372 NOCTTJID^. 



651. Agrotis cissigma. (Plate LXYIII. flg. 31.) 



Nodua cissigma, Men. Sclirenck's Eeise iin Amurlande, p. 58, pi. 4. f. (> 



(1859) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. 

 Agrotis umhra, Staud. Eoiu. Mem. vi. p. 411 (1802). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the head and 

 tegulae mostly grey ; palpi black, whitish at tips ; abdomen grey- 

 brown ; pectus and legs mostly fuscous. Fore wing red-brown 

 suffused with purplish grey ; a waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a dark antemedial line dentate from costa to 

 median uervure, then waved ; stigmata obsolete ; a diffused medial 

 shade excurved at middle ; the postmedial line dentate, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique ; 

 the subterminal line defined by fuscous suffusion on its inner side, 

 angled outwards at middle : some pale points on costa towards apex ; 

 a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing yellowish suffused 

 with brown, with slight discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial 

 and subterminal lines more distinct on underside ; a fine terminal 

 line. 



Hah. W. Siberia, Urals, 1^,1$; Amueland, 1 c? , 1 5 ; 

 CoREA. Exp. 40 millim. 



652. Agrotis violaris. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 32.) 



Agrotis violaris, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 353, pi. 7. f. 59 

 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Koct. N. Am. p. 6C). 



S . Head and thorax violaceous grey pencilled with red-brown ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi black with pale rings; abdomen grey, 

 thickly irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing violaceous grey, 

 rather sparsely irrorated with red-brown, the area between the 

 medial and postmedial lines tinged with brown ; the costa dark ; 

 the antemedial line brown, angled outwards below costa and above 

 inner margin and incurved between those points ; claviform obsolete ; 

 orbicular almost obsolete, with slight brownish annulus, round ; an 

 obscure medial shade angled at lower angle of cell ; reniform with 

 pale annulus defined by brown and with some fuscous in lower 

 part; the postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to vein G, then inwardly oblique ; the 

 subterminal hne very indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7. Hind 

 wing whitish, the veins and a discoidal lunule brown ; an indistinct 

 curved postmedial line with the area beyond it brown ; the under- 

 side with the costal and terminal areas irrorated Avith brown ; the 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line distinct. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle States, 1 <5 , Pennsylvania. Exp. 42 

 millim. 



*653, Agrotis dapsilis. 



)te. Bull. Gecl. Surv. vi. p. 

 >7. 



S . Pale ash-grey irrorated with black. Fore wing with the 



Agrotis dapsilis, Grote, Bull. Gecl. Surv. vi. p. 582 (1883) ; Smith. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 67. 



