04 NOCTUIDxE. 



*3637. Acronycta hemileuca. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 11.) 



Acronycta hemileuca, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 291, pi. 8. f. 6 (1899); Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 132. 



c? Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and mixed with 

 black ; palpi with the 2nd joint black towards tip ; tarsi brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally mixed with fuscous, 

 the basal crest tinged with brown. Fore wing violaceous grey 

 tinged with brown and irrorated and sufi'used with black ; a black 

 streak below the cell extending to beyond antemedial line ; sub- 

 basal line represented by two black striae from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, rather diffused, oblique to submedian fold, then waved; 

 the medial area with black streak above vein 1 ; orbicular with 

 slight brownish centre and pale annulus incompletely defined by 

 black, its lower extremity produced ; reniform with its centre 

 defined by fuscous and whitish annulus defined by black : a diffused 

 oblique blackish bar from middle of costa ; postpaedial line double, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique to vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved, crossed by a black streak in submedian fold 

 from just before it to termen, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 a faint diffused lunulate subterminal shade from costa to vein 1 ; 

 a wedge-shaped white mark below the extremity of the black 

 streak in submedian fold ; a terminal series of small black Innules ; 

 cilia grey intersected with fuscous. Hind wing pure white with 

 slight brown irroration at apex and terminal series of brown striae ; 

 the underside with the costa very slightly tinged with brown, traces 

 of a discoidal lunula and curved postmedial line from costa to 

 vein 4. 



Hab. TiiiET, Kuku-nor in Coll. Piingeler. Exjj. 32 millim. 



3638. Acronycta strigosa. 



Noctua strigosa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 88 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 142 (1787); Fit. Beitr. pi. 11; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 



iii. p. 39; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 52. f. 1665; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 132. 

 Noctua favillacea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 127. f. 4 (1788); Capieur, Naturf. 



1789" p. 98, pi. 3. ff. 5-8 ; Hiibn. Eur. Selimett, ]S^oct. f. 2; Dup. L6p. 



Fr. vi. p. 230, pi. 87. f. 4. 

 Acronycta bryaphiloides, Horm, Ent. Nachr. xvii. p. 145 (1891). 

 Acronycta cas2Mrii, Steinert, Iris, x. p. 398 (1897), & xii. pi. 2. i. 6; 



Caspari, Jahrb. Nass. Iii. p. 177, pi. 4. ff. 2, 3. 



Head and thorax pale brown slightly mixed with fuscous ; 2nd 

 joint of palpi with black band ; frons with black bars above and 

 between antennae ; shoulders and outer edges of patagia with black 

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

 black above ; abdomen brownish ochreous slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore M'ing greyish ochreous tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a black striga 

 from costa ; a sinuous black streak in submedian fold from base to 



