438 
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Acronycta afflicta nov. sp. (Plate 9, fig. 4.) 
Anterior wings dark grey, shaded with black. The basal and trans¬ 
verse anterior lines are black, geminate, undulate. The median space 
is dark grey, lighter on the costa and along internal margin and tra¬ 
versed by the median shade line which is black, dentate, crosses the 
reniform spot, and is composed of three distinct black bands which are 
obscured in the center of the wing, and only apparent on the costa and 
internal margin. The discal space is occupied by a deep blackish 
shade, showing a somewhat greenish reflection, and which occupies all 
the subterminal space. The ordinary spots are of the normal shape; 
the orbicular distinct, whitish with black center; the reniform broad, 
but slightly excavated externally, obscured by the greenish discal 
shade, ringed with black, and with a central streak. Transverse pos¬ 
terior line intensely black, geminate, minutely dentate. Subterminal 
and terminal lines white, interrupted, dentate between the veins; fringes 
whitish, broadly interrupted with black at the extremities of the veins; 
costa with some whitish marks. Posterior wings grey, darker along 
the veins, slightly silky; fringes as on anterior wings. Disc of thorax 
whitish grey, with two central blackish spots. Tegulae and collar black¬ 
ish, latter with a black line and greyish superiorily. Head black; 2nd 
joint of palpi blackish sprinkled with whitish inferiorily; neck, at base 
of palpi, white; proboscis blackish. Under surface of anterior wings 
greyish, darker shaded on the disc, crossed by a blackish subterminal 
band preceded and followed by a blackish costal mark, and with a small 
ochraceous tuft at base. Under surface of posterior wings greyish, 
blackish along the veins and showing a blackish discal lunule and 
median dentated baud. % Exp. inch. 
Hah. Texas. Coll Ent. Soc. Philadelphia. 
The orbicular spot and disc of the thorax in this species are promi¬ 
nent, owing to the contrast of coloring they present to the blackish 
wings and tegulae. 
Besides the two just described species of North American Acronycta. 
I have before me specimens belonging to four distinct, and I believe 
hitherto undescribed, species, but as I cannot as yet with certainty 
separate them from some unidentified descriptions under this genus by 
Messrs. Gruenee and Walker, I defer their publication for the present. 
I am indebted to Mr. A. S. Packard, Jr., for specimens of Aeronyctse 
taken in Maine and Massachusetts. 
