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LEPIDOPTERA COLLECTED BY W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT ON 

 THE AZORES AND MADEIRA IN 1903. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



1. Pieris brassicae Linn. ab. chariclea Stph., III. i. p. 17. t. 3. figs. 1, 2. 



1 c?, 1 ? , Santa Crnz, Graciosa, April 22. 

 1 S, above Calheta, S. Jorge, Ma)' 7. 

 1 c?, 2 ? ?, above Caso do Pico, May 21. 



2. Chrysophanus phlaeas Linn. ab. phlaeoides Stantl., in St. & Reb., Cut. 512 e. 

 1 ? , Rabaf al, Madeira, Jnno 7. 



3. Agrotis atlantica spec. nov. 



Forewinq : red-brown, varying in depth of tint ; the ordinary lines obscnred 

 across wing, bnt marked on costa by double dark spots ; orbicular stigma round, of 

 ground colonr, slightly paler than tlic cell on each side of it ; reniform filled np with 

 grey, darker in lower half ; both slightly edged with pale ; a slight dark mark on 

 costa before snbmarginal line, which is followed there by a few grey scales ; obscare 

 grey-brown marginal lunules ; fringe grey-brown. 



Ilindwinq : dull smoky buff, with a black snbmarginal fascia thinning ont 

 towards anal angle ; base and inner margin clouded with darker ; a grey cell-spot ; 

 extreme hindmargin and fringe buff ; marginal line broad, reddish. 



Underside jiale fawn, with a slight reddish tinge ; the whole of the forewing, 

 e.xcept costal streak and the hindmargin broadly, bronzy dark grey, with the 

 nervnles showing pale at the edge ; onter line on costa purplish ; hindwing with 

 cell-spot and postraedian line pnrplish ; the snbmarginal fascia slight; fringe 

 pale buff. 



Thorax, patagia, and tips of shoulders concolorous with forewing ; abdomen 

 smoky grey like inner margin and base of hindwing, the segmental rings and anal 

 segment paler; shoulders, head, and apex of palpi fawn-colonr like underside ; 

 jialpi externally and legs red-brown, with pale scales intermixed ; underside of 

 abdomen and the pectus smoky fawn-colour. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



A series from — 



Rpgninho, Terceira, April (S. 



Praya, Graciosa, April 29. 



Above C!alheta, S. Jorge, May 3-0, Vjjic. 



In shape of wings like A. j/ronuba Linn., and superficially resemlding T. baja 

 Fab., bnt distinguished by the smoky buff hindwings. 



4. Agrotis c-nigrum Linn. 



A series from — 



Regninho, Terceira, Apfil 5. 



^bove Calheta, S. Jorge, Mny 3, 



