THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XX.] DECEMBEK, 1887. [No. 295. 



AGROTIS FENNICA. 

 By N. F. DoBR^E. 



As the information in all such works as I have read, whether 

 English or Continental, regarding this rare insect is very meagre, 

 and the descriptions of it hardly any better, all apparently copied 

 from one another, anything new regarding it will interest. 



I have for years sought for it fruitlessly in Petersburg, 

 Finnland, and Stockholm, where it is not known to occur, so far 

 as I could learn, and also in the many Continental price-lists that 

 are sent me annually. I have also written for it to dealers in 

 Montreal and Quebec without success, and I failed to find it in 

 the entomological collection sent over for the late Colonial 

 Exhibition in London by the Montreal Society. 



My friend the late Mr. George Norman, who, in 1874 and 

 1875, spent two seasons entomologising in Canada on the borders 

 of the lakes near Niagara, found it there of excessive rarity. He 

 got but a single one himself at rest on palings in the month of 

 August, and, though the object of his particular research, he 

 could only acquire two more from resident collectors he met. 

 All these specimens are males, and agree well with the drawings 

 in Newman and Herrich-Scbaffer. 



I have now quite lately received it from Western Siberia, and 

 seem at last to have traced it to its home. My correspondent, 

 who, I may say in parenthesis, is the curator of a German 

 museum and an experienced entomologist, after a five years' 

 sojourn in the neighbourhood of Wladiwostock on the Amoor 

 Biver, chiefly made for entomological purposes, writes me: — 



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