5b 



*5233 Oldham, xii. 1882 (Rodgers). 



*5432 Britain, 1883 (Watkins and Doncastcr). 



*52i9 Carmarthen, x. 1882 (Wilson). 



*4633 Derby, xii. 1883 (Hutchinson). 



DRAWER XVIII. 



Agrotis candeEarum 5/a^^^. ^candelisequa Hah. 



221 1 Germany, 1874 (Staudinger). 



Almost unicolorous, with the large stigmata showing 

 slightly paler than the ground colour, and with thrci^ 

 dark costal spots. [The left hind wing slightly 

 broken] . 

 2214 Germany, 1874 (Staudinger). 

 2212 

 2213 

 *5449 South Germany, 1883 (Staudinger). 



Dull brown, with sub-dorsal rows of dark purplish 

 wedge-shaped spots. 



Agrotis ashworthii DouU. 



Whether this insect is entitled to specific rank is doubt- 

 ful. Mr. Dobree says : — ' It is generally admitte.i 

 to be merely an illustration of the melanism, so 

 commonly occurring in Britain, of common Con- 

 tinental species, and by no means entitled to rank 

 as a separate species ' (Letter to Mr. Tutt). This 

 makes it an insular variety of the preceding specie.^, 

 and certainly, notwithstanding the remarks of 

 Barrett (Vol. III., page 384), the resemblance 

 between the two forms is striking. But the larvae 

 as here represented are distinct. 



6755 North Wales, 1889 (Salvage's expedition). 



4542 Bred 1880 (Meek). 



4543 



3715 1876 (Jackson — came from Gregson). 

 *5566 1884 (McArthur). 

 *5565 „ ,, 



*454i 1880 (Meek). 



Colour and markings as the preceding, but the dailc 

 spots much squarer in shape. 



Agrotis chaldaica Boisd. 



6656 Siberia, 1888 (Staudinger). ^ 

 6655 „ „ „ ? 



Agrotis depuncta Linn. . 



724 Forres, viii. 1871 f. 



727 „ „ t- 



726 „ „ f. 



6763 Sligo, 1889 (Salvage's expedition). 



Ground colour paler, and without the red tinge of th;^ 

 other specimens. 



5490 Central France, 1883 (Staudinger). '^ 



5491 „ „ „ / 



Ground colour paler than the Forres form above, but 

 with the same reddish-brown tinge. 



