374 KocTiriDiP:. 



open above, connected or separate from the white on median 

 nervure ; reniform with fuscous centre, irrorated with white, and 

 white annulus ; the cell filled in with black-brown before and 

 between the stigmata ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, 

 double, and filled in with pale colour, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, defined by a dark shade on inner side at costa, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, aud dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small dark 

 lunules. Hind wing pale yellowish suffused with fuscous brown, 

 paler towards base ; cilia whitish, pale brown at base ; the under- 

 side whitish, with the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal 

 area suftused with brown, an indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, type t in Coll. Piiugeler. Exp. 42 

 millim. 



65G. Agrotis miisiva. 



Nocfua mia^ira. Hiibn. Ear. Schniett.. Noct. f. 118 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 

 ii. p. 212, pi. 64 ; Stcph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 130 ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 143. 



Head and thorax pale purplish, tlie hairs tipped with grey ; 

 teguhie whitish at base, chocolate-brown at tips ; fore tibiae and 

 tarsi whitish above, mid and hind tibice dark brown. Fore wing 

 red-brown with a purplish tinge, paler towards termeu ; the costal 

 area ochreous white to postmedial line, with the veins on it streaked 

 with white ; a black-brown patch below base of cell connected with 

 base by a streak ; a rather indistinct double, waved, antemedial line 

 from cell to inner margin ; claviform minute, indistinct, greyish ; 

 the lower part of cell dark brown, defining the V-shaped yellowish- 

 white orbicular which is open above; reniform fuscous grey, with 

 whitish annulus defined by black at sides ; the postmedial line 

 indistinct, double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a fuscous patch with pale 

 points on it on costal area before the subterminal lino, which is 

 indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 defined on inner side by some pale points ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark points. Hind Aving white, the veins and terminal area 

 tinged with ochreous ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with reddish brown. 



Hah. GERMiSY, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Frey Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Leech Coll. ; Hungary ; Hitssia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus ; Siberia, Zeller Coll., Altai, Zeller Coll. ; W. Tur- 

 kestan, Fergana ; Ala Tau, Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; Mongolia, 

 Changai Mts. ; Amur ; Kenxei. Exp. 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Rogenhofer, Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxv. p. 790 (1875). 



Head yellow-brown Avith dark markings and with some pale hairs ; 

 body dark reddish j'ellow, marbled with dark grey, forming some 

 oblique subdorsal marks ; dorsal and lateral lines dark ; ventral 

 surface greyish yellow. Food-plants : Arahis hirsuta and Taraxacum 

 officinale. 4-5. 



