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lines at middle and near tips ; patagia edged with black, tarsi 

 llack ringed with white; abdomen whitish suffused with reddish 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing grey-white thickly 

 irrorated wich fuscous brown, the basal area suffused with fuscous 

 to the outer anteinedial line leaving the area between the subbasal 

 and antemedial lines pale to the streak in submedian fold ; subbasal 

 line represented by double black striae from costa and single striga 

 from cell, with a black streak beyond it in submedian fold to inner 

 antemedial line ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved, excurved in 

 cell, the inner line strong, black ; orbicular and reniform white 

 defined by black except above, their centres suffused with brown, 

 the former oblique elliptical ; medial line oblique from costa to 

 reniform, dentate from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with whitish, the outer line black, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, below vein 4 bent 

 inwards to lower extremity of reniform and erect to inner margin, 

 some white points bej^ond it on costa with black striae between 

 them ; subterminal line white with lunulate blackish band on its 

 outer side, dentate, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; 

 a terminal series of triangular black spots ; cilia white with a 

 black line through them. Hind wing whitish uniformly suffused 

 with red-brown ; cilia white ; the underside white, the costal 

 and terminal areas slightly irrorated with black, a slight black 

 streak in middle of cell, black discoidal lunule, minutely waved 

 postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and terminal 

 series of small black lunules. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing with ferruginous centre to reniform. 



Hah. Canada, Nova Scotia {Redman) 1 J ; U.S.A., Eastern 

 States, New York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 c? , 7 $ ; Trenton Falls 

 (Douhh/a;/), 2 ? type. E.vp. 40-42 milHm. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mns. xxi. p. r2.'i, pi. vii. fF. 22-23. 



Head pale, heavily dotted with black over vertex. Body green 

 or red, with a purple-brown dorsal stripe that widens on joints 

 7-10 ; a white U-shaped edge to the band on joints 2 and 3 ; 

 tubercles small, dark, with several obscure hairs. Eood-plants : 

 Apple, Cherry, &c.— H. G. D. 



*3660. Acronycta minella. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 30.) 



Jpafela minella, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 41 (1898) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 N. Am. p. 102. 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; abdomen dark 

 grey. Pore wing whitish tinged with ochreous and almost 

 uniformly irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; a faint black streak 

 below base of cell ; subbasal line double, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double tilled in with whitish, oblique, dentate, 

 strongly angled outwards below costa ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former round ; medial line indistinct, oblique 

 from costa to reniform, inwardly oblique and sinuous from lower 



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