140 NocruiD^. 



Ab. 1 2 • Iliiitl Aving more suffused with biowu, the terminal 

 baud entire, leaving a yellow patch on ternien in submedian inter- 

 space. 



Ab. 2 2 • Hind wing whitish, tinged with yellow and suffused 

 with brown. 



Hab. W. China, Chang-yang {Pratt), 2 $ ,Was,han (Pratt), 1 $ , 

 Chia-kou-ho {Pratt), 1 J, 2 $ type, Ta-chieii-lu {Pratt), 1 $, 

 KvjJ. 48-56 millim. 



3728. Acronycta nigricans. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 18.) 



Acronyota nigricans, Leech, Ti-ans. Eiit. Soe. 1900, p. 104. 



2 . Head and thorax black, mixed with some brown and white ; 

 palpi yellowish white at base and extremity of 2nd joint, tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally suffused 

 with brown. Fore wing grey, thickly irrorated with black-brown, 

 the inner half and terminal area suffut^ed with black ; subbasal line 

 represented by double black striae from costa and single striga from cell 

 with black streak from it to beyond antemedial line, which is double, 

 waved, oblique, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former round with sligbt dark centre, a 

 diffused oblique dark shade from costa to lower angle of cell 

 through the reniform and traces of an incurved line from cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line double, with white lunule on it 

 below submedian fold, the inner line indistinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 3 and angled 

 outwards on vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa; a 

 dentate whitish subterminal line defined by black on outer side ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia with a fine whitish line at 

 base. Hind wing pure white ; the veins towards tornus slightly 

 streaked with brown ; the apex tinged with brown; a terminal 

 series of blackish points except towards tornus ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with brown and with slight dark patch at 

 middle, a slight discoidal point and traces of postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 6. 



Hab. W. China, Washan(F/r/«),5 $ type. Exp. 44-50 millim. 



3729. Acronycta emaculata. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 19.) 



Lep. 



Acronycta emaculata. Smith, Ent. News PhiJad. riii. p. 152 (1897) ; Smith 

 & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 168, pi. xiii. f ". 2 ; Dyar, Cat. I 



N. Am. p. 104. 



Head and thorax bluish white mixed with black; 2nd joint of 

 palpi with black band; shoulders and outer edges of patagia with 

 black streaks ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white slightly 

 irrorated with black and dorsally suffused with red-brown excejtt 

 at extremity. Fore wing bluish grey thickly irrorated with black 

 and in parts suffused with black, especially beyond the postmedial 

 line ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa ; a 

 slight black streak in submedian fold from base to the antemedial 



