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margin ; orbicular and reuiform defined by black, the former 

 small, oblique elliptical, the latter with oblique black striga in 

 centre ; a diffused oblique blackish bar trom costa to reniform and 

 a slight line from lower angle of cell, incurved to vein 1 where it is 

 angled outwards, then inwards above inner margin ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, escurved to vein 3, then incurved aud angled outwards on 

 vein 1, crossed by a slight black streak in submedian fold from 

 medial to subterminal line, the veins beyond it with slight dark 

 streaks, some white points on costa ; a series of small black spots 

 on termen and base of cilia, which have a slight dark line through 

 them. Hind wing pure white, with postmedial series of minute 

 dark streaks on the veins and fine terminal line ; the underside with 

 the costal area slighfciy irrorated with brown, a small blackish 

 discoidal spot, curved postmedial series of minute black streaks on 

 the veins, and terminal series of striae. 



2 . Hind wing with the veins strongly streaked with black. 



Ab. 1. candelisqua. Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with 

 brown ; abdomen and terminal area of hind wing tinged with 

 brown. 



Ah. 2. jiidcea. Paler; fore wing greyish white. — Palestine. 



Hab. iJpaxAiN, Leech Coll. ; Fkanck, Sand Coll. ; Gkkmany, Zeller 

 and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; 

 Spain ; Ltaly ; Greece ; Norway, Frey Coll. ; Eussia, Lithonia, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia ; Palestine ; 

 W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Issyk Kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi, 

 Kashgar. Kvp. 40-48 mi Him. 



Larva. Meyr, Brit. Lep. p. 142; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 231. pi. 120. 

 f. 2. 



Yellow clothed with long yellow hair, the 4th, 6th, 7th, and 

 8th somites with dorsal tufts of red hair ; a dorsal series of black- 

 edged white diamond-shaped marks ; warts brown ; stigmata black ; 

 head yellow marked with black. Food-plants : Horse-chestnut, 

 Sycamore, Oak, &c. 7-9. 



3698. Acronycta major. 



Acronycta major, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 48, pi. 5. f. 7 (1868) ; Oberth. Et. 



Ent. V. p. 69, pi. 7. f. 5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. liil . 

 Tri(Bna anmdina, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 19. 



Head and thorax grey-white slightly mixed with brown ; 2nd 

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

 of antennae black behind ; shoulders and outer edges of patagia 

 with black stripes ; tibiae streaked with black : abdomen grey- 

 white, the extremity irrorated with fuscous, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with pale brown ; 

 siibbasal line represented by an oblique black striga from costa : 

 a sinuous black streak in submedian fold from base to outer ante- 

 medial line, giving off slight spurs above and below at antemedial 

 line, the line very indistinct, double, oblique, waved, the two lines 



