. Contributions towards a monograph of the Lepidopterous family Noctuidæ of boreal North America [microform] : a revision of the species of Acronycta (Ochsenheimer) and of certain allied genera. Noctuidae; Moths; Noctuidés; Papillons nocturnes. wo lines are "" '"": ^I^'^^ AMERICAN NOCTUIDAE-SMITH AND DTAR. 51 place; it is also much darker bluish gray. lu the inaleIhe8e;^r;;iaHe^ soiled instead of nearly white, as in the Eastern species m the female are much more obscure, and the daoJr ..Kuk opposite the anal aâgle is entirely absent, although it
. Contributions towards a monograph of the Lepidopterous family Noctuidæ of boreal North America [microform] : a revision of the species of Acronycta (Ochsenheimer) and of certain allied genera. Noctuidae; Moths; Noctuidés; Papillons nocturnes. wo lines are "" '"": ^I^'^^ AMERICAN NOCTUIDAE-SMITH AND DTAR. 51 place; it is also much darker bluish gray. lu the inaleIhe8e;^r;;iaHe^ soiled instead of nearly white, as in the Eastern species m the female are much more obscure, and the daoJr ..Kuk opposite the anal aâgle is entirely absent, although its posUion .s by the angle in the line which has been referred to i he (loscnption. The sexual characters of the male do not differ from the oidiiiary form in this series. i^uia me ACRONYCTA DACTYLINA Grote. (Plates I, flg. 3, adult; VII, 18, 19, larva; XVII, fig. n, log; XIX, 13 ,naie geuitalia; XVI, fig. 8, venation.) .⢠H male, i-syche, 1875, I, p. 42.âGuoTK, Papilio, 1883, III p m Menacronycta dacUjlina Guotk, Mitth. a. .1. , Hildesb. No. 3,1896. p. 10. The ground color is bluish gray with rather dense, flue powderings Head and thorax without distinct markings, but i^owdered like the res ot the upper surface. Primaries with the oriinary maculat on broken, basal line rarely marked even on thecosta; transLseant^dor hue vanably evident, geminate near base, evenly oblique outwardly and moderately ou curved between the veins. In many cases I mS below the cell IS all that is present. The transverse posterior line is single, black, lunulate, more or less dentate on the veins, preceded bv a paler and followed by a darker shading. There is a series of ter jnmal .y ts at the base of the fringes, from which a line somet^es c^^s Inough to the outer edge. The median shade is marked only by a more or less indeflnite, dusky, oblique shade on the costa, which extends to and darkens the center of the reniform. The orbiWuar is sm^ ound, or oval dark rin
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