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3709. Acronycta tota. (Plate CXXVI. fig. ] .) 



Apatela tota, Grote, N. Am. Eut. i. p. 12 (1878) ; Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. 

 Nat. MuB. xxi. p. 66, pi. x. f. 11 ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 39. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous-brown mixed with white ; palpi 

 white below, frons white at sides ; basal joint of antenna; white in 

 front ; patagia white at outer edges ; tarsi banded fuscous and 

 white ; abdomen white, dorsall}' suffused and irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing white suffused and irrorated with brown ; 

 subbasal line represented b}- a slight dark striga from costa ; 

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

 medial line, which is double, slightly excurved from costa to 

 submedian fold where it is angled inwards and the inner line 

 prominently black, then again excurved ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former very small, elongate ; a medial line, 

 black from costa to reniform, then indistinct and angled inwards 

 below vein 2 ; postmedial line slightly defined by whitish on inner 

 side, bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then strongly incurved and with slight black streak from 

 it to termen in submedian fold ; the veins of terminal area slightly 

 streaked with brown ; subterrainal line absent ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; cilia white and brown mixed, the tips chequered 

 white and brown. Hind wing white, the veins brownish, the 

 terminal area slightly irrorated with brown ; a slight discoidal 

 point, indistinct curved postmedial line and terminal series of 

 striae ; the underside M'ith the costal area irrorated with iuscous, a 

 black discoidal spot. 



Palpi very short, hardly reaching middle of frons. 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas {Belfrac/e), 1 J type, Comal Co. Exj). 

 38 millim. 



3710. Acronycta radclifFei. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 2.) 



Apatela raddiffei, Hary. Bull. Buff. Soc. Sat. Sci. ii. p. 270 (187.')) ; Smith 

 & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 1U7, pi. xii. f. 4 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 39. 



S . Head and thorax pale violaceous grey suffused with fuscous ; 

 2nd joint of palpi with black band ; shoulders streaked with black ; 

 mid and hind tibia? streaked with black, the tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with pale brown. Fore 

 wing violaceous white suffused and irrorated with pale brown, 

 the terminal area whiter ; subbasal line indistinct, from costa to 

 median fold in which there is a sinuous black streak defined by 

 white above and extending to well beyond antemedial line, which is 

 double, oblique, slightly bent outwards at submedian fold and the 

 outer line angled outwards below costa ; orbicular with slight 

 whitish annulus defined by blick, somewhat oblique elliptical; 

 reniform with slight whitish lunule defined by black on inner side, 

 undefined on outer except by slight black striae at upper and lower 

 extremities ; medial line very faint, diffused, oblique from costa to 



