134 NOCTTJIDiE. 



fliscoidal spot, traces of postmedial line with dark spols on and 

 below costa and in discal and submedian folds, and terminal series 

 of slight dark lunulas. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing more suffused with fuscous brown. 



Hah. Japan {Fryer), 1 c? , 1 $ type, Yokohama {Fryer), 1 cS , 

 Shimonosaki {Leech), 1 S , Kiushiu, 1 J ; JST, China, Wei-ha-wei 

 {Fktclier), 1 c? • Exp. 34-38 millim. 



3719. Acronycta menyanthidis. 



Noctua menyanthidis. View. Tab. Verz. ii. p. 50, pi. 2. ff. 1, 2 (1790) ; Esp. 

 Schmett. iv. p. 461, pi. 144. f. 5 (178U); Sepp. Ins. Ned. iv. p. I(i7, 

 pi. 49 ; HUbn. Eur. Sfhiiiett., Noct. fl'. 6, 7 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 239, 

 pi. 88. f. 1 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 42, pi. 27. t'. 1 ; Staud. 

 Oat. Lep. pal. p. 132. 



Acronycta ohsoleta, Tutt, Brit. Noct. i. p. 24 (1891). 



Acronycta scotica, Tutt, Brit. N.ict. i. p. 24 (1S91). 



Acronycta svffasa, Tutt, Brit. Noct. i. p. 24 (1891). 



Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown ; pnlpi brown 

 except at tips; shoulders and outer edges of pat agia with black 

 streaks ; abdomen gre}'- white tinged with brown, the medial 

 segments with diffused dark bands. Fore ■s\ing grej'-white slightlj' 

 suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line 

 represented bj' double dark stria3 from costa and single striga from 

 cell with black streak from it to antemcdial line, which is double, 

 oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular a minute 

 diffused black annulus; renilbrm defined by a black lunule on 

 inner side and black points and striga on outer; a diffused oblique 

 black bar from costa to reniform and .slight incurved brown line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin, on which there is a dark 

 mark ; postmedial line double tilled in with whitish, the outer lino 

 strong, black, the inner indistinct except at costa, strongW bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below 

 vein 4, crossed by a short black fascia in submedian fold from just 

 before it to just beyond it, some white points with short black 

 streaks between thom beyond it on costa ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, diffused, whitish, waved, angled inwards at discal fold and 

 slightly defined by fuscous on outer side ; a terminal series of black 

 striae ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing white tinged 

 with brown, especially on basal and terminal areas ; th& veins 

 streaked with brown ; a fine terminal dark line ; the underside 

 white slightly tinged with brown, the veins brown, a slight dis- 

 coidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. ohsoleta. Rather paler. 



Ab. 2. scotica. Large and bright-coloured, the markings distinct. 

 — W. Scotland. 



A\). 3. suffusa. Much darker and suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Htjkgary ; Switzerland ; 

 Scandinavia, Lapland ; Russia, St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland. Ea-p. 34-44 millim. 



