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and irrorated with fuscous brown. Fore wing grey-white very 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous brown • subbasal line represented by 

 a slight dark striga from costa ; anteraedial line very indistinct, 

 double, rather diffused, oblique, angled outwards below costa and 

 above inner margin and inwards just below cell; orbicular and 

 reniform suffused with fuscous and defined by blackish, the former 

 small, irregularly rounded, and rarely with a slight dark streak 

 from its lower extremity to the latter, which is narrow and bar- 

 shaped ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, the outer 

 line formed by small rather diffused blaclv luuules, bent outwards 

 below costa and incurved below vein 4, with some dark suffusion 

 beyond it in submedian interspace, slight black streak in submedian 

 fold and minute white points on costa; the postmedial area slightly 

 tinged with brown ; subterminal line absent ; a series of small 

 blackish spots on termen and base of cilia. Hind wing white 

 tinged with brown, the veins brown ; a terminal series of slight 

 brown points ; cilia white with slight brown line at tips ; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot and 

 diffused postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then incurved. 



Ilab. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme {Oriddh), 1 2 , Br. Columbia, 

 Kaslo (Mrs. JVicJioU), 1 $ , Victoria, 1 2 ? Vancouver, Nanaimo ; 

 U.S.A., Washington, Seattle, Tacoma, California. Exj). 56-64 

 millim. 



Larva. Head shining black. Body black, clothed with short 

 dense even hairs forming rings on the segments, the incision bare ; 

 bright red-brown dorsally, whitish laterally ; a single black hair- 

 pencil on joints 5, 7, and 12. Feet black. Food-plant : Ahius. — 

 H. G. D, 



*3747. Acronycta hastnlifera, 



Phalcsna hastidifera, Smith & Abbot, Ins, Georgia, ii. p. 183, pi, 92 (1797) ; 

 Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. ^at. Mus. xxi. p. 47, pis. li. f. 12 & iii. f. 6 ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 41, 



J . Head and thorax whitish grey with slight dark irroration ; 

 abdomen white irrorated with brown. Fore wing whitish grey 

 with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line absent or represented at 

 costa only ; antemedial line incomplete, oblique, double, the inner 

 line more prominent, represented by a small spot on costa, slight 

 dentate mark just below cell and faint patch on inner margin at 

 middle ; orbicular defined by black, small or large, round or ellip- 

 tical ; reniform large, incompletely defined and with dark lunule in 

 centre; medial shade oblique from costa to reniform, then in- 

 distinct ; postmedial line single, black, sometimes defined on inner 

 side by a pale shade, and on outer by a dark shade, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 

 below vein 4, crossed by a black streak in submedian fold not 

 reaching termen ; a series of black spots on termen and base of 

 cilia. Hind wdng whitish faintly tinged with yellow, a terminal 



