376 NOCTUID^, 



Ab, 1. edda. Much darker; head, thorax, and abdomen grey- 

 brown ; fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown ; hind wing 

 brown. — Shetland Is. 



Ab. 2, limhala. Fore wing suffused with blue-green, the terminal 

 area darker. — France, Gironde. 



Hah. Britain, Shetland (Salvage), Scotland, Forres {Salvage), 

 England, Leech Coll., Ireland, Derry (Salvage) ; France, Sand Coll. : 

 Belgium ; Germany ; Switzerland ; Tirol ; N. Spain ; Italy ; 

 Denmark, Jutland ; Sweden. E.vjy. 30-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 104 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 32, pi. 141. f. 1. 



Light brown, with dark irroration on sides ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale with dark edges ; spiracular line pale ochreous ; head 

 pale brownish with dark markings. Food-plants : Cytisus, Rumex, 

 Stellaria etc. 9-6. 



659. Agrotis docilis. 



Agrotis docilis, Grote, Bull. Geo). Surv. vi. p. 2o9 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 68. 

 Agrotis ingeniciUata,^m\ih,'B\iW. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 216 (1890); id. 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. 



Head and thorax clothed with dark brown, black, and white scales 

 and hair ; tegulse with the basal half whitish, defined by a black 

 medial line ; abdomen grey and brown. Fore wing bluish gi'ey, 

 irrorated and in places suffused with brow n ; a double, waved, 

 brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the anteraedial 

 line double, waved, bent inwards at subcostal nervurc and angled 

 outwards above inner margin ; clavifbrm large, brownish, and 



Fig. 72. — Agrotis docilis, S- 1- 



defined by black ; orbicular and reniform grey, with some brown 

 scales in centre and defined by black, the former large, oblique, 

 elliptical, touching the antemedial line below costa, the latter large ; 

 the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line irregularly 

 dentate, defined by brown suffusion and with brown patch at costa, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 ; a fine waved black terminal line. 

 Hind wing pale, suffused with brown especially towards termen ; 

 cilia wliitish, with brown line through them ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with brown; a slight discoidalspot and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow, Bruce, Gockerell), 1^,3$, type. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



