146 noctuid.t;. 



with the basal joint white in front ; patagia edged with black ; 

 tegulas and thorax with paired black stripes ; tibiae streaked with 

 black, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale grey irrorated 

 with brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing white thickly 

 irrorated with dai'k brown ; subbasal line represented by a very 

 oblique black striga from costa ; a black streak in submedian fold 

 from base to the aiitemedial line, which is very indistinct, double, 

 with oblique dark bar from costa, then strongly angled outwards in 

 the interspaces and inwards on the veins; orbicular very small, 

 round, whitish defined by black ; reniform represented by small 

 dark spots at angles of cell, with a minute streak beyond upper 

 angle and two beyond lower angle ; a rather diffused curved medial 

 line; postmedial line with two very oblique dark streaks on costal 

 area, then black defined by white on inner side, strongly dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, crossed by a black streak in 

 submedian fold from medial line to termen and with some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; the interspaces of terminal area with 

 black streaks, those above and below veins 5 and 2 extending to 

 ])ostmedial line, the streaks intersecting the cilia. Hind wing 

 seraihyaline white, the apex slightly tinged with brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown. 

 1/ab. U.S.A., Texas, 2^,1$ type. Ex2^. c? 42, $ 52 millim. 



3737. Acronycta digna. 



Thalpophila digna, Biitl. Trans. Ent. Sue. 1881, p. 176; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. l;33. 

 Acronycta michael, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 18, pi. ii. f. 13 (1884). 



S . Head and thorax whitish mixed with red-brown, the patagia 

 and metathorax with white patches ; 2nd joint of palpi with 

 blackish patch ; shoulders and outer edges of patagia with brown 

 streaks ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen whitish suffused 

 with red-brown. Fore wing grey-white irrorated and in parts 

 suffused with red-browu, the antemedial costal area whiter ; sub- 

 basal line represented by double brown striae from costa and single 

 striga from cell with blackish streak from it to antemedial line, 

 which is double, brown, angled outwards beloAV costa and inwards 

 in submedian fold, then oblique, sinuous; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by brown, the former small, round, with brown point in 

 cent-re, the latter with brownish lunule on inner side of centre and 

 its lower extremity produced ; a diffused brown striga from costa 

 to reniform and incurved line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin with short blackish streak before it above vein 1 ; post- 

 medial line double filled in with white, the inner line rather 

 indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, then incurved, 

 angled outwards on veins 4, 3, then strongly incurved and bent 

 outwards at vein 1, crossed by a minute dark streak in submedian 

 fold and with some white points beyond it on costa ; the terminal 

 area somewhat more suff'used with brown with a rather diffused 

 Avhite subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at 



