152 NOCTtJIDiE. 



Veg. ; Flint eti. p. 436, ff. 216-218 ; Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. sxi. 



p. 44, pi. i. f. 2 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 40. 

 Acronycia acericola, Guen. Noct. i. p. 48 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 41. 

 Apatela ohscura, H. Edw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 169 (1886). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous brown ; 2nd 

 joint of palpi and frons with black patches at sides ; shoulders 

 with black streaks ; abdomen grej'-white irrorated with brown, the 

 ventral surface white with slight brown sublateral streaks. Fore 

 wing grey-white irrorated with brown ; a small blackish spot at 

 base ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line double, oblique, the lines widely separated, irregular, 

 the outer line angled outwards below costa, the inner line inwards 

 below the cell ; orbicular and reniform defined by fuscous, the 

 former small, round, the latter with irregular line in centre, an 

 oblique diffused shade above it from costa and a slight obliquely 

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

 line double filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then 

 rather strongly dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, with 

 slight brown shade beyond it in submedian interspace, slight 

 dark streak from it to termen in submedian fold and some white 

 points on costa ; the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; 

 subterminal line absent ; a terminal series of black points with 

 slight dark streaks from them intersecting the cilia. Hind wing 

 grey-white tinged with brown and with reddish ochreous at base, 

 the veins rather darker ; a faint curved postmedial line and ter- 

 minal series of slight dark lunules ; cilia white ; the underside 

 white slightly irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal lunula 

 and minutely waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, London {Saunders), 3 5 -, Manitoba, 

 Aweme (Cnddle), 1 $ ; U.S.A., Eastern States and West to Utah, 

 New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Beverly (Paclxird), 1 § , New 

 York (Doubleday, Scudder), 1 cJ , 1 $ , Evans Center (Grote), 2 d" , 

 3 2 1 Distr. of Columbia, Washington, Pennsylvania, Mt. Airey, 

 Georgia, Virginia, Texas. E.ij). 60-68 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 46, pi. vi. f. 17. 



Head shining black. Body whitish, a double dorsal and lateral 

 black line, more or less broken ; dorsum of joints 12-13 black ; 

 hairs fine, long, pale yellow, growing from the skin, with a pair of 

 slender long black pencils on joints 5 and 7 and a single one on 

 joint 12 ; feet black. Eood- plant : Maple {Acer). — }i. G. D. 



3746. Acronycta hesperida. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 1.) 



Acronycta Aes;9mcZa, Smith, Ent. News Philad. viii. p. 148(1897) ; Smith 

 & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 49, pi. x, f. 9; Dyar, Cat. Lep. 

 N. Am. p. 99. 



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

 palpi and frons with dark brown patches at. sides ; patagia with 

 black streaks on upper edges at base ; abdomen grey-white suffused 



