82 NOCTUID,!:. 



angle of cell to inner margin, a dark streak before it in submeflian 

 fold ; postraedifil line double filled in with whitish, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, slrongly incurved below 

 vein 4 and angled outwards on vein 1, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight 

 pale lunules with dark points beyond them in the interspaces, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at 

 submedian fold; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia 

 grey mixed with fuscous. Hing wing ochreous white tinged with 

 fuscous, a slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line ; a 

 terminal series of black strijB. 



Hah. U.S.A., S. Colorado. Exp. 36 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



3661. Acronycta superans. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 31.) 



Acronycta superans, Guen. Noct. i. p. 53 (1852); Smith & Dyar. Pr. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 119, pi. i. f. 6 ; Smith, Cat. JSfoct. N. Am. p. 43. 



Kead blackish with white band between antennae ; palpi white 

 with black band on 2nd joint ; thorax grey-white, the tegulae 

 with black line near base and some black scales at tips, the patagia 

 with black scales mixed and black streak on outer edge, the 

 metathorax with brown scales mixed ; tibise slightly streaked with 

 black, the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen white irrorated 

 with dark brown, the basal crest red-brown. Fore wing white 

 with slight dark irroration, the base, the antemedial area below 

 the cell, the medial area from cell to vein 1 and a diffused band 

 from costa in and beyond end of cell and from postmedial line 

 to termen between vein 3 and submedian fold black-brown 

 suffused with some yellowish at base on inner margin ; subbasalline 

 represented by double black strige from costa ; antemedial line 

 strong, double, oblique, waved ; orbicular and reniform defined 

 by black-brown, the former with white centre, erect, elliptical, 

 the latter large ; a very oblicjue black striga from costa to reniform 

 and oblique sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line strong, double filled in with white, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and angled outwards 

 at veins 4, 3, then strongly incurved aud angled outwards at 

 vein 1, some white points with dark streaks between them beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line white, excurved below costa and 

 at middle, angled inwards at discal fold to near postmedial line, 

 angled inwards and interi'upted at submedian fold, with dark 

 brown beyond it from below costa to vein 4 ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules with black-brown spots beyond them on the 

 cilia. Hind wing whitish uniformly suffused with reddish brown ; 

 cilia white mixed with some brown ; the underside white, the 

 costal and the terminal areas irrorated with brown and the veins 

 tinged with brown ; a dark streak in cell from base to near the 

 dark discoidal lunule, a crenulate postmedial line excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique, and terminal series of small black lunules. 



