ACROXYCXA. 157 



3752. Acronycta longa. (Plate CXXYII. fig. 6.) 



Acronycta luvga, Guen. Noct. i. p. 54 (1852). 



Acronycta xyUnoides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 56 (1852). 



Acronycta, xyliniforniis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 400 (1852) ; Smith & Dyar, Pr. 



U.S. Nat, Mas. xxi. p. 166, pi. iv. ff. 5, 10, 12, 15; Smith, Cat. Nuct. 



N. Am. p. 45. 

 Apatela pallidicoma, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surr. Terr, iv. p. 169 



(1878) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 45. 



Head and thorax grey- white or purplish grey mixed with brown ; 

 palpi white, the 2nd joint black at sides ; vertex of head with 

 paired black streaks ; tegulse with dorsal black streak ; shoulders 

 and outer edges of patagia streaked with black ; tibise streaked with 

 black, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale rufous slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous, the ventral surface white. Fore wing grey- 

 white or purplish grey slightly tinged with reddish brown and more 

 or less irrorated with black, some white at base of inner margin ; 

 subbasal line represented by double dark striae from costa ; a slight 

 black streak in submedian fold from base to the antemedial line, 

 which is double, oblique, waved, angled outwards below costa, very 

 indistinct except the outer line towards costa ; the medial area with 

 black streak above vein 1 ; orbicular and reuiform defined by black 

 with white patch between them in cell, the former small, round, 

 the latter with the black reduced to points on outer side ; an 

 oblique dark striga from costa to reniform ; postmedial line black 

 defined by white on inner side, double at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then strongly dentate, oblique below vein 4, angled 

 inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1, crossed by a 

 black streak in submedian fold from well before it to termen 

 towards which it forks and with some white points beyond it on 

 costa; traces of a whilish subterminal line, angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold and with blackish streaks beyond it in the interspaces 

 intersecting the cilia. Hind wing pure white, in female usually 

 more or less suffused with brown especially on terminal area, the 

 ape-x; faintly tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., 3 d" , 2 ? , New York, 3 $ type palli- 

 dlcomma, llhode I., 1 2 ? Dislr. of Columbia, Washington, Illinois, 

 Carbondale, 1 5 , Missouri, 1 J, Florida (Doitbledcaj), 1 $ , Texas. 

 Kvp. 34-50 millim. Type t xylinoides in Mus. Paris. 



iMwa. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 168, pi. viii. f. 35. 



Head shining black or red. Body blackish, shading to red below, 

 warts large ; the hairs in dense tufts, spinose, brown, mixed with 

 short feathery white ones on wart i. on joints 5 to 11; hairs of 

 joint 5 blackish or red. Food-plants : Low bushes. — H. G. D, 



3753. Acronycta sperata. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 7.) 



Acronycta sperata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 81, pi. ii. f. 1 

 (1873); Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 154, pi. ii. f. 6; 

 Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 45. 



Acronycta speratina, Smith, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. xiii. p. 190 (1905). 



