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represented bj- slight blackish strite from costa and cell ; antemedial 

 line rather indistinct, double, the lines rather widely separated 

 towards costa on which are small black spots, oblique, waved, 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular defined by black and with 

 dark point in centre, small, round; reniform defined by black, the 

 black on outer edge reduced to points, the centre suffused witli 

 fuscous ; an oblique black striga from costa to reniform and oblique 

 waved line from lower angle of coll to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line black defined by whitish lunules on inner side, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, strongly incurved below vein 3 and 

 angled outwards on vein 1, some whitish suffusion beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight Avhitish 

 ■marks in the interspaces except at middle with slight dentate 

 blickish marks on their outer side ; a terminal series of blackish 

 points with slight blackish streaks from tliem intersecting the cilia. 

 Hind wing pure white with slight dark irroration on the veins 

 towards termen on which is a series of slight dark spots ; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a 

 small indistinct discoidal spot. 



2 . Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia white. 



Ab. 1. nbscura. Larger and darker. — Alps, Norway. 



Ab, 2. myricce. Smaller and darker. — Britain mountains, Tar- 

 bagatai Mts. 



Ab. 3. euphrasice. Paler, w^hitish or yellowish grey. — S. Europe. 



Ab. 4, esulcc. Fore wing suffused with brown. 



Sab. Britain, Forres, liannoch. Leech Coll., England, Leech Coll. ; 

 France, Sand and Leech Colls. ; Grrmaxy, Zeller, Frey and Leech 

 Colls.; AiJSTRiv; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Zeller and 

 Frey Colls. ; Spain ; Italy ; Sicily, Zeller Coll. ; Halmatia ; 

 Balkan States; Scandinavia; Ritssia ; Armenia; Asia Minor; 

 Siberia ; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai Mts. ^.t^j. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Me^r. Brit. Lep. p. 143; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 263, pi. 122. f. 3. 



Black, the segmental incisions greenish grey, sometimes mostly 

 suffused with whitish ; subdorsal series of whitish or pale vellow 

 trilobate spots; subspiracular line orange-red; 2nd somite with 

 orange- red band ; fascicles of black hair mixed with whitish ; head 

 black. Food-plants : Myrica, Erica., Birch, &c. 8-9. 



3755. Acronycta abscondita. 



Acronycta abscondita, Treit. Sch:nett. Eur. x. 2. p. 5 (1835) ; Frr. Neue 

 Beitr. pi. ]78; Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 378 ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 133. 



INociua euphorbim, Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 376 (nee Schiff.). 



J . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous black ; 

 palpi with the 2nd joints blackish ; tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown, the basal crest black 

 and white. Fore wing grey-white almost entirely suflused and 

 irrorated with fu&cous brown, the veins with sliglit dark streaks ; 



