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NOCTTJIDiE. 



2455. Eurotype acutissima. 



FachyiMlia acutissima, Grote, Check List Noct. p. 23, pi. f. 9 (1875) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 167. 



S . Head and thorax clothed with white, brown, and black 

 scales and hair ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous mixed 

 with brown. Fore wing whitish thickly suffused and irrorated 

 with dark brown; a black streak below base of cell defined by 

 white above ; subbasal line defined by whitish on outer side, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by white on 

 inner side, oblique, dentate, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards 

 above inner margin ; claviform large, defined by black ; orbicular 



Fig. 85. — 'Eurotype acutissima, (S - i- 



and reniform large, with brown centres and white annuli defined 

 by black, the former oblique V-shaped, open above ; postmedial 

 line double,^ filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, 

 then strongly dentate, angled inwards in submedian fold; sub- 

 terminal line white defined on inner side by small dentate black 

 marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, in- 

 curved at submedian fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules; 

 cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wing fuscous brown, the 

 basal area rather paler ; the underside yellowish white thickly 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot, waved postmedial line, and 

 traces of subtermiual line. 



Hab. Canada, Montreal, 1 ^ type, Ottawa (Toung)^ 1 c?, Nova 

 Scotia. Exp. 50 millim. 



2456. Eurotype medialis. (Plate CIII. fig. 15.) 



Folia medialis, Grote, Anu. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, xi. p. 306 (1876) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 167. 



Head and thorax clothed with white, brown, and black scales 

 mixed ; frons with black bar ; teguloB with black medial line and 

 blackish tips ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen brown and 

 white mixed, the dorsal crests black at tips. J?ore wing whitish 

 irrorated with brown, the medial area suffused with brown ; a 

 sinuous black streak below base of cell ; a waved black subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold on a white patch ; antemedial 

 line black defined by white on inner side, oblique, angled inwards 

 on the veins and to inner margin ; claviform large, defined by 



