90 NOCTuirt^.. 



bar at middle of costa, diffused sinuous postmedial line, and terminal 

 series of black striaj. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Jersey, Essex Co. Park, Kansas (>Snow), 2 2 • 

 E.cp. 2Q-30 niillim. 



3671. Acronycta impleta. (Plate CXXV. fig. 8.) 



Acronycta impleta, Wlk. ix. 57 (185(i) ; Smith, Cat. IS'oet. JV. Am. p. 41. 

 Acroiiycia luieicoina, Gi'ole & Kob. 'irans. Am. Jint. ISoc. iii. p. 179, pi. '1. 



f. 8a (1870) ; Smith & Dy..r, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mu,s. xxi. p. 152, pi. i. f. 6; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. JM. Am. p. 42. 



Head and thorax grey largely mixed with browu ; palpi white 

 with black band on 2nd joint ; tegula3 and patagia edged with 

 browu; shoulders streaked with black; tibiae slightly streaked 

 with black, the mid tibiae with black spot at base, the tarsi banded 

 with fuscous ; abdomen red-brown. I'ore wing grey almost wholly 

 suffused and irrorated with brown ; subbasal line represented by 

 double black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line double, 

 oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, their centres suffused with brown, the former 

 round, the latter with the black on outer edge reduced to points ; 

 medial line minutely waved, very oblique from costa to reniform, 

 incurved below the cell ; postmedial line double, the inner line 

 indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 excurved to vein 3, then incurved, filled in with whitish lunules, 

 the one below subniedian lold more prominent, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; a subterminal series ot whitish spots, slightly 

 excurved at vein 7 snd incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal series 

 of small black spots ; cilia with a slight dark line through them. 

 Hind wing whitish uniformly suflfused with red-brown ; cilia white ; 

 the underside white faintly tinged with red-brown, a slight dis- 

 coidal spot and traces of postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Maine, New York, 3 S , Distr. of 

 Columbia, Illinois, Georgia, Kansas {Snow), 1 J , 1 $ ? Texas, 

 ? California ; hab. ign. 1 $ type. Exp. 40-48 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Miis. xxi. p. 153, pi. vi. f. 16. 



Head shining black, body black with piile dots ; a reddish sub- 

 stigmatal band ; narrow broken dorsal and subdorsal lines ; warts 

 large ; the hairs in dense tufts, long, fine ; dense pale brown tufts 

 subdorsally on joints 3 to 6, 12 and 13 ; four dense black ttifts on 

 joint 5 ; two short black pencils on joint 12. Food-plants: Frunus, 

 Pojjvlus. &c. 



3672. Acronycta illita. (Plate CXXV. fig. 9.) 



Acronycta illita. Smith, Ent. News Philad. viii. p. 152 (1897); Smith & 

 Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 151, pi. xi. f. 12: Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. 

 Am. p. 104. 



$. Head and thorax black mixed with grey-Avhite ; frons with 

 blaijk bar ; tarsi banded black and white ; abdotuen grey irrorated 



