106 NOCTL'ID.E. 



sinuous black streak in subbasal fold from base to outer edge 

 of antemedial line, which is double, oblique, waved, angled out- 

 wards below costa and bent inwards to inner margin ; orbicular 

 Avhitish defined bj' black, oblique, acute at lower extremity and 

 with black streak from it to rcniform, which is defined by black on 

 inner side, slightly defined on outer; a diffused dark medial line, 

 oblique from costa to renit'orm, inwardly oblique and sinuous from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin at antemedial line ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with whitish, the outer line black, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 and angled outwards on vein 1, with slight black streak 

 from it to termen in discal fold and strong streak in submedian 

 fold ; an indistinct waved whitish subterminal line, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 ; the interspaces of terminal area with short black 

 streaks ; cilia chequered whitish and brown with fine black line 

 through them. Hind wing w^hitish suffused with reddish brown ; 

 a terminal series of small blackish spots : the underside whitish 

 tinged and irrorated with red-brown, a slight dark streak in base 

 of cell, a blackish discoidal spot and spot on middle of costa, 

 a diffused somewhat maculate postmedial line incurved below 

 vein 4, and terminal series of small black spots. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Maine, Kittery Point, New York, 1 c? , 

 1 5 1 New Jersey, Union Co., Distr. of Columbia, Washington, 

 Illinois, Carbondale, Florida. Exp. 44-46 millim. 



Lama. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 86, pi. vi. f. 10. 



Black, the warts, except 1, pale brown with apical hair and. 

 minute rosette of reddish hairs, the brownish setae similar to the 

 rather numerous secondary hairs ; a bright red dorsal stripe on 

 somites 3 to 11, narrowly edged with velvety black interrupted at 

 the incisures ; somite 12 dorsally black ; head bilobed, shining 

 black with a red patch at apex of each lobe, slightly shagreened, 

 the coarse setae pale ; prolegs pale. Food-plants : AYild Cherry, 

 Fire Cherry, and Choke Cherry. 



3686. Acronycta psi. 



Noctiiapsi, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 514 (17o8) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 115. 



if. 1-2; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 218, pi. 87. f. 1; Frr. Neiie Beitr. 



pi. 58 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haii.st. iii. p. 39 ; Caland, Tijd. v. Ent. 



xxxix. pi. 8. fig. 3; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 132. 

 Acronycta bivirgce, Tutt, Entoni. 1888, p 50. 

 Acronycta suffusa, Tntt, Entoin. lo^8, p 50. 

 Acronicta altaica, Slaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 132 (1901). 



(^ . Head and thorax white tinged with psile brown ; palpi with 

 black band on 2nd joint ; antennae with the basal joint black behind ; 

 shoulders and outer edges of patagia with black streaks ; tibite 

 streaked with black; abdomen white dorsally irrorated with fuscous, 

 ventrally tinged with pale brown. Fore wing white thickly irrorated 

 with pale brown ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from 

 costa ; a black streak in submedian lold from base to just beyond 



