ACRONYCTA. 161 



series of sliglit brown strife ; the underside with black discoidal 

 spot, and traces of curved xjostmedial line. 



Hah. Cajstada, Hudson's Bay (Baniston), 1 S , Mackenzie II., 

 Port Good Hope, 1 $ ; U.S.A., Colorado, Garfield Co. (Bruce), 

 1 $ cotype. Uxjy. 46 millim. 



3757. Acronycta leporina. 



'NoctucL leporina, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 510 (1758) ; Esp. Schmetfc. iv. 



pi. 91. ff. 1-5 ; Hiibn. Eui-. Schmett., Noct. ff. 15-16 ; Diip. Lep. Fi-. 



vi. p. 225, pi. 87. f. 3; Stejjh. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust, iii. p. 35; 



Smitli & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 59, pi. xi. ff. 1, 2; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 131 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 100. 

 Ncctua bradtjporina, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. if. 570-1 (1818) ; Treit. 



Eur. Scbmett. v. 1, p. 9 (1 825) ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f.636 ; 



Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 36, pi. 26. f. 3. 

 Apatela vidpiva, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 8 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 40. 

 Acronycta himacula, Maassen, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1871, p. 27. 

 Acronycta semivirga, Tutt, Enton]. 1888, p. 52. 

 Acronycta leporella. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 245. 

 Acronycta cineracea, Grses. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 310. 

 Acronycta sancta, H. Edw. Ent. Am. iii. p. 185 (1888) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 40. 

 Apatela nm&ta, Dyar, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 29 (1904). 



Head and thorax pure white ; palpi black at sides ; antennae 

 blackish ; shoulders with black stripes ; metathorax tinged with 

 brown ; tarsi blackish at extremities ; abdomen white dorsally 

 with fuscous hair mixed. Fore wing pure white ; a black mark 

 at base of costa ; subbasal line represented by a black point 

 on costa ; a short sinuous black streak below base of cell expanding 

 into a spot at base ; antemedial line represented by an oblique 



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Fig. V^.— Acronycta leporina, S • \- 



black striga from costa and inwardly oblique striga from cell ; 

 orbicular absent ; reniform a small black lunule with sinuous 

 black bar above it from costa ; postmedial line represented by a 

 black point on costa, then by a few black scales with more distinct 

 small dentate marks above and below vein 5 and below vein 2, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved at discal fold 

 and below vein 4 ; subterminal line absent ; cilia intersected by 

 black streaks in the interspaces. Hind wing pure white ; the 

 underside wnth faint discoidal spot. 



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