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and single striga from cell with black streak beyond it in sub- 

 median fold defined bj' white above ; antemedial line double, rather 

 difi'used and filled in bj^ brownish in and just below cell, angled 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and slightlj' waved ; orbicular 

 and reniform slightly defined by black, the former with brown 

 centre and white annulus, round, the latter with brown- suffused 

 centre and slight pale annulus, open above and below ; a blackish 

 mark on middle of costa and faint waved line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with slight 

 whitish spots, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate 

 and produced to short black streaks on the veins, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards on vein 1, crossed by 

 a slight black streak in si;bmedian fold from well before it to near 

 termen, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; a minutely dentate 

 white subterminal line with slight black mark beyond it in discal 

 fold ; a terminal series of minute triangular black spots deh'ned by 

 whitish lunules and rather larger spot below vein 2 ; cilia with 

 blackish line near base and whitish tips. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown; the cilia whitish with a slight brown line near base; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, a large blackish discoidal 

 . lunule, waved postmedial line with blackish spot in submedian 

 fold, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Maine, Kittery Point, New Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, 3 5 fjpe, Texas, Arizona. 

 Exp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Like A. ovata, without the white dorsal spots. — H. G. .D. 



3649. Acronycta hasta. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 22.) 



Acronycfa hasta, Giien. Noct. i. p. 45 (1852); Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 87, pi. i. f. 14 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 36. 

 Acronycta telum, Guen. Noct. i. p. 45 (1852). 

 Acronycta smithii, Eiitl. A. M. N. H. (6) xi. p. 401 (1893). 



Head and thorax grey-white irrorated with fuscous ; 2nd joint 

 of palpi with black band ; shoulders with black stripes ; tegulse 

 with slight dark line near base ; tibise with slight dark streaks, 

 the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen gi'ey-white irrorated with 

 fuscous, dorsally suffused with pale reddish brown at base. Pore 

 wing grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line re- 

 presented by double dark striae from costa and a single striga from 

 cell with a slight black streak Irom it to antemedial line with 

 fuscous suffusion below it; antemedial line double, dark, rather 

 diffused, oblique, slightly w-aved and bent inwards to inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black and their centres slightly 

 by fuscous, the former round ; a medial dark spot on costa ; post- 

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

 double black points at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some brownish 

 sufl'usion beyond it, darker from vein 3 to below submedian fold 



