56 NocTiriD^. 



costa and a single striga from cell with slight black streak beyond 

 it in submedian fold ; orbicular white defined by black and with 

 brown centre ; reniforra fulvous yellow defined by black and with 

 slight fuscous lunale on inner side of centre ; medial line black, 

 oblique from costa to median nervare, then bent inwards and oblique 

 to inner margin near postmedial line, which is double filled in with 

 grey, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly 

 incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; a dentate whitish 

 subterrainal line defined by black on outer side, angled inwards in 

 discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of small fuscous spots 

 defined on inner side by a waved whitish line ; cilia fuscous inter- 

 sected with whitish. Hind wing white with some fuscous irroration 

 on terminal area and diffused blackish streaks on the veins of 

 terminal half; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated 

 with black, a small blackish discoidal spot and faint waved post- 

 medial line incurved below costa and vein 4 and with slight spot in 

 submedian fold. 



Hah. Spati^-, Castile ; Etjssia, Crimea, 1 S , 12; Armenia; Asia 

 MiNOE, Pontus, Taurus ; Kurdistan, Egiu. Exp. 36 millim. 



*3632. Craniophora paragrapha. 



Acronycta paragrapha, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 100. f. 8 (1874). 



2 . Head and thorax whitish mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 with black-brown band on 2nd joint ; lower part of frons black- 

 brown, a blackish bar above it ; tegulse with blackish line near 

 base and dorsal patch at tips ; tibiae and tarsi ringed with black ; 

 abdomen dark brown, the base, dorsal crests, anal tuft, and ventral 

 surface paler. Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with dark 

 brown ; a diffused brown streak below base of submedian fold ex- 

 panding into a patch below base of cell ; subbasal line represented 

 by double dark striae from costa ; antemedial line double filled in 

 with white, oblique, waved, excurved in cell ; orbicular and reni- 

 forra with brown centres and white annuli defined by dark brown, 

 the former small, round ; an oblique brown line from costa to outer 

 edge of orbicular ; postmedial line double filled in with white, 

 lunulate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved and below 

 vein 2 bent outwards to near tornus, crossed by a prominent 

 blackish fascia above submedian fold, its lower extremity bent 

 downwai'ds to tornus, some black and white points beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line white, lunulate, with small wedge-shaped 

 black marks beyond it below costa at discal fold and below vein 2; 

 a lunulate white terminal line intersected by slight black streaks 

 on extremities of the veins ; cilia chequered black-brown and white. 

 Hind wing brown, the cilia chequered brown and white ; the 

 underside white tinged with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and 

 diffused curved crenulate postmedial line. 



Hah. C. CoLONT, Knysna (IVmew), type f § in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



