loO noctuid.t;. 



Ab. 1. ijulla. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing suffused 

 Avith fuscous, leaving the orbicular annulus white. 



Ab. 2. grumi. Fore -vvina; narrower, the antemedial area whiter ; 

 hind wing wholly white. — Thian-Shan Mts. 



Hab. BEiTAm, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Denmark, Leech 

 Coll. ; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; 

 Swiiv^ERLAND, Frey Coll.; Spain; LrALY ; Scandinavia; Edssia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Eithynia ; Persia ; 

 AV. Siberia; Mongolia, Thian-Shan Mts. ; E. Siberia, Amurland. 

 Ed'p. 40-46 millini. 



L/arva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 142 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 234, pi. 120. f. 3. 



Dark fuscous or grey above, paler at sides ; numerous pale 

 yellowish pubescent points forming ill-defined lines; lOlh somite 

 Avith a pale yellow or white dorsal patch ; numerous pale or white 

 hairs; head black marked with white. Food-plants: Poplar or 

 I'arely Sali^v. 7-9. 



3742. Acronycta tiena. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 29.) 



Acronycta tiena, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 216, pi. 8. f. 10 (1906). 



Head and thorax grey mixed Avith brown and fuscous ; palpi 

 Avith the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; tarsi blackish ringed with 

 Avhite ; abdomen Avbite suffused with brown, leaving white seg- 

 mental bands and the base Avhite. Fore wing grey-Avhite thickly 

 irrorated and suffused with blackish ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 double, blackish, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, oblique, angled outwards below costa, inwards 

 on vein 1 and excurved in suhmedian interspace and above inner 

 margin; orbicular defined by blackish, small, round ; reniform very 

 indistinctly defined, Avith dark lunule on inner side of centre ; an 

 oblique blackish shtide from costa to reniform ; postmedial line 

 double with Avhite lunules on it above and beloAV vein 1 ; bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of dark spots in the inter- 

 spaces ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia chequered grey and 

 fuscous. Hind Aving pure AA^hite with slight broAvn terminal line 

 from apex to vein 2 ; the underside Avith the costal area irrorated 

 with a fcAV brown scales, a small dark discoidal spot. 



Huh. E. Turkestan, Hi in Coll. Piingeler, Alexander Mts. ; 

 W. China, Moupin {Kricheldorf), 2 c? . Exj). 46 millim. 



3743. Acronycta bicolor. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 30.) 



Avrom/cta hieolor, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 332; Ilmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 243. 



Head and thorax bhick, Avith a few Avhite scales ; tarsi ringed 

 with whitish ; abdomen grey suffused with brown. Fore wing 

 black-brown slightly irrorated with grey ; subbasal line represented 

 by indistinct double black striae from costa and single striga from 



