G2 N0CTUIDJ5, 



lA-. Fore wing with the medial 



area slightly paler aesarea. 



ill. Fore wing tinged with 



purplish impJeta. 



<!*io. Hind wing white tinged with 



grey illita. 



Ifi. Fore wing with prominent series of 

 wliitish lunules on postmedial line. 

 «9. Fore wing whitish grey, the white 

 orbicular not strongly con- 

 trasting. 

 «io. Fore wing with the orbicular 



round pndnosa. 



ii". Fore wing with the orbicular 



more elongate elliptical consanyuis. 



U->. Fore wing browner grey, the 

 white orbicular strongly con- 

 trasting alhistigma. 



h^. Fore wing with prcjminent white spot 

 on postmedial line in submedian 



fold rumicis. 



b^. Hind wing more or less strongly tinged 

 with orange. 

 a'. Hind wing without dark discoidal 



lunule lutea. 



hi. Hind wing with dark discoidal lunule catocaloida. 



3635. Acronycta theodora. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 9.) 



Acronycta theodora, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 223 (1894) ; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het. ii. p. 472, pi. 93. f. 3. 



Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with black scales ; 2ijd joint of palpi with black band ; 

 frons with black bar ; tegulsB with slight black line near base and 

 black tips : shoulders and outer edge of patagia streaked with 

 black ; tibiae streaked with black, the tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing grey-white 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 striae from costa and cell, with black fascia from it to antemedial 

 line in submedian fold ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved, 

 angled outwards below costa and inwards in submedian fold and on 

 vein 1, a black fascia above vein 1 from just beyond it to post- 

 medial line ; orbicular and reniform defined by black ; the former 

 round, the latter with its centre defined by ftiscous ; an oblique 

 fuscous bar from costa to reniform and indistinct dentate line from 

 cell to inner margin closely approximated to the postmedial line, 

 Avhich is double, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly 

 incurved below vein 3 and angled outwards on vein 1, with a black 

 fascia in submedian fold from it to termen, towards which it forks, 

 a streak in discal fold from it to subterminal line and some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; a subterminal series of whitish lunules 

 from below costa to vein 4 defined on inner side by fuscous 

 suffusion ; a terminal series of small wedge-shaped black spots 



