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below near estremit}' ; antemedial line double, dark, rather diffused, 

 the two lines widely separated on costal half, oblique, waved, bent 

 inwards to inner margin, the outer line angled outwards below 

 costa and just below median nervure ; orbicular whitish defined by- 

 black, more distinctly on outer aide, small, somewhat elongate 

 elliptical ; reniform large, defined by black, with black lunule on 

 inner edge of centre with diffused brown mark beyond it ; a 

 diffused oblique brown striga from costa to reniform and traces of 

 an oblique sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin at 

 antemedial line ; postmedial line double filled in with white, bent 

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

 incurved, crossed by a short black streak in discal fold from just 

 before it and a longer streak in submediHn fold from well before it, 

 some brown suffusion beyond it and some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line absent ; a series of small black spots on termeu 

 and base of cilia, which are white, and double spot at submedian 

 fold. Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish brown, the terminal 

 area darker ; a diffused brown postmedial line excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved and defined by whitish on outer side ; a series of 

 small blackish spots on termeu and base of cilia which are white ; 

 the underside white slightly irrorated with brown, a large black 

 discoidal spot, crenulate postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique, traces of a diffused subterminal band and terminal series 

 of points. 



Hab. Punjab, Murree {Powell, Harford), 2 cJ , 3 $ , type ; Assam, 

 Khasis ; Bdema, Rangoon. Exp. S 64, $ 72 millim. 



3693. Acronycta iria. (Plate CXXV. fig. 22.) 



Acronycta iria, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 113 (1899). 



S . Head and thorax; grey suffused with pale red-brown ; palpi 

 white, the 2nd joint with black band ; antennje with the basal 

 joint black behind at tips ; shoulders with black streaks ; tibiae 

 streaked with black ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing whitish suffused and irrorated with pale red-brown • 

 subbasal line represented by double oblique dark striae from costa ; 

 a sinuous black streak in submedian fold from base to antemedial 

 line where it forks, giving off a slight spur below at middle ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double, the lines very widely separated on 

 costal half, oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 and excurved 

 above inner margin, the outer line angled outwards below costa ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by fuscous, the former whitish with 

 slight rufous centre, rather oblique elliptical, with a black streak 

 from it extending into the reniform which has a rufous centre : a 

 diffused oblique fuscous line from costa to reniform and traces of 

 an oblique sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin 

 at antemedial line ; postmedial line double, black filled in with 

 white, the inner line incomplete, bent outwards below costa, then 



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