76 NOCrUIDiE: 



filled ill with white from costa to vein 3, bent outwards below 

 costa, then lunulate, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, 

 a black patch beyond it on costal area with some white 2)oints 

 on costa, the black suffusion extending beyond it on inner area, 

 and with black streak from it to termen in submedian fold ; sub- 

 terminal line white faintly defined by brown on inner side and on 

 outer by black with black streaks on the veins, minutely waved, 

 angled outward at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine black 

 terminal line ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing red- 

 brown with traces of a curved postmedial line ; cilia white with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal lunule and 

 curved crenulate postmedial line. 



Hab. E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri in Coll. Piingeler ; jAPAif. 

 Exp. 34-40 millim. 



*3653, Acronycta crenulata. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 2-1.) 



Acronycta crenulata, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 198 (190(5). 



Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown ; palpi 

 except at tips and sides of frons black-brown; antennae blackish 

 except at base ; tegulse with dark line near tips ; metathorax with 

 paired black points ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 Avhitish suffused wnth brown. Fore wdng white almost wholly 

 suff'used with pale red-brown ; subbasal line indistinct, double, 

 blackibh filled in with white, excurved below costa and ending at 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line double, blackish filled in with whitish, 

 oblique, waved ; orbicular a small round white spot slightly defined 

 by black; reniform slightly defined by black and with white lunule on 

 its outer edge ; medial line with oblique blackish striga from costa, 

 indistinct and waved from low^er angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line double, black, filled in with white lunules, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa and a short black fascia in sub- 

 median fold from it to subterminal line, which is indistinct, whitish, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of small 

 black spots defined by slight whitish lunules, cilia chequered white 

 and blackish. Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially on 

 terminal area ; an indistinct diffused postmedial line ; cilia white 

 ■with some brownish spots ; the underside whitish, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a diffused brown bar from middle of costa, 

 small discoidal spot, and crenulate postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebca {Pratt), type f S in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. Exjj. 44 millim. 



