112 NOCrUIDiR. 



with the 2nd joint mostly black ; frons with blackish bar ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen grey irroraled with fuscous and 

 dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing white thickly irrorated 

 with black and tinged in parts with brown ; sabbasal line repre- 

 sented bj^ slight black striae from costa and cell ; a rather diffused 

 black streak in submedian fold from base to just beyond the ante- 

 medial line giving off a slight spur below at middle ; antemedial 

 line rather diffused and ill-defined, double, the two parts widely 

 separated at costa, oblique, waved ; orbicular whitish defined by 

 black and with slight dark centre, rather small, round with black 

 streak from it to middle of reniform, which is incompletely defined 

 by black and with some black on inner side of centre ; an oblique 

 black bar from costa to reniform and indistinct oblique line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postraedial line double filled 

 in with whiiish, the inner line indistinct except below vein 3, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved and angled outwards at vein 1, some black points beyond 

 it on costa, crossed by slight black streaks in discal and submedian 

 folds from just before it to subterminal line and with slight brown 

 suffusion beyond it especially in submedian interspace ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of slight diffused whitish lunules ; a 

 terminal series of small triangular black spots with slight dark 

 streaks from them intersecting the cilia, which have a slight brown 

 line through them. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal area 

 w ith slight dark streaks ; a terminal series of blackish points with 

 slight dark streaks from them intersecting the cilia ; the underside 

 with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a slight blackish 

 discoidal spot. 



Hah. Asia. Minor, 1 S , Pontus, Bithynia, Lydia. E.vp. 40 

 millim. 



Larva. Led. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, ix. p. 63, pi. 3. f. 7. 



Pearl-grey with black dorsal fascia and subdorsal white stripes ; 

 hairs long, grey-white. Food-plant : Pear. 5. 



3692. Acronycta maxima. (Plate CXXV. fig. 21.) 



Tricena maxima, M.oore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 333; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 240. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark iron-brown ; 2nd joint 

 of palpi blackish at tips : frons black at sides ; basal joint of 

 antennae black behind ; tegulae dark brown at base ; shoulders with 

 black stripes with white streaks above them ; outer edges of patagia 

 and base of upper edges with black streaks ; tibiae with slight black 

 streaks, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen dorsally silky 

 brown, ventrally whitish. Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated 

 with iron-brown ; subbasal line represented by diffused double 

 dark striae from costa ; a sinuous black streak in submedian fold 

 from base to just beyond antemedial line, giving off slight spurs 

 below at middle, above at inner antemedial line and above and 



