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line defined by white above and with bhick suiFusion below it ; 

 autemedial line strong, double, oblique, waved, angled inwards on 

 median nervure and vein 1, with blackish patch beyond it above 

 vein 1 ; orbicular and renitorm defined by black, the fornaer with 

 black point in centre, round, the latter with its centre sufi'used with 

 fuscous, open above and with the black on outer edge reduced to 

 points. A black striga from costa to renit'orm ; postmedial line 

 double, filled in with whitish, the outer line strong, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some white 

 points with short black streaks between them beyond it on costa; the 

 veins of terminal area streaked with black ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a series of white spots in the interspaces, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, then incurved ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia chequered black and white at tips. 

 Hind wing white ; a slight discoidal spot ; the veins of terminal 

 half streaked with brown and the terminal area irrorated with 

 brown, in female wholly tinged with brown ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a 

 small dark discoidal spot. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle), 1 2 ? Alberta, 

 Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 9 c? , 4 $ , Br. Columbia, Sicamous Junet, 

 {Miss Bicardo), 1 § ; U.S.A., Washington, Easton. Ecvj). 38-40 

 millim. 



3730. Acronycta impressa. (Plate C-XXVI. fig. 20.) 



Acronycta impressa, Wlk. ix. p. 61 (1856) ; Smith & Djar. Pr. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. xxi. p. 159, pi. i. f. 12 & pi. xiii. ff. 4, 5 ; Smitb, Oat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 41. 

 Acronycta fasciata, Wlk. ix. 62 (1856). 

 Acronycta verrillii, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 178, pi ii 



f. 82 (1870). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black ; 2nd joint 

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

 with black stripes ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey tinged 

 with brown and irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing grey tinged 

 with brown and irrorated with fuscous, the inner area suffused with 

 brown to antemedial, medial or postmedial lines leaving some 

 ochreous white on base of inner margin ; subbasal line represented 

 by double black striee from costa and single striga from cell ; ante- 

 medial line double, waved, nearly erect ; orbicular and renit'orm 

 defined by black, the former round, the latter sufi'used with brown ; 

 medial line oblique irom costa to renit'orm, inwardly oblique and 

 dentate from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with whitish, the inner line indistinct, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, strongly incurved below vein 3 

 and angled outwards on vein 1, some brown suff'usion beyond it and 

 a large patch between veins 3 and 1 and some whitish points on 

 costa ; the veins of terminal area with dark streaks ; a whitish 

 subterminal line defined on outer side by small dentate black 

 marks ; a series of small black spots on termen and base of cilia, 



