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NOCTUID.E. 



the hair on pectus pale yellow ; abdomen grey, irrorated with 

 fuscous and tinged with fuscous on dorsum, the anal tuft ochreous. 

 Fore wing grey, striated with dark brown and suffused, especially 

 towards costa and subterminal line, with ferruginous brown ; traces 

 of a curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the ante- 

 medial brown line excurved below costa, then slightly sinuous 

 claviform with its upper edge defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform whitish, the former open above ; the cell before and below 

 the orbicular and between its lower part and reniform deep black ; 



Fig. 73. — Agrotis temperata, (^ . 



a medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin : the post- 

 medial line rather indistinct, highly curved and minutely waved, 

 the area beyond it deep ferruginous to the subterminal line, which 

 is angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; the terminal 

 area grey, irrorated and striated with dark brown ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia with dark line through them. Hind 

 wing semiliyaline whitish, strongly suffused with brown especially 

 towards costa and termen ; the cilia pale with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside pale irrorated with brown, and the costal area 

 tinged with brown, a black discoidal point and postmedial line on 

 costal area. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Ti-?(/?77o), 1 cf : Costa 'Rica (Underwood), 

 Godman-Salvin Coll., 1 2 ; Brazil, Rio Janeiro. Exj^., c? 36, 

 5 40 millim. Type t in Coll. iSchaus, 



B. Fore legs aud pectus of male normal. 



a. Foi-e wing witli the apex produced and acute ; claspers of male thickly 

 tufted with hair. 



C62. Agrotis costalis. 

 Agroiis costalis, Wlk. x. 343 (1856). 



Head and thorax dark red-brown more or less strongly mixed 

 with black ; palpi blackish except at tips ; tibiae and tarsi blackish, 

 with pale rings ; abdomen pale fuscous, the hair at sides and 

 extremity tinged with rufous. Fore wing deep red-brown, more or 

 less strongly suffused with black, the costal area ochreous, in one 

 specimen rufous to near apex ; the subbasal line represented by a 

 black striga from costa ; the antemedial line hardly traceable except 

 on costal area, angled at median nervure, oblique towards costa and 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform small, the former elliptical, 



