AGROTIS. 



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660. Agrotis castanea. 



Noctua castanea, Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 187. ff. 8-11 (1795) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 137. 

 Noctua IcBvis, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 207 (1804). 

 Noctua neglecta, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f, 160 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fi-. 



vi. pi. 78. f. 4 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 154, pi. 21. f. 2. 

 Noctua cerasina, Frr. Neue Beiti-. iv. pi. 312 (1840); Herr.-SehafF. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 131-3. 

 Noctua xa-nthe, Woodf. Ent. Mag. xxxvii. p. 116 (1901). 



Head and thorax bright red, the hair grey-tipped ; palpi black- 

 brown, pale at tips ; abdomen fuscous grey, the anal tuft fulvous, 

 the ventral surface reddish. Fore wing chestnut-red ; an indistinct 

 blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, incurved at 

 costa ; an indistinct waved antemedial line, incurved in cell and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly 

 defined by brownish, the former small or well developed, rounded, 

 the latter with fuscous mark on its lower part ; the postmedial line 

 indistinct, minutely dentate, and produced to points on the veins, 

 l)ent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the 

 subterminal line indistinct, greyish, slightly defined by fuscous on 

 inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of points often present. Hind Aving 

 fuscous brown with an ochreous gloss, the cilia reddish ; the under- 

 side ochreous, thickly irrorated with brown except towards base of 

 inner area, the costal area tinged with red. 



Ab. 1. neglecta. Ground-colour pale grey-brown ; the stigmata 

 well defined. 



Ab. 2. xanthe. Ground-colour yellow. 



Ab. 3. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with fuscous. — 

 Syria. 



Hub. Beitaix, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; Fraxce, Sand 

 Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria ; HuxeARV ; Switzerland ; 

 Spain, Catalonia ; Italy ; Russia, Livonia, Leech Coll. ; Syria. 

 Exp. 36-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 102 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 100, pi. 148, f. 2. 



Pale green or dull bi'own with dark irroration ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale ; spiracular line broad, whitish ; head brown or greenish. 

 Food-plant : Calhaia. 10-5. 



Sect. V. Antennte of male ciliated. 



A. Fore femora and tibiae of male fringed ou outer side witb thick masses of 

 hair, pectus with masses of flocculent hair and scales. 



661. Agrotis temperata. 



Amathes temjjcrata, Scliaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 220 (1894) ; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 485, pi. 94. f. 10. 



Head brownish mixed with black ; palpi black, pale at tips ; 

 tegultc deep black except at extremities ; thorax grey irrorated with 

 brown; fore legs purplish, with the tufts of hair in male blackish ; 



