ACKONYCTA. 71 



3646. Acronycta modica. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 19.) 



Acronycta modica, Wlk. ix. 56 (1856); Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 sxl. p. 138, pi. ii. f. 4, & pi. iv. f. 9; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 44. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white slightly tinged with 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous ; 2nd joint of palpi with black 

 band ; frons with black bar ; tegulae with slight black medial line ; 

 shoulders with black streaks ; tibiae with slight black streaks, the 

 tarsi banded with black. Fore wing gre3'-white tinged with brown 

 and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by 

 double black striae from costa and single striga from cell ; ante- 

 medial line double, oblique, waved ; orbicular and reniform whitish 

 defined by a few black scales and with brownish centres, the former 

 round ; a blackish striga from middle of costa and a faint line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled 

 in by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved 

 and produced to short black streaks on the veins, incurved below 

 vein 3, crossed by a black streak in submedian fold from well 

 before it to near termen, some white points with minute black 

 streaks between them beyond it on costa; subterminal line white, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle and 

 with a minute black streak on it at discal fold ; a terminal series 

 of black striae defined by whitish lunules ; cilia with slight dark 

 line through them and series of black points at tips. Hind wing 

 greyish tinged with yellowish on basal and inner areas, the terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous and the veins of terminal half with 

 dark streaks ; a slight discoidal spot ; cilia ochreous white Avith a 

 slight dark line through them ; the underside white irrorated with 

 fuscous, a blackish discoidal spot, rather diffused waved postmedial 

 line, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York (Doiihledat/, Grote), 2 S , 

 2 5> type, Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merriclc), 1 <S , Distr. of 

 Columbia, Washington, Minnesota, Texas, I cS , I 2 • ■^•^■p' 38-42 

 millim. 



Larva. Head brown-mottled, a black line around clypeus. Body 

 brown with a dark lateral shade, heaviest above, joining acro.'^s on 

 joints 12-13; hairs nearly single, fine, obscure. Pood-plant: Oak. 

 — H. G. D. 



3647. Acronycta ovata. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 20.) 



Acrom/cta ovata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 80, pi. ii. f 14 

 (1873) ; Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 135, pi. iv. ff. 7-8, & 

 pi. xii. f. 10 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 43. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown ; 2nd joint of 

 palpi with black band ; shoulders with black streaks ; tibiae streaked 

 with black, the tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing grey tinged with 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous; subbasal line represented by 

 double black striae from costa and single striga from cell; a rather 



