84 noctttiDjE. 



Kocky Mts., New York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 c? , 2 2 t.ype, 

 LMstr. of Columbia, Washington, Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Wis- 

 consin, Colorado, Garfield Co. Exp. 46 rriillim. 



Larva. Smith & Dynr, Pr. U.S. Nat. Miis. xxi. p. 118. 



Head brownish, dotted with red and black over the face. Body 

 green, a darker lateral shade, the dorsum paler and containing 

 a transverse blackish j atch on joints 5, 8, 9, and 12, the latter 

 small ; hairs fine, rather long, several from each tubercle. Pood- 

 plant : Witch hazel (Hammnelis). — H. G. D. 



3663. Acronycta noctivaga. (Plate CXXV. fig. 1.) 



Acron7/cta noctivaga, Grrote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. ii. p. 437, pi. ix. f. 3 

 (1864); Smith & Djar, Pr. U.S. ^nt. Miis. xxi. p. 156, pi. i. f. 11 ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N.'Am. p. 42. 



Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown ; 2nd joint of 

 palpi with black band ; shoulders with blackish streaks ; tibiae 

 banded with blackish ; abdomen whitish iri'orated with fuscous 

 and dorsally suffused with brown, the basal crest whitish with 

 black tip. Fore wing white thickly irrorated with black-brown, 

 the basal area suffused with black-brown to antemedial line leaving 

 some yellowish white on base of inner margin, and diffused black- 

 brown bands beyond the medial and postmedial lines ; subbasal 

 line represented by double black striae from costa and cell filled 

 in with white ; antemedial line double filled in with white, 

 strongly waved, oblique ; the medial area with black-brown fascia 

 above vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former 

 very small, round, the latter filled in with brown ; a diflfused 

 somewhat dentate medial line oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with white, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved 

 below vein 3 and angled outwards on vein 1, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterrainal line represented by a series of 

 dentate whitish marks, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 inwards at discal and submedian folds, with blackish streaks in 

 the interspaces from it to the terminal series of black points with 

 blackish streaks from them intersecting the cilia. Hind wing 

 whitish uniformly suffused with reddish brown ; cilia whitish at 

 tips; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a blackish discoidal spot. 



Bab. Canada (JVornuon), 1 J, Ontario, Orillia (BusJi), ] 5; 

 U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 (5, 

 4 5 , Distr, of Columbia, Washington, Illinois, Oregon, Portland, 

 Colorado, New Mexico. E,rj>. 38-40 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 157, pi. viii. ff. 27, 28. 



Head black. Body blackish with a faint red subventral band ; 

 warts large, the hairs short, dense, bristly, black mixed with some 

 soft greyish ones. Eood-plants : low bushes. — H. G. D. 



