NOCTUIDiE. — AGROTIS. lit 



No. sufTusa. Wien. Verz. — Ag. sufFusa. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 66. No. 6085. — 

 Ph. Bo. spinula. Don. x. pi. 345. / 2, 3. 



Head and thorax fuscous; anterior wings griseous, clouded with fuscous to- 

 wards the costa, with a very obsolete geminated dusky striga towards the 

 base, to which the teliform stigma is united, as in its congeners, and a second 

 very slightly bent behind the stigmata; on the hinder margin is an irregular 

 fuscous band, anterior to which are two elongate-trigonate lineolae, whitish 

 at the base interiorly, and black at the apex : the anterior stigma is dusky in 

 the centre, with a black margin ; the posterior dusky, margined anteriorly 

 with griseous and black, and posteriorly with black, having an elongate- 

 acute black spine-like streak pointing to the hinder margin : posterior wings 

 whitish, with a violaceous tinge, with the nervures and marginal hues dusky. 



Var. |S. Steph. Catal. I. c. — Anterior wings very dark fuscous, with a cloud at 

 the base, and the hinder margin pale griseous-ash, the stigmata nearly ob- 

 literated, but the spine-like process to the posterior stigma, and the acute 

 lineolae towards the hinder margin, as usual : posterior wings with the ner- 

 vures very dark fuscous. 



Caterpillar ashy-gray; found at the roots of grass in IMay, and changing towards 

 the end of the month to a brownish pupa : the imago appears in June and 

 July. 



Found occasionally at Birch and Darenth woods in July: but I 

 am not aware of any other locality. " Very common in June and 

 September, near Epping, in some seasons." — Mi: H. Doubleday. 



fSp. 6. annexa. Plate 22. f. 2. Alls anticis griseo-juscis, costw basi margi- 

 neque postici •pallidioribus, stigmatibus lineold nigrd conjunctis. (Exp. alar. 

 1 unc. 8 lin.) 



Ag. annexa. Ochsenheimer. — Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 66. No. 6086. 



Head and thorax pale griseous-brown, anterior wings with a broad marginal 

 band of the same hue reaching to the posterior stigma, the rest of the wing 

 of a deeper brown, with the hinder margins rather paler; at the base, 

 dividing as it were the two colours, is a longitudinal dusky streak ; and on 

 the hinder margin are two or three lineolae of a similar colour; the an- 

 terior stigma is pale, with a dusky centre, and the posterior rather slender, 

 also dusky in the centre, with a pale margin ; they are connected together by 

 a broad black fasciola ; the teliform stigma is rather obsolete, and behind the 

 posterior one is an arcuated striga of pale spots: the posterior wings are 

 pearly white, with the nervures and margins slightly fuscescent. 



Of this remarkably distinct species *, three specimens only have 



* The Noctua subterranea of Haworth, but not of Fabricius, which is a native 

 of South America, and evidently very distinct. Without entering into the 

 broad question of specific distinctions, which 1 have elsewhere discussed, I may 



