80 NOCTDiBJi:. 



30o8. Acronycta inclara. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 28.) 



Acronijcta hainamelis. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 141, pi. ii. 



ff. 1, 2, 3, & pi. xii. f. 12 (nee Guen.). 

 Acronycta inclara. Smith, Can. Eut. xxxii. p. 335 (1900). 

 Acrmiycta brumo?a, Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 103 (nee Guen.). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous and black, the 

 vertex of thorax paler ; palpi whitish at base and with black band 

 on 2nd joint ; frons with black bar ; tegulae with diffused black 

 band near base defined by whitish at base ; tibiae streaked with 

 black ; the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 fuscous and dorsally suffused w^ith brown, the basal crest whiti-<h. 

 Pore wing grej'-white thickly irrorated with fuscous and suffused 

 ill parts with brown, the basal area suffused with black to the outer 

 antemedial line leaving some yellowish on base of inner margin ; 

 subbasal line repi'esented by double black strise from costa ; ante- 

 medial line double, minutely waved, oblique, the inner line angled 

 inwards below the cell ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the 

 former whitish with brown centre, round, the latter with its centre 

 suffused with brown ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely waved, below vein 3 bent inwards to lower edge of 

 reniform, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 formed of dentate whitish marks slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of small triangular 

 black spots defined on inner side by whitish lunules ; cilia chequered 

 fuscous and whitish with dark line near base and terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing brown, with indistinct discoidal spot 

 and postmedial line incurved below vein 4 ; cilia chequered 

 ochreous white and brown ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, a short black streak in middle of cell of male, large dis- 

 coidal lunule, curved waved postmedial line, and terminal series of 

 small lunules. 



Hah. Canada ; IT. S. A., Maine, Vermont, New York, Evans Center 

 (G'-ote), 2 c?, 1 5 , Distr. of Columbia, Washington, Pennsylvania, 

 New Brighton {Merrick), 1 S , Minnesota, Dakota, Missouri, Texas 

 and West to the foot of Eocky Mts. Exjp. 38-40 miliim. This is 

 probably a grey variety of A. liamamelis. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 143. 



Like A. ovata, with or without the wdiite dorsal spots.- — H. G. D. 



3659. Acronycta clarescens. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 29.) 



Acronycta clarescens, Guen. Noct. i. p. 54 (1852) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N, Am. 



p. lUl. 

 Acro)iycta pruni, Harris, Ent. Corresp. lSfi9, p. 313; Smith & Dyar, 



Pr.'U.S, Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 123, pi. iv. f. 4; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p 44. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown and 

 black ; 2nd joint of palpi with black band ; tegulse with blackish 



