ACROXYCTA. 105 



3684. Acronycta nianitoba. (Plate CXXV. fig. 19.) 



Acrovycta manitoha. Smith, Ent. News Phiiad. viii. p. 150 (1897) ; Smith 

 & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 90, pi. xii. f. 1 ; Dyur, Oat. Lep. 

 N. Atu. p. 101. 



J . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown and fuscous ; 

 palpi white at base, the 2nd joint with black band ; shoulders and 

 outer edges of patagia with black streaks ; tibiae streaked with 

 black, the tarsi banded with black above; abdomen greyish 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey-white thickly iiTorated 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by black strife from costa 

 and cell ; a strong black streak in submedian fold from base to 

 outer edge of antemedial line defined by a fine white streak above ; 

 antemedial line double, oblique, waved, angled outwards below 

 costa and bent inwards to inner margin ; orbicular rather incom- 

 pletely defined by black, acute at lower extremity and with strong 

 black streak from it to renit'orm, which is defined by black ou 

 inner side, ill-defined on outer and with black points at upper and 

 lower extremities, its centre tinged with fuscous ; a diffused oblique 

 dark striga from costa to reniform and faint sinuous line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin at antemedial line : postmedial line 

 black defined by white on inner side, double at costa and below 

 vein 2, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then dentate 

 and strongly incurved, Avith black streak in discal fold from it to 

 near termen, and diffused streak in submedian fold from just before 

 it to termen ; an indistinct w aved whitish subterminal line, excurved 

 at vein 7, with faint dark streaks from it to the terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing white, the veins tinged with brown, 

 the terminal area irrorated with brown ; the underside with the 

 costal area slightly irrorated with black, a black discoidal lunule, 

 rather diffused postmedial line oblique to vein 4 then incurved, and 

 terminal series of black striae. 



5 . Hind wing more suffused with brown, especially on terminal 

 area. 



Bah. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1 c? , Aweme(Cm?cZ/e), ] S , 

 1 5 , Cartwright {Herdh.)^ 2 cJ , 1 $ ; U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood 

 Springs. Exp. 44 millim. 



3685. Acronycta furcifera, (Plate CXXV. fig. 20.) 



Acronycta furcifera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 44 (1852) ; Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 85, pi. ii. f. 13 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. .p. 37. 



Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with grey ; 2nd 

 joint of palpi with black band ; shoulders and outer edges of patagia 

 with black streaks ; tibiae streaked with black, the tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen reddish brown, the basal crest 

 greyish, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore 

 wing dark reddish brown irrorated with grey-w^hite; subbasal line 

 represented by slight dark marks below costa and cell ; a strong 



