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rufous to grey, tinged with olive or dark-brown or irrorated with black ; an 

 indistinct, double, curved subbasal line from costa to subinedian fold, with more 

 prominent striga at costa ; a similar antemedial line extending to inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform with pale outlines, the former round or oblique and 

 open above ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, waved, with more prominent 

 strire at costa, oblique to vein 4 and slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; the subterminal line indistinct, double, grey, slightly defined by 

 dark suffusion on inner side and by a prominent double dentate black mark 

 below costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points, Hindwing orange ; some brownish suffusion at base ; 

 a black discoidal lunule ; a subterminal black band with waved edges, broad 

 towards costa, narrowing towards tornus ; the underside with the costal area 

 red suffused with white. 



ab. 1 consequa. Fore wing darker. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Armenia ; Asia Minor ; Syria ; W. Turkistan • 

 Kashmir, Dana ; Punjab, Sultanpur. Exp. 40-40 mill. 



Larca. Greyish ochreous or fuscous ; dorsal line broad, ochreous yellow, with 

 fine black edges ; a subdorsal series of dark fuscous oblong marks with a 

 yellowish-grey line below them ; lateral line pale ; subspiracular line broad, 

 pale ochreous with dark edges ; head pale fuscous with dark markings. Food 

 plants, grasses, Ranunculus, Primula, etc. 

 1653. Agrotis pronuba. 

 1651. Agrotis stentsi, Led. Verb. Zool-bot Ges. Wien. 1853, p. 367, pi. 4, f. 4. 



Ochropleura triangularis, Moore, P.Z.S., 1807, p. 55 

 Habitat. — Siberia ; Turkistan ; Tibet ; Amurl^nd ; Japan ; Kashmir : 

 Punjab ; Sikhim. 



1747. Agrotis onigrum. 

 1651a. Agrotis deraiota. 



Amathes c-nigrum, Hmpsn. Ill, Het. B. M., ix., p. 94, pi. 176, f. 4 

 (Larva), nee Linn. 

 1650. Agrotis flammatra, insert (syns) Agrotis deleta, Koll. Ins. Pers. r 

 p. 53 (1848) ; Agrotis bimaculata, Mill. Cat. Rais. L', Suppl., p. 15 

 (1875). 

 1648«. Agrotis rexalis, Moore, P.Z.S., 1867, p. 55, 



Ochropleura subjmrpurea, Leech. Tran.=. Ent. Sec. 1 900, p. 35. 

 Head and thorax dark-brown mixed with rufous and the scales tipped with 

 blue-grey ; the tegula? sometimes olive-ochreous except at tips ; the meta- 

 thorax with rufous crest ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft tipped with 

 ochreous. Forewing dark-brown suffused with purple-grey ; the costal area 

 ochreous or rufous to the postmedial line ; a double subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold, in which there is a short black streak ; the antemedial line 

 double, waved, excurved above inner margin and with oblique black streak before 

 it in cell ; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black, the former rounded or diamond-shaped, open above, 



