126 NOCTTTID^. 



on costa ; the veins of termiual area with slight dark streaks ; traces 

 of a whiti>>h siibtermiiial line excurved below vein 7 and at uiiddle, 

 then incurved ; a terminal series of black points with brown marks 

 beyond them on the cilia. Hind wing whitish uniformly suffused 

 with fuscous and tinged with rufous ; cilia white with a dark line 

 near tips towards apex ; the underside white irrorated with brown 

 especially on terminal area, a black streak in cell from base to 

 near the large black discoidal spot, a minutely waved postmedial line 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, traces of a diffused subterminal 

 band and a terminal series of black points. 



Hah, Canada, Ottawa (Fletcher, Young), 2 (^ , 2 5 , Ontario, 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., Maine, New York (Doubledav), 1 $ , Evans Center (Grote), 

 3 c? , 1 2 , Rochester, Kendall, Long Island, Otto, Distr. of Columbia, 

 Washington, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas 

 (Show), 1 c? , 1 ? , Texas. Eicp. 52-56 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xsi. p. 78, pi. vii. ff. 20, 21. 



Head blackish, the vertices of the lobes red. Body somewhat 

 flattened, a diamond-shaped elevation on joints 5, 8, and 12 

 dorsally ; dull brown, mottled, a blackish shaded dorsal band 

 enclosing the dorsal elevations ; hairs short, whitish, growing from 

 the skin. Food-plants : Elm, Apple, Linden. — H. G. D. 



*3708. Acronycta transversata. (Plate CXXV. fig. 32.) 



Acronr/cta fransversaia, Smith, Bnt. News Philacl. viii. p. 149 (1897) ; 

 Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 65, pi. x. f. 10; Pyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 100. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ash-grey irrorated with black ; 

 shoulders with black streaks. Fore wing ash-grey irrorated with 

 black ; a black streak below base of cell extending to the ante- 

 medial line ; subbasal line represented by a black spot on costa ; 

 anteraedial line represented by one or two spots on costa, two 

 angled marks in subraerlian interspace and one or two lunules on 

 inner margin sometimes forming an almost continuous line ; 

 orbicular defined by black, small, round, the reniform very ill- 

 defined, dark ; medial line represented by an oblique blackish bar 

 from costa to reniform, inwardly oblique and irregular from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line black, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, oblique below vein 4 and angled 

 inwards in subraedian fold, crossed by a short black streak in discal 

 fold and by a btreak in submedian fold extending to near termen ; 

 the terminal area somewhat darker : the subterminal line absent ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; the cilia intersected with black. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with brown in female ; 

 the underside with discoidal spot and postmedial line. 



Bah. U.S.A., Colorado. Exp. 42-46 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me, figured from a drawing from cotype in Coll. J. 

 B. Smith. 



