N0CTUID;E. ACRONYCTA. 



fuscous fimbria, and some of the nervures of that colour towards the apex : 

 cilia irregularly interrupted with fuscous. 

 Caterpillar black, with yeUow dorsal spots, and elongate capitate ha.rs : -it feeds 

 on the alder, oak, bh-ch, willow, poplar, Ume, &c.; and the imago is found to- 

 wards the beginning of June. 



Rare, but widely dispersedj specimens having been taken in 

 Norfolk, Huntingdonshire, Dorsetshire, the New Forest, Devon- 

 shire, &c. " Collingbourne-wood, May 29, I828r-Rev. G. 1. 

 Rudd. " AUesley and ColeshiU."— i?^t^. W. T. Bree. 



tSp. 4. strigosa. Ms oMicisfusco cinereo.ue variis, Uneolis trihus atris ante 



margineminteriorem. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 ? Un.) ^ „^ ,r„ .901 



No. strigosa. Wien. T.-Ac. strigosa. Steph. Catal. part u. p. 92. Ao. 6281. 



Head and thorax cinereous sprinkled with fuscous, with a slender black lateral 

 1 ne • anterior wings whitish-gray mixed with dusky-brown, mth a pale str ga 

 bLTemiddCandana^^^^^^^ 



of which is bordered with black, and the latter partiaUy so; the inner edge 

 o le wing is fuscescent, with three longitudinal black streaks : on the Inn er 

 Lrgin is a slender black Une ; and the ciha are white, interrupted with dusky : 

 Tolior wings grayish-ash, with a transverse striga beyond the middle, and 



C:te:;r;;S:en,with amrregular broad, yellowish b. dorsal 

 tTsprinkled with black; head redchsh :-it feeds on the blackthorn and 

 mountain-ash. 

 Mr. Haworth possesses a single specimen of this insect, which, I 



believe, was captured in Norfolk:-! have not seen it in any other 



collection. 



Sp 5. Psi. Ms anticis cinereo-fuscis, characteribus Psi nigris, posticis fusees^ 

 centibus,Jimbrid saturatiore. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6-7 Im.) 



. , -r. • 7 iq<?_Ap Psi Stcph. Catal. part n. p. y^- 

 Ph. No. Psi. Linne.—Don. iv. pi. 133.— Ac. rsi. oup f 



No. 6282. 

 Head thorax, and abdomen ashy-brown, the sides of the two former with a 

 Clack line anterior wings also ashy-brown, with a cleep back elongate sub- 

 ramose line at the base, and another towards the anal angle, resembhng h 

 letter ^ • on the costa are some abbreviated black streaks, and between the 

 stigmata' a black signature, somewhat resembhng the letter ., but sometimes 

 inLinct; near the hinder margin is an irregular dentate black striga, with a 

 faint black ^ towards the apex; the anterior stigma is round and margined 

 with black, but the posterior is nearly obhterated; ciha fuscous-ash a the 

 base, white at the apex, and irregularly interrupted with dusky: posterior 

 wings more or less fuscescent, with the nervures at the apex and the hinde 

 margin darker. 



