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streak in siibmedian fold to just beyond the antemcdial line, which 

 is indistinct, double, the lines rather widely separated towards 

 costa, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular incompletely defined by black, 

 rather oblique elliptical ; reniform faintly defined, with an oblique 

 black striga on inner side, an oblique black striga above it from 

 costa ; postmedial line blackish defined by white on inner side, 

 double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, escurved 

 to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some brown suflTusion beyond it 

 between veins 3 and 1, crossed by black streaks in disc-al and sub- 

 median folds, the latter extending almost to termen, some slight 

 white streaks with lilack points between them beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line absent ; a series of small black spots on termen 

 and base of cilia. Hind wing wbitish suffused with reddish brown ; 

 cilia white; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a slight dark streak in base of cell, a black discoidal spot, 

 an indistinct difi'used sinuous postmedial line with minute dark 

 streaks on the veins, and terminal series of small black lunules. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 2 c? , Ontario, Ottawa (Fletcher, Ymwg, 

 Gibson), 4 S , 2 § , London (Saunders), 2 J , 1 $ , Manitoba, 

 Aweme (Griddle), 1 $ ; U.S.A., Maine, New Hampshire, New 

 York, 3 c?, 5 2 , Bufialo, IS, 1 ? , Trenton Palls {Douhledaij), 

 2 S , Schenectady, Kendall, liochester, Long Island, llhode Island, 

 1 5 , Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merrlclc), 1 $ , New Jersey, 

 Distr. of Columbia, Washington, Michigan, Hastings, 1 cJ , Wis- 

 consin, Milwaukee Co., 1 S, Georgia, Nebraska, West Point, 

 Kansas (Snow), 1 (5* , 1 $ . Exp. 40-46 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 80, pi. v. ff. 7, 8. 



Head black, the vertices of the lobes red. Body purplish on the 

 sides, with a blackish dorsal stripe that ends on a rounded elevation 

 on joint 12, and contains a series oE dorsal markings consisting of 

 a square black spot with two red and two yellow dots with a 

 lateral arm ; a broad greyish lateral band ; hairs growing from 

 the tubercles dorsally, supplemented by wliitish ones laterally, 

 growing from the skin. Pood-plants : Elm, Apple, &c. — H. G. D. 



3716. Acronycta spinigsra. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 8.) 



Acronycta spinigera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 45 (1852); Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 122, pi. xii. f. 5 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 39. 

 A'paiela liarvei/ava, Grrote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Plnl. 1875, p. 418; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 39. 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; palpi white at base, 

 the 2nd joint with black band ; shoulders streaked with black ; 

 mid and hind tibiae streaked with black, the tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen whitish largely mixed with brown, the 

 ventral surface paler. Pore wing whitish thickly irrorated with 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by double dark striae from costa 

 and single striga from cell ; a fine black streak in submedian fold 

 defined by wliitish above and brown below and extending to outer 

 edge of antemedial line, which is double, oblique, waved, angled 



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