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a. Forewing with black streak in discal fold beyond 



postmedial line . . . . . , . . . . maxima. 



b. Forewing without black steak in discal fold beyond 



postmedial line. 

 a^. Forewing without black shade in submedian 



interspace from base to termen . . , . iria. 



b^. Forewing with black shade in submedian inter- 

 space from base to termen . . . . . . rubiginosa. 



B. Forewing without black streak between orbicular 

 and reniform. 



a. Forewing with distinct black streak below base of 



cell . . . . . . . . . . • ■ . . gast-ridia. 



b. Forewing without black streak below base of cell., hicolor. 



1813. AcROIfYCXA MAXIMA. 



Acronycta maxima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 333 ; Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. 

 Phal. B. M., viii., p. 112, pi. 125, f. 21. 



1813a. AcROXYCTA iria. 



Acronycta iria, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7) iii, p. 113 (1899) ; Hmpsn., Cat. 

 Lep. Phal. B. M. viii, p. 113, pi. 125, f. 22. 



S . Head and thorax grey suffused with pale red-brown ; palpi white 

 the 2nd joint with black band ; antennse with the basal joint black behind 

 at tip ; shoulders with black streak ; tibiee streaked with black ; abdomen 

 whitish dorsally tinged with brown. Forewing whitish suffused and irro- 

 rated with pale red-brown ; subbasal line represented by double oblique 

 dark strise from costa ; a sinuous black streak in submedian fold from base 

 to antemedial line where it forks, giving off a slight spur below at middle ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, the lines very widely separated on 

 costal half; oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 and excurved above 

 inner margin, the outer line angled outwards below costa ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by fuscous, the former whitish with slight rufous centre, 

 rather oblique elliptical, with a black streak from it extending into the 

 reniform which has a rufous centre ; a diffused oblique fuscous line from 

 costa to reniform and traces of an oblique sinuous line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin at antemedial line ; postmedial line double, black 

 filled in with white, the inner line incomplete, bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate, strongly incurved below vein 4, crossed by a black streak 

 in submedian fold from well before it to termen towards which it exiDands, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; the veins of terminal area with 

 slight dark streak ; faint traces of a minutely waved whitish subterminal line 

 with slight dark streaks in the interspaces from it to the series of small black 

 spots on termen and base of cilia, which are white with a slight black 

 line through them. Hindwing white, the veins tinged with brown, the 

 terminal area slightly suffused with brown from apex to submedian fold 



