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white slightly irrorated with dark brown and tinged with brown 

 in parts ; subbasal line represented by double dark striae from 

 costa ; a sinuous black streak in submedian fold giving off spurs 

 below at middle and above at antemedial line, which is double, 

 oblique, waved, angled inwards in submedian fold ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black, the former small, rather elliptical, the 

 latter produced at upper and lower extremities ; a slightly waved 

 medial line, indistinct except from costa to reniform ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with white, the inner line indistinct, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 Avhite points with minute dark streaks between them bej^ond it on 

 costa, and crossed by a black streak in submedian fold from well 

 before it to termen ; a faint white subterminal line slightlj^ 

 excurved at vein 7 and middle, crossed by a minute dark streak in 

 discal fold ; a terminal series of small black spots with streaks from 

 them intersecting the cilia. Hind wing white tinged with brown 

 especially on the veins and terminal area; a terminal series of faint 

 brown spots with slight marks beyond them on the cilia ; the 

 underside white slightly irrorated Avith brown, a discoidal spot and 

 indistinct postmedial line with dark spots at costa and submedian 

 fold. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 2 $ type. Exp. 36-38 millim. 



*3641. Acronycta lepetita. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 14.) 

 Acronycta lepetita, Smith, Ann. N.Y. Ac. Sci. xviii. p. 94 (1908). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen bhiish grey mixed with olive-brown ; 

 palpi black at sides ^ a black point at base of antenna). Fore wing 

 blue-grey mixed with olive-brown, the postmedial area more 

 suff'used with olive especially towards costa and above submedian 

 streak ; a black streak below base of cell extending to antemedial 

 line towards which it forks, with a slight spur below at middle ; 

 subbasal line represented by an olive spot on costa ; antemedial 

 line double, olive-grey, very oblique to submeian fold near 

 middle ; orbicular slightly defined by black, oblique elliptical, some- 

 times confluent with the reniform, which is slightly tinged with 

 fuscous and incompletely defined by black, rather irregularly lunu- 

 late ; medial shade oblique to the reniform, then obsolete ; post- 

 medial line double filled in with whitish, the outer line black, bent 

 outwards below costa and slightly incurved below vein 4, crossed 

 by a slight black streak in submedian fold extending to termen ; 

 subterminal line only defined by the darker postmedial area; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous, paler at base ; 

 cilia whitish ; the underside with discoidal spot and more or less 

 distinct postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Brownsville. Exp. 26-28 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in 

 Coll. J. B. Smith. 



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