ACEONTCTA, 149 



fuscous, bent ouiwards below fosta, then indistinctly double, 

 dentate, strongly incurved below vein 4, crossed by a fuscous streak 

 in submedian fold extending to termen, some pale points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between 

 the postmedial and terminal areas, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black strise. Hind wing 

 white, the veins of terminal half tinged with brown, the termen 

 slightly irrorated with brown; a dark terminal line; cilia chequered 

 brownish and white ; the underside silvery white, the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the veins of terminal half tinged 

 with brown, a dark terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the lines more distinctly double, the 

 postmedial line filled in with whitish and without the dark streak 

 crossing it. — Persia. 



Hah. N.W. Peesia, Urumiah (Dalfry), 1 c? : W. Turkestan, 

 Turcomania, 1 (S , Ferghana, Sarawschan. Exjy. 42 millim. 



3741. Acronycta megacephala. 



Noctua meqacej)hala, ScliifF. Wien. Verz. p. 67 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. 

 ii. p. 175 a787) ; Esp. Si^hmett. iv. p] 144. ff. 1-4 ; Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., 

 Noct. ff. 10, 11 ; Pup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. ii44, pi. 88. f. 6 ; Steph. 111. Brib. 

 Ent., Haust. iii. p. 37; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 131. 



Acronycta grumi, Alph. Rom. M6in. ix. p. 3 (1897). 



Acronycta pulla , Sti-aud, Arch. Naturv. Christian, xxv. no. 9, p. 9(1903). 



S . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey-white ; 

 2nd joint of palpi with black band ; shoulders and outer edges of 

 patagia with black streaks ; tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen 

 Avhitish suffused with brown and irrorated with black at extremity. 

 Fore wing whitish almost entirely suffused and irrorated with 

 black-brown ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial dine double filled in with greyish, 

 oblique, waved ; orbicular whitish defined by black and with slight 

 dark centre, round; reniform slight defined by black on inner side, 

 undefined on outer and with slight dark lunule in centre; an 

 oblique dark striga from costa to reniform and traces of a waved 

 line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 incurved below vein 3, some white points beyond it on costa ; the 

 veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; an indistinct 

 pale lunulate subterminal line extending to the terminal series of 

 blackish points ; cilia white with a series of black points. Hind 

 wing pure white, the veins of terminal area streaked with brown ; 

 a faint subterminal band of dark irroration and a fuscous mark in 

 submedian fold; a terminal series of dark striaB ; cilia intersected 

 by slight dark streaks ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 tinged and irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, post- 

 medial series of minute dark streaks on the veins and terminal 

 series of small lunules. 



$ . Hind wing more suffused with browu. 



