ACKOXrCTA. Ill 



3G90. Acronycta leucocuspis. 



Acronycta leucocuspis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 78 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. 

 B. M. iii. p. 12, pi. 44. f. 2. 



Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; 2nd joint of palpi 

 with black band ; Irons black at sides ; antennae with the basal 

 joint black behind at extremity ; shoulders and outer edges of 

 patagiawith black stripes; tegulge with black medial stripes ; tibiae 

 with black streaks, the tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen 

 greyish tinged with brown and irrorated with black. Fore wing 

 grey-white thickly irrorated with brown ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by double black striae from costa ; a black streak in sub- 

 median fold from base to antemedial line, giving off slight spurs 

 above near base and below at middle and forking above and below 

 at antemedial line, which is double, oblique, irregularly waved, 

 the lines rather widely separated towards costa : orbicular white 

 defined by black, small, round, with black streak from it to 

 reniform, which has a brown centre and whitish annulus defined by 

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

 lower extremities ; an oblique diffused blackish bar from costa to 

 reniform and indistinct oblique 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, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, slightly angled outwards at 

 veins 4, 3, then incurved, crossed by a slight black streak in discal 

 fold from well before it to subterminal line and a stronger 

 streak in submedian fold extending to termeii, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; the terminal area with slight dark streaks on 

 the veiijs ; subterminal line represented by a series of whitish 

 lunules diffused towards termen ; a terminal series of small black 

 spots ; cilia brown and white at base, white at t^ips and with 

 slight dark line through them. Hind wing white, the veins 

 brown ; an indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; the terminal area 

 suffused with brown from apex to vein 2 ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark striae ; cilia mixed with brown at base ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with black, a sliglit dark streak in cell, 

 black discoidal spot, traces of a waved }iostniedial line and terminal 

 series of small blackish lunules. 



Ab. 1. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing browner; hind wing 

 wholly suffused with brown. 



Hah. Japan, Oiwake {Prycr), 1 c? , Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 

 3 S type, Fushiki (LeecJi), 1 $ ; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 2 J , 

 1 2 ; Js^ China, 1 $ . E.vp. 40-46 millim. 



3691. Acronycta orientalis 



■lis, Mann, Wien. ent. Mon. 18f 

 p. pal. p. 132. 



(S . Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown; palpi 



Acronycta orienfalis, Mann, Wien. ent. Mon. 1862, p, 370, pi. 3. f . 4 ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 132. 



