell-spot and irregularly 

 waved postmedial line. 



$ with the lines of fore wing brownish fuscous ; the black 

 streak from base obsolete; abdomen and hind wing brownish 

 fuscous. 



Hob. Nilgiris; Moulmein; Borneo. Exp., rf 30, $ 36 millim, 



YOL. II. B 



