ACRONYCTA. 115 



costal and inner areas with slight dark irroration, a black discoidal 

 lunula, small postmedial spots on costa and in submedian fold, and 

 terminal series of points. 



2 . Hind wing more suffused with brown. 



Hub. E. SrBKKiA, Amurlaud, 1 $ , Ussuri ; J AVAi>i,Tokio (Maries), 

 2 J , Oiwake (Pn/er), 1 J , Yokohama {Jonas, Fri/er), 4 c? , 2 J ; 

 China, Foo-chow (de la Touche), 1 5 . Exp. 60-66 millim, 



3695. Acronycta rubiginosa. 



Acronycta rubiginosa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 178 (1862) ; 



Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 30. 

 Trmna denticulata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 408 ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. 



vii. p. 45, pi. 125. f. 8 : Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 242. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black ; palpi with 

 black spot on 2nd joint near extremity ; Irons with lateral black 

 bars ; patagia with black streaks on outer edge ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen whitish suffused and irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing grey almost wholly suffused with brown and irrorated 

 with black, the terminal area paler ; a diffused black fascia in 

 submedian fold from base to termeu ; subbasal line represented by 

 double oblique black striae from costa and single striga from cell ; 

 antemedial line hardly traceable, double, oblique, waved, with 

 double blackish points on costa, vein 1 and inner margin ; orbicular 

 and reniform incompletely defined by black, the former whitish, 

 oblique elliptical, the latter very indistinctly defined ; a very 

 oblique medial dark shade from costa to lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial line double filled in with whitish in parts, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 3 and angled 

 outwards on vein 1 ; some whitish points with slight blackish 

 marks between them beyond it on costa and a brown shade from 

 it to termen at middle ; small dentate subterminal blackish murks 

 in the interspaces from below costa to vein 4 ; a terminal series of 

 small triangular black spots with dark streaks from them intersecting 

 the cilia. Hind wing white ; the veins tinged with brown ; a 

 series of small blackish terminal spots with blackish marks beyond 

 them on the cilia, which are mixed with brown ; the underside with 

 the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a brownish patch 

 on middle of costa, slight discoidal spot and traces of a postmedial line 

 with blackish spot on costa, waved to vein 4, then oblique. 



Hah. Kashmir, Scinde Valley {Leech), 1 $ ; Punjab, Simla 

 {Harford), 1 S -, Dharmsala {Hocking), 2 j, 2 § type denticulata ; 

 iJoRNEo, Sarawak {Wallace), typef in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 42- 

 44 millim. 



3696. Acronycta taurica. (Plate CXXV. fig. 23.) 



Acronicta taurica, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 132 (1901). 



2 . Head and thorax grej-white mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 2nd joint of palpi with black baud ; frons black at sides : antennae 



