ACEOI^YCTA. 87 



area RufFiised with brown from apex to vein 2 ; a terminal series 

 of dark points ; cilia white mixed with brown; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, the veins of 

 terminal area streaked with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, 

 curved waved postmedial line with blackish spot at costa and 

 slight dark streaks on the veins and terminal seiies of small Iiinules. 



Hub. Canada; U.S.A., Mnssachusetts, New York, Florida {DouUe- 

 daif), 1 c?, Missouri, St. Louis, Texas, 2 $, West to the llocky 

 Mts. ; Mexico, Jalapa (fJoege), 1 ^ type dolens, Godman-Salviu 

 Coll. Kvp. 40-46 niillim. 



Larva. Smith & By.u; Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 128, pi. v. ff. 1, 2. 



Head brown, mottled with darker on the face. Body robust, 

 brown, with red-brown dorsal and lateral stripes ; hairs of 

 tuhercle ii. singl.3, long, black, those of joints 3-7 slightly spatulate. 

 Food-plant: Oak. 



3667. Acronycta hamamelis. (Plate CXXV. fig. 4.) 



Acranycta hamamelis, Guen. JS'oct. i. p. 52 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 44. 



Head and thorax grey largely mixed with brown and black ; 

 palpi whitish at base and with black band on 2nd joint ; frons 

 with black bar; tegulse with blackish line near base ; tibiae streaked 

 with black, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-brown 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous and with dorsal series of slight dark 

 tufts of hair, the basal crest with some white. Fore wing grey- 

 white almost wholly sufiused with fuscous brown and thickly 

 irrorated with black; subbasal line represented by double black 

 striae from costa ; antemedial line double, minutely waved, oblique ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former with brown 

 centre and whitish annulus, round, the lalter with its centre 

 sufiused with brown and slight pale annulus ; an indistinct curved 

 medial line ; postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 3 to lower edge 

 of reniform, some pale points beyond it on costa ; an indistinct 

 dentate whitish subterminal line angled inwards in submedian fold ; 

 a terminal series of small triangular black spots defined on inner 

 side by slight whitish lunules ; cilia whitish with fine waved 

 blackish line near base and terminal series of points. Hind wing 

 brown with traces of discoidal spot and sinuoits postmedial line ; 

 cilia whitish with brown line through them ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, a slight dark streak in middle of cell of male, 

 a black discoidal lunule, curved waved postmediaUine, and terminal 

 series of small black lunules. 



Hah. U.S.A. (Douhledai/), 1 J, co-type, Pennsylvania, 1 5, 

 Grote Coll., Georgia, Virginia. E,vp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Gueu. Noct. i. p. 52. 



Dorsal area yellowish grey, the ventral area ferruginous red, the 



