ACEONYCTA. 89 



median fold in which there is a short black streak before it ; 

 antemedial line double, with short black streaks on each line on the 

 veins, the inner line angled inwards below the cell and the outer 

 with small black spot on it ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 fuscous and with slight dark centres, the former round ; postmedial 

 line double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, in- 

 curved belov^ vein '6, with brown suffusion beyond it to near termen 

 between veins 6 and 4 and from vein .3 to submedian fold, and 

 some white points on costa with dark maiks between them ; sub- 

 terminal line absent; a terminal series of small round black spots; 

 cilia with a slight black line near tips. Hind wing greyish suffused 

 with brown and with terminal seiies of t-lighi; black striae; cilia 

 white with a slight brown line through them ; the underside white 

 tinged in parts with biown, a large black discoidal lunule and 

 rather diffused, curved, v, aved brown postmedial line. 



Bab. Canada ; U.S.A., Massachusetts (Fackord), 1 J , New 

 York, Schenectady (Linther), 1 cJ , Evans Center (Grote), 1 J , 1 5 , 

 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1 $ type, Virginia. Exj^. 30-34 

 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 14fi. 



Head red-biown. Body whitish, each segment with live purple- 

 brown transverse bands dorsally, the sides and feet pale. Food- 

 plant : Maple.— H. G. D. 



3670. Acrorycta caesarea. (Plate CXXV. fig. 7.) 

 Acronycta casarea, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent, Sec. xiii. p. ]91 (1906). 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown with au 

 olive tinge ; frons with black bar ; patagia with dark edges ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with while ; abdomen fuscous brown with pale 

 segmental linis, the ventral sur.ace whitish irrorated with brown. 

 Pore wing whitish thickly irrorated and sufi'used with fuscous 

 brown with an olive tinge, the medial area slightly, paler ; subbasal 

 line blackish, double, waved, from cosla to submedian fold in which 

 there is a slight black streak Irom it to outer edge of antemedial 

 line, which is double, oblique, waved, angled inw^aids in submedian 

 fold; orbicular and renitbrra small, white irrorated with brown and 

 defined by blackish, the former round ; medial line represented by 

 an oblique bar from costa and oblique sinuous line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 w^hitish, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4, some alternating white and dark points beyond it on 

 cohta ; subteiminal line absent ; a terminal series of black points 

 defined on inner side hy slight whitish lunules ; cilia chequered 

 fuscous brown and white and with dark line through them. Hind 

 wing greyish uniformly suffused with brown ; cilia white with a 

 dark line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal area and 

 terminal area to vein 3 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, 



