708 CATALOGUE OF 



Cymatophora albuncula, Eversmann, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 

 1851, xxiv. No. 2, 627, 15. 



Allied to C. bipuncta. 



Irkoutzk. 



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DlPHTHERA PLACENS. 



Foem. Albida ; caput nigro bifasciatum; thorax nigro varius, 

 fascia antica cervina ; abdomen apicem versus cinereum ; 

 pedes nigro fascia ti ; ala? anticce subargentece, strigis transver- 

 sis, lituris costalibus, lineis angulosis maculisque nonnullis 

 nigris, orbiculari et reniformi albo nigroque marginatis ; pos- 

 ticce albida;, fuscescente marginata3. 



Female. Whitish. Head with two black bands. Palpi 

 black on the outer side. Thorax with two oblique black stripes, and 

 with a black band, in front of which there is a broader fawn- 

 coloured band. Abdomen cinereous towards the tip. Legs with 

 black bands. Fore wings somewhat silvery, with black transverse 

 streaks, with black costal marks, with irregular zigzag black trans- 

 verse lines, and with a few black spots ; first spot by the claviform 

 mark ; second between the orbicular and the reniform ; third near 

 the tip of the costa ; fourth and fifth on the exterior border; orbi- 

 cular and reniform spots with white and black borders, the former 

 round, nearly half the size of the latter. Hind wings white, brown- 

 ish along the borders. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 

 18 lines. 



a. Bogota. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



lis 



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 ACRONYCTA DIFFUSA. 



Cinerea ; thorax nigro conspersus ; abdomen canum ; alee antica 

 fusco ex parte nebulosce, lineis transversis nigris undulati 

 duplicatis, lunulis marginalibus nigris, orbiculari et reni- 

 formi nigro marginatis ; posticce pallide cinerea?, fuscescente 

 marginata?. 



Cinereous. Thorax speckled with black. Abdomen hoary. 

 Fore wings shaded here and there with dark brown : transverse 

 lines black, undulating, double ; the black submarginal streaks be- 

 tween the veins ending in marginal lunules ; orbicular and reniform 



