254 noctuib^t;. 



with black point beyond it ; antemedial line blackish, erect, 

 slightly waved ; orbicular and reniform with slight whitish annuli 

 faintly defined by black, both somewhat constricted at middle ; a 

 round ochreous spot below end of cell slightly defined by blackish 

 and with whitish point in centre ; postmedial line black, slightly 

 sinuous, obliqiie to vein 5, then erect, a fuscous patch beyond it on 

 costal area with grej^ points on costa ; a grey-white apical patch 

 defined by black ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish defined 

 on each side by patches of fuscous brown, waved ; a series of 

 small black spots before termen ; cilia chequered with fuscous at 

 tips. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins brown ; a dark point 

 at lower angle of cell and brown shade from it to inner margin ; 

 a faint brown postmedial line ending at tornus ; the terminal area 

 suffused with brown narrowing to tornus ; the underside with two 

 black discoidal striae, diffused blackish medial and postmedial bars 

 from costa, punctiform postmedial line, and blackish streak in base 

 of submedian fold. 



Huh. Mexico, Coatepec (Schaus), type t d" in U.S. jSTat. Mus. 

 Exp. 54 millira. 



*7377. Acanthodica emittens. (riate CCIII. fig. 8.) 



Agrotis emittens, Wlk. xi. 737 (1857). 



^ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with red-brown and 

 iiTorated with a few dark brown scales, the vertex of head and 

 tegulae more rufous ; palpi streaked with brown ; frons with 

 lateral brown bars ; legs banded with dark brown ; (abdomen 

 wanting). Pore wing greyish tinged with red-brown and irrorated 

 with a few black-brown scales ; a subbasal black bar from costa; 

 antemedial line slight, black, excurved below costa, then slightly 

 sinuous ; orbicular, reniform and a spot below the cell with faint 

 pale annuli, elliptical, the reniform somewhat constricted at middle 

 and a black striga above it from costa ; postmedial line black with 

 red-brown band on its outer side, arising below costa, somewhat 

 oblique and excurved, a slight black streak beyond it in discal 

 fold ; a dark brown patch on costal area with pale point on costa 

 before the subterminal line which is represented by a series of 

 slight blackish spots and striae, the spots below vein 7 dentate and 

 extending to near termen ; a series of minute black spots faintly 

 defined on inner side by whitish before termen ; the cilia with a - 

 series of small dark spots. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 veins and inner margin tinged with brown ; a terminal brown 

 band, broad at costa, narrowing to tornus ; cilia white tinged with 

 red-brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with dark 

 brown and with oblique blackish medial and postmedial bars, the 

 terminal area suffused with brown to vein ,4 and with a subterminal 

 series of short dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Jamaica, type f § in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 54 millim. 



