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claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 fuscous centres and grej' annuli defined by black, the former round, 

 a black fascia between them in cell continued beyond the reniform 

 to the postmedial line ; an obscure waved medial line from cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; the subterminal line very indistinct, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale suffused with 

 brown especially on costal and terminal areas ; the veins brown ; 

 cilia white with a brown line through them ; the underside whiter, 

 the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and 

 prominent black apical patch. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing darker. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane (I'imu'r), 1 c? ; N.S.W., Moreton 

 Bay (Diggles), 2 5, type oiitida, Sydney (Di(/gles, Scott, Mathcir), 

 3 d" , $ , type tenebrosa ; VicroKiA, Gisborne (Li/ell), 1 c? , Mel- 

 bourne ( Lucas), 1 5 ; S. Australia (BakeweU), 1 § ; Tasmania, 

 2 $ . E.V2J. 40-50 millim. 



64G. Agrotis ypsilon. 



Fuctua ypsilon, Rott. Naturf. is. p. 141 (177(')); Di'uce, Biul. Ceutr-Ain., 

 Het. 1. p. 281 ; Hiupsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 182; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. G() ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. l.'»l. 



Isoctua siiffusa, Schitf. Wien. Verz. p. 80(1770) ; Fahr. Maiit. Ins. ii. p. 157; 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 147. f. (i ; Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 34. 



Fhalcena idonea. Cram. Pap. Esot. iii. pi. 275 H (1782). 



liomhyx spinula, Esp. Schinett. iii. pi. hi. ff. 6, 7 (1782). 



Novtua robusta, Blanch. Gay's Cliile, p. 75, pi. 6. f. 9 (1852). 



Agrotis bipurs, VVlk. x. 334 (185(5). 



Agrotis frivola, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mou. iv. p. 169 (1860). 



Agrotis suffusa, var. p><-'l>oli, Bert. Bull. Ent. Ital. vi. pp. 139-146, pi. iii. 



Agrotis aureolum, Scbaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc vi. p. 10/ (1898). 



AgrotU gpsllo)!, (^ . 



Head and thorax red-brown, the latter suffused with fuscous ; 

 frons with blackish bar above ; back of head with two black spots ; 

 tegulae with brown and black medial band ; pectus whitish ; tibia3 

 and tarsi ochreous white and black; abdomen grej--brown. Fore 

 wing ochreous irrorated with brown ; the costal area suffused with 

 fuscous brown, and often the whole wing to the postmedial line ; a 

 double, waved, subbasal line from costa to the submedian fold; a 



