196 THE entomologist's KECORD. 



much more slender than the trux as figured by Hilbner. One figure 

 has short square wings and the apices of the forewings in both figures 

 are much too sharp, and in one figure the anal angle is also much too 

 sharply angled for the tnu- of Hiibner. Placed side by side these two 

 sets of figures difier absolutely in colour and markings, the latter being 

 in different positions, of difi^erent size and different in shape. These 

 remarks also apply equally when the comparison is made with the 

 insect we now know as Innigera. In his letterpress Freyer says that 

 his trtiiv is near Hiibner's se//ctu)i>. 



After the death of Hiibner, Geyer continued the issue of plates 

 Sarnmlinig, ear. Schm., and about the year 1833 issued plate 163 on 

 which the figures 768, 769, 770 were labelled as Agrotis tni.r. No one 

 would take these figures as representing any form of lunijiera. The 

 shape of the wings in the figures are not so divergent from bnwjera 

 as in the other figures we have examined. Fig. 769 is of an almost 

 uniform green tint with prominent darker markings along the sub- 

 marginal area of the hind margin of the forewings, and with a 

 similarly coloured mark on the costa near the apex, together with a 

 row of a few black dots inside the hind margin. There is a fairly 

 emphasised discoidal mark or remnant of the reniform stigma, and a 

 few dark costal marks, the rest of the wing area is unmistakably 

 green or olive green. Fig. 768 shows a double row of dots in the area 

 before the fringe of the hind margin of the forewings. The general 

 coloration is of a bright brown, the reniform stigma is large and 

 blackish- brown in colour. Both these figures are said to be <? insects. 

 Fig. 770 is said to be $ , but has markings so varied and ground- 

 colour so light as almost to preclude the suggestion that it is either 

 trux or liiniciera, even if the markings were comparable. All the 

 Noctuid markings, stigmata, blotches, submarginal lines, sub- basal 

 lines, costal streaks, dots, etc., do not agree in size, shape, position and 

 colour, with those of Innigera, nor do they agree with those of 

 Hiibner's trux, as previously figured. The hindwings of all the 

 figures are dirty white, to shades of brown in both sexes, darker in 

 the female. As before stated, Innigera is of a soft silky grey colour, 

 and there is no element of green or olive perceptible or suggestible in 

 any example I have seen ; the hindwings of the males are not dirty 

 white, but pure white. 



In the same year Freyer, in his Nene Beitrdge, vol. ii., pit. 84, 

 p. 63, figures and describes a Noctuid, which he names terranea, and 

 which subsequent authors have put down as a form of trnx. As 

 regards colour, he says it is comparable to Taeniocawpa stabilis, and 

 in size and shape to segetnm and exclamationis. To us the colour of 

 the figure is more like that of Noctna oleracea, with a very strongly 

 marked submarginal whitish transverse line, and clear white-margined 

 stigmata. In no way is it comparable to Hiibner's figures, nor to 

 Freyer's own figures in his Beitriige of 1829. 



About the same time Boisduval, in his Icones, gave three figures of 

 Agrotis trnx, on Plate 79. Fig. 4 is named trnx, and figs. 5 and 6 

 are termed varieties. In fig. 4 the orbicular is fairly conspicuous, as 

 a dark spot and the reniform is also shown, but the claviform is non- 

 existent. The general colour is dark grey, with a transverse brown 

 shade midway between the two expressed stigmata ; the fringe of the 

 outer margin is also of the same brown tinge. The hindwings are 



