THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 455 



h'hizagrotis, Smith, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXXVIII, p. 103 

 (1890) ■■ acclivis. 



Agrotis, Hiibn., Tent ined segetis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 in front, the 3rd moderate ; frors with truncate conical prominence with raised 

 rim ; vestiture hairy ; tibiae strongly spined ; pro- and meta- thorax with rather 

 spreading crests. Forewing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hindwing with veins 3*4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6*7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. {Scotia). Antenna} cf male bipectinate with moderate branches 

 the apical third serrate. 



A. Hindwing white, the terminal area more or less tinged 



with brown, in female only segetis. 



B. Hindwing more or less suffused with brown, especially 



in female corticea. 



1620. Euxoa segetis, Schiff. Wien Verz., pp. 81. 252. f. 3. a. b. (1776) 

 Hiibn Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 147. 

 Noctua prcrcox, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct., f . 359 (1827) nee Linn. 



fcrvida, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 711 (1827). 

 Agrotis simla, Boisd. Gen. and Ind. Meth., p. 109 (1840). 

 dimidia, Zell. Iris. 1847, p. 439. 

 „ sicania, Guen. Noct. 1, p. 275 (1852). 

 marginalia, Wlk. X. 339 (1856). 

 obliviosa, Wlk. X. 340 (1856). 

 aversa, Wlk. X. 345 (1856). 

 correcta, Wlk. X. 345 (1856). 

 „ denticulosa, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. IV., p. 168 (1860). 



conspurcata, Wlk. XXXII, 696 (1865) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. Ill, 



pi, 146, f. 7 a. 

 repulsa, Wlk. XXXII, 696 (1865). 

 certificata, Wlk. XXXII, 697 (1865). 

 ingrata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) 1, p. 162 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. 



B. M. II., p. 27, pi. 29, f. 9. 

 pallida, Stand Hett. Ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 423. 

 fucosa, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc., 1881, p. 179. 

 lassa, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 444. 

 1621. Euxoa corticea, Schiff. Wien. Verz., 81, 13 (1776) ; Hiibn. Samml. 

 Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 145. 

 Noctua sincera, Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett, 544. 2 (i827). 

 „■ obscura, Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett, 628. 1. 2 (1827). 

 „ transversa, Wlk. X. 354 (1856). 

 Agrotisfraterna, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 116 (1882). 



„ amurensis, Staud,»Rom. Mem. VI, p. 42 (1892). 

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