7b NOCTUID^. 



telow cell ; a rather diffused sinuous black streak in submedian 

 fold from base to well bej'ond antemedial line, which is rather 

 indistinct, double, waved, oblique, angled inwards in submedian 

 fold and bent inwards to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined bj^ black, the former pure white with some brown in centre, 

 large, round, the latter with dark lunule in centre ; medial line 

 rather diffused, very oblique from costa to reniform, dentate below 

 the cell ; postmedial line double filled in with white, bent outwards 

 below costa, then strongly dentate, incurved below vein 8, crossed 

 by dark suffusion in submedian interspace from medial line to 

 termen and a dark streak in discal fold, some white points beyond 

 it on costa; a whitish dentate subterminalline with dentate blackish 

 marks beyond it in the interspaces connected with the terminal 

 series of triangular black spots ; cilia with faint dark line near 

 base and series of black points at tips. Hind wing white ; the 

 veins tinged with brown ; the terminal area suffused with brown 

 from apex to vein 2 where there is a dark mark ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins. 



Eah. U.S.A., Oregon, Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 $ , Gar- 

 field Co. Exp. 48 millim. 



3656. Acronycta brumosa. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 27.) 



Acronycta brumosa, Guen. Noct. i. p. 52 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 43. 

 Apatela persuasa, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 271 (1575); Smith 



& Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 130, pi. iii. t. 11 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. 



N. Am. p. 103. 



c? . Head and thorax brownish grey mixed with black and 

 white ; palpi with black patch on 2nd joint ; frons with black bar ; 

 basal joint of antennae white in front ; tegulae with black medial 

 line and some black near tips ; shoulders and outer edges of patagia 

 with black streaks ; tibiae with some black marks, the tarsi banded 

 black and white ; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with fuscous, 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and 

 thickly irrorated with black, the submedian interspace mostly 

 suffused with black to the medial line, some brown suffusion on 

 ])ostmedial area ; subbasal line represented by double black striae 

 from costa ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved, angled out- 

 wards below costa and inwards below median nervure ; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by black, the former white with brown centre, 

 elongate elliptical, the latter with its inner part darkened by the 

 medial line which is very oblique and diffused from costa to reni- 

 form, oblique and waved from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 3 and angled outwards on vein 1, some dark suffusion 

 from it to near termen in discal fold and submedian interspace and 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, waved, 



