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Spain, Catalonia ; N. Italy; Algeria; Scandinavia; S.Russia; 

 Bulgaria ; Armenia ; E. Turkestan, Karghalik ; Syria ; E. Siberia, 

 Amurland, Ussuri. Exp. 40-46 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. ]41 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 247, pi. 122. f. 1. 



Black ; a bi'oad white dorsal stripe including a series of orange 

 spots ; lateral series of reddish marks and white tubercles ; spiracular 

 line broad, whitish ; somites 4 and II with dorsal prominences, the 

 4th with tuft of black hair ; numerous long blackish, whitish, and 

 yellowish hairs ; head black. Food-plants : Hawthorn, Oak, Birch, 

 &c. 8-10. 



3688. Acronycta incretata, n. n. 



Acronyda incrnta, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 78 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 

 iii. p. 12, pi. 44. f. o (1879), nee Morr. 1874; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 132. 



cS . Head and thorax greyish suffused with purplish brown ; 2nd 

 joint of palpi with black band ; frons black at sides ; antennae with 

 the basal joint black behind ; shoulders and outer edges of patagia 

 with black stripes ; tibiae with black stripes ; abdomen greyish 

 dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing greyish suffused with 

 purplish brown ; subbasal line represented by double black striae 

 from costa ; a black streak in submedian fold from base to just 

 beyond antemedial line, giving off slight spurs above near base and 

 below at middle and forking above and below on antemedial line, 

 which is double, indistinct, oblique, waved ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former open above, oblique elliptical, with 

 curved black streak from it extending into the reniform, which is 

 constricted at middle and produced at upper and lower extremities ; 

 an oblique black striga from middle ot' costa to reniform ; post- 

 medial line black defined by pale brown on inner side, double at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then waved, angled outwards at 

 veins 4, 3, then incurved and excurved at vein 1, crossed by a fine 

 streak in discal fold and stronger streak in submedian fold from well 

 before it to termen, some slight pale marks beyond it on costa ; a 

 series of slight black streaks from just before termen intersecting 

 the cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged 

 with brown ; a terminal series of slight dark points ; the underside 

 white, the costal area tinged and irrorated with brown, a black 

 discoidal spot, waved postmedial line with blackish spot on costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, a terminal series of small dark 

 lunules. 



5 . Hind wing wholly suffused with brown, an indistinct sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Bab. Japan, Yokohama (Jonas, Pri/er), 2 J , 4 $ type ; Corea, 

 Gensan (Leech), 1 cJ ; W. China, Wa-ssu-kow, 1 $ . Exp. 45-54 

 millira. 



