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the tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen daik brown. 

 Fore wing grey tinged and irrorated with brown ; subbasal line 

 represented by double oblique striae from costa and single striga 

 from cell; a strong black-brown streak from base below the cell 

 defined by whi'e above, slightly forked at middle below and forked 

 at antemedial line, which is double, angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique and slightly sinuous ; orbicular small, round, hardly 

 defined except on outer side; reniforra an indistinctly defined 

 narrow lunule with oblique black striga on lower inner edge ; 

 medial line oblique from costa to reniform, indistinct and sinuous 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown 

 defined by whitish on inner side, double at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4. slightly 

 angled at veins 4, 8, then incurved and angled outwards at vein 1, 

 some white points beyond it on costa, with a slight black streak 

 from it to subterminal line in discal fold and stronger streak from 

 just before it to termen in submedian fold : subterminal line 

 represented by a series of whitish lunules slightly incur\ed at discal 

 fold and more strongly below vein 3 ; cilia whitish intersected by 

 slight dark streaks from just before termen and with dark line 

 through them. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; cilia' 

 white with slight dark line through them and some dark points at 

 tips ; the underside whitish tinged with brown, a discoidal spot, 

 indistinct curved postmedial line, and terminal series of points and 

 strise. 



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3703. Acronycta revellata. (Plate CXXV. fig. 28.) 



Acronycta revellata, Smith, Ent. News Philad. viii. p. 150 (1897); Smith 

 & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mas. xxi. p. 112; Uyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. 

 p. 102. 



c? . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with black ; palpi white 

 at base and with black band on 2nd joint; frons whitish at middle ; 

 shoulders v\ ith blackish streaks ; tibial slightly streaked with black, 

 the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-white dorsally suffused 

 with brown. Pore wing grey-white suffused with brown and 

 irrorated wdth fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a diffused 

 black striga from costa ; a black streak defined by whitish above 

 below submedian fold from base to just beyocd antemedial line, 

 which is hardly traceable, double, very oblique; orbicular and reni- 

 form whitish defined by black and with brownish centres, the 

 former round, the latter produced at upper and lower extremities, 

 some slight dark suffusion between them extending to costa ; post- 

 medial line blackish slightly defined by whitish on inner side, bent 

 outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, angled out- 

 wards at veins 4, 3, then strongly incurved, a strong black streak 

 in submedian fold from well before it to termen and some white 



