AGROTIS. 





657. Agrotis exoleta. (Plate LXIX. fig. 28.) 

 Agrotis cxolefa, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 26. 



6 . Head and thorax dark chocolate, the palpi at tips and lower 

 part of frons ochrcous ; pectus and femora with the hair pink ; legs 

 brown, the tarsi annulated with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous, the 

 ventral surface pink except at extremity. Fore wing olive-yellow ; 

 a purple-brown ])atch at base of costa ; claviform represented by a 

 small rufous spot ; a purplish-brown patch on middle of costa with 

 rufous edges, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge slightly angled 

 below costa, the patch embracing the small orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata w^hich are defined by rufous, the former oblique, elliptical; 

 the postmedial line represented by a slight striga from costa and 

 sometimes some points on the veins ; the subterminal line defined 

 by brown suffusion before and beyond it, slightly angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine waved brown terminal 

 line. Hind wing j-ellowish white, the veins and cilia yellow. 

 Underside of fore wing pale fuscous, the marginal areas and costal 

 area of hind wing irrorated with blood-red. 



Hah. ^\. China, Omei-shan, 4 S , type. Kvp. 38 millim. 



6.58. Agrotis glareosa, 



Noctua qlareosa, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 387, pi. 128. f. 3 (1789) ; Staph. 111. 



Brit. Eat., Haust. ii. p. 1.59, pi. 21. f. 1 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. P. 199 ; Mill. Ic. i. p. 234, pi. 20. ff. 4, 8 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 141.* 

 Noctiut dccevipunctata, Vill. Linii. Ent. ii. ])1. 5. f. 17 (1789). 

 Noctua I-geminum, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 80, pi. 77. f. 6 (lS2(i). 

 Noctua h'ehraica. Hilbu. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 642 (1827) ; Frey. Neu. 



Beitr.iii.pl. 201. ff. 2,3. 

 Agrotis cdda, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 266 (1891). 

 Agrotis limbata, Gouin, Act. Soc. Bordeaux, v. p. 95, pi. iv. f. 5 (1900). 



Head and thorax grey, pencilled with pale broAvn ; palpi dark 

 brown at sides except at tips ; abdomen grey tinged with ochreous 

 brown. Fore wing grey, tinged with rufous and sparsely irrorated 

 with blackish scales : the subbasal line represented by deep rufous 

 spots below costa and median nervure ; the antemedial line pale, 

 excurved towards inner margin, with deep rufous spots on its 

 outer edge below costa and median nervure ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by whitish, the former oblique, somewhat quadrate, open 

 above and below, the cell before and between the stigmata deep 

 rufous, traces of a brownish medial shade from cell to inner margin ; 

 the postmedial line whitish, defined by pale rufous on inner side, 

 oblicpic from costa to vein 7, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the 

 subterminal line whitish, slightly defined by brown on inner side, 

 very slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of dark points usually present. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, the veins and terminal area more or less tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal point and traces of a postmedial line 

 towards costa. 



