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*3675. Acronycta albistigma. (Plate CXXV. fig. 12.) - 



Acronycta cdhistigma, South, ined. • 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; palpi with the 

 1st and 2nd joints black above; antennae with the basal joint black 

 at extremity behind ; teguliie with faint dark band before the tips 

 which are whitish ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous whirish tinged withbrowr,. Fore wing grey-white thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 striae from costa and cell, the latter filled in with white ; anteraedial 

 line rather indistinct, double, oblique, waved, angled inwards on 

 vein 1 ; orbicular pure white defined at sides by black and with 

 some brown scales in centre, rather oblicjue elliptical ; reniform 

 defined at sides by black and white points ; medial line represented 

 by a diffused oblique fuscous bar from costa and an indistinct 

 oblique dentate line from lower angle of cell to iriner margin ; 

 postmedial line double, the inner line indistinct, filled in by white 

 lunules between veins 7 and 4 and 3 and 1, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate, bent inwards below vein 4 and ending on inner 

 margin near tornus, some dark suffusion bevond it between veins 8 

 and 4 and below vein 2, and some white points on costa ; a waved 

 white subterminal line ; a series of small black spots on termen 

 and base of cilia defined by whitish lunules on inner side. Hind 

 wing white, the basal area figged with browni'^h yellow, the veins 

 and terminal area suffused wnth brown ; an indistinct curved post- 

 medial line ; cilia ochreous white with a series of fuscous spots ; the 

 underside white w'ith slight dark spot in middle of cell, blackish 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial line maculate and excurved to 

 vein 5, then oblique. 



JJah. Japan, type t J in Coll. Wileman. Exjj. 50 millim. 



3676. Acronycta rumicis. 



Noctua rumicis, Linn. Syat. Nat. ed. x. p. 516 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 117. ff. 7-9; Hiibn. Eur. Sohniett., JN'oct. f. 9; Frr. Neiie Beitr. 



pi. 513; Stepli. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. iii. p. 42; Diip. Lep. Fr ti. 



p. 241, pi. 88. f. 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 133. 

 Acronycta. salicis, Cm-t. Brit. Etit. v. pi. 136 (1829). 

 Acronycta diffusa, Wlk. xi. 708 (1857). 

 Acronycta indica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 47 ; HnqDsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 203, & iv. p. 509. 

 Acronycta turanica,iitn.\iA. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 65; id. Eom. Mem. 



V. pi. 8. f. 5. 

 Acronycta alnoides, Geest, Allg. Zeit. Ent. viii. p. 310 (1903). 



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

 of palpi with black band ; frons with black bar ; tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with ochreous and 

 brown, the basal crest mixed with black. Fore wing white very 

 thickly irrorated with brown, the inner and postmedial areas 

 suffused with brown ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 striae from costa and single striga from cell with black streak from 



