47 



597° Brighton, 1885 (Salvage). 



Ground colour blackish-grey ; basal area and the ner- 

 vures whitish-brown ; approaching ab. venosa Tutt. 

 1052 Forres, bred 1873 (Norman). 



Ground colour pale whitish-brown ; stigmata very 

 distinct ; costal region dark brown. 

 6348 Nicolajefsk, Amurland, 1881-1886 (Graeser's expedition). ^ 



Costal region suffused with dark blackish-brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata indistinct. (?) 

 var. obscura Frey. 

 ♦6488 Austria, 1887 (Staudinger). 



Agrotis cinerea Hah. 



3376 Brighton, 1876 (Salvage). 



Ab. pallida Tutt. Ashy-grey ; the transverse median 



shade obsolete. Cf. Barrett, Plate 126, fig. 2 b. 



3377 Brighton, 1876 (Salvage). 

 3378 



3384 »> i> » 



3383 „ „ " \ 



4936 „ 1881 „ J 



The dark median shade extended along mner margm 

 towards the base. 



3692 Brighton, bred 1877 (Salvage). 

 3691 



3690 „ „ „ I 



3693 .. .. » / , , , , 



The dark median shade takes up almost the wnole 



space between the first and second lines. 

 ♦6443 Bred from ovum, viii. 1887 (Salvage). 



*6444 „ » » 



*6445 ,, „ „ 



Agrotis cursorsa Hufn. 



3248 Ipswich, 1877 (Wheeler). \ 



4573 Spurn, E. Yorks., viii. 1880 f. J 



Intermediate between the type and 5365. 

 4572 Spurn, E. Yorks., viii. 1880 t. 



4579 .' " t- 



Brown, darker than the type. 

 4578 Spurn, E. Yorks., viii. 1880 t- 



Ab. mixta Fab. Very pale whitish-grey ; markings 

 fairly distinct. 



4574 Spurn, E. Yorks., viii. 1880 f- \ 



Ab. OChrea Tutt. Yellowish-brown ; the orbicular 

 and reniforrri stigmata, median nervure, and costal 

 streak paler. Cf. Barrett, Plate 129, figs, ib, id. 

 6179 Shgo, 1886 (Russ). \ 

 6178 „ „ „ J 



Brown forms, darker than the type. 

 5365 Unst, vii. 1883 (McArthur). 



A very pretty form, strongly resembling the Forres 

 forms of A. tritici (555, 556). Ground colour 

 reddish-brown, but the two upper stigmata, costal 

 streak, median nervure, and clouds along the hind 

 margin and inner margin pale ashy-grey. Cf. 

 ' Entomologist,' 1884, Plate i, fig. 3. 



5341 Spurn, E. Yorks., 1883 f- 



Ab. ochrea. [Wings at rest]. 



5342 Spurn, E. Yorks., 1883 f- 



Type form. [Wings at rest]. 

 *5570 X. 1883 (McArthur). 



[Colour gone]. 



