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line double, minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins and with 

 black strigaon its inner edge at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line greyish, slightly defined by brown 

 on inner side and by an oblique black bar from costa, angled outward at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hindwing brown ; 

 the cilia ochreous ; the underside pale irrorated with brown, a small dark 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Armenia ; Kashmir. Eorp. 26-48 mill. 

 Larva. Ochreous or brown speckled with black ; dorsal line pale ; a subdorsal 

 series of oblique dark marks on somites 4-11, darker and confluent on 11 and 

 followed by a pale bar ; subspiracular line pale ochreous ; head pale brown 

 with blackish markings. Food plants Rumex, Stellaria, Salix, etc. 

 1649. Agrotis junctura. 



1631. Agrotis plecta insert (syns.) Agrotis unimacula. Stand. Stett. Ent. 

 Zeit, 1859, p. 21. 



Agrotis anderssoni, Lampa, Tidskr 1885, p. 54 ; Agrotis glanamacuta 

 Grass. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 321. 

 1639. Agrotis albipennis. 



1639a. Agbotis mandarinella, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. VI. B. M. p. 418, 

 pi. 70, f. 25. 



Graphipliora mandarina, Leech. Trans. Ent. Soc 1900, p. 42 (nee p. 36). 

 Head and thorax bright rufous slightly mixed with grey ; palpi rufous 

 and blackish, pale at tips ; tibire and tarsi blackish mixed with white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface reddish ochreous. Forewing 

 bright rufous suffused with purplish ; a double black sub-basal line from costa 

 to submedian fold, excurved below costa and with a point beyond it in cell ; 

 a double waved antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and more 

 strongly above "inner margin ; claviform small, slightly defined by ochreous and 

 brown ; orbicular and reniform with rufous centres and ochreous annuli defined 

 by rufous, the former small, round ; the postmedial line dentata and produced 

 to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined on inner side towards costa by a 

 dark shade with pale points on it, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points- Hindwing pale 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia pale purplish red, the costal area irrorated with black, 

 a small discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Habitat. — W. China, Pu-tsu-fang, Nitou ; Tibet, Yatung. Exp. 36 mill. 

 1643. Agrotis niveisparsa. 



1635. Agrotis dahli, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. ff. 465, 466 (1827). 

 „ descripta, Hmpsn. Moths. Ind. ii. p. 184. (nee Brem.) 

 Graphipliora canescens, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. ii. p. 28. pi. 30, f. 1 (1878). 

 Orthosia erubescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) v. p. 224 (1880). 

 Cerastis mbdolens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881 p. 181 {$). 

 Chera efflorescens, Hmpsn. III. Het. B. M. viii, p. 78, pi. 145, f. 7 (1891). 



