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NOCTUIDiE. 



1494. Tiracola plagiata. 



Agrotis plagiata, Wlk. xi. 740 (1857) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 34. pi. 148, 

 ff. 1, 1 a ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 282 ; Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. 

 i. p. 286, pi. xxvii. f. 14. 



Agrotis plagifera,'W\'k. xi. 741 (1857). 



Agrotis spectahilis, Wlk. xxxii. 704 (1865). 



Agrotis grandirena, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-Blatt Eegensb. 1868, p. 149. 



Head and thorax varying from ochraceous or greyish, sometimes 

 with an olive tinge, to ferruginous ; palpi black except at tips ; 

 some black scales near upper edge of patagia ; tibiae irrorated with 

 black ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, the 

 ventral surface rufous irrorated with black, a sublateral series of black 

 points. Fore wing varying from pale ochreous or greyish to rufous, 

 brown or purple-brown, sometimes tinged with olive, and sparsely 

 irrorated uith black ; subbasal line sometimes represented by black 

 points on costa and in cell, the antemedial line by black points on 

 costa and veins sometimes connected by a faint waved line, excurved 

 from costa to vein 1 ; claviform absent ; orbicular represented by part 



Fig. 51. — Tiracola plagiata, cj". \. 

 (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



of the whitish annulus or absent ; reniform large, whitish defined by 

 black and its centre defined by black, its lower part filled in with 

 fuscous or wholly filled in with fuscous ; a more or less prominent 

 medial line, oblique from costa to median nervure, then waved ; 

 postmedial line double and oblique from costa to vein 7, then repre- 

 sented by a series of black points on the veins sometimes connected 

 by a crenulate line, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; in the 

 darker specimens, the apical part of costal area paler or grey; 

 subterminal line ochreous defined on each side by brown, indistinct 

 towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7, incurved to vein 4, 

 excurved to submedian fold and bent outwards to tornus, a dark 

 point on its inner side above vein 5, the area beyond it often darker 

 except at apex ; a terminal series of black points usually present ; 

 cilia with fine ochreous line at base, some black in the crenulations. 

 Hind wing whitish more or less suffused with brown, the terminal 

 area darker ; cilia whitish; the underside whitish, the costal area 

 tinged with brown aud irrorated with black, a slight discoidal point, 



