AGKOTIS. 385 



IP. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 

 a^^. Fore wing with rut'ous annuli to the stigmata, ohlata. 

 b^". Fore wing with pale aunuli to the stigmata, 

 a". Fore wing with the claviform elongate, 



narrow jJnvofincfa, 



6"-. Fore wing with the clavifonn minute collina. 



h*. Fore wing with black patch below the cell beyond 

 subbasal line. 

 a^. Fore wing with tlie antemedial line oblique, 

 sinuous. 

 a}°. Fore wing with tlie cell black between the 

 stigmata, 

 a'^ Fore wing with the orliicular large, open 

 above, 

 a". Fore wing with the lines distinctly defined 



bj grey mdancholica,. 



//^. Fore wing with the lines indistinct mrcpiana. 



h^K Fore wing with the orbicular small, o^xmi 



above (risignata. 



c^'. Fore wing with the orbicular small, entire... hoiisa. 

 6'". Fore wing with the cell not black between the 



stigmata pdliogramma. 



IP. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique. 

 a}". Fore wing with tiie black patch below the cell 

 not comma-shaped. 

 «". Fore wing with the orbicular open above. 

 (P-. Fore wing with oclireous or grey annuhis 

 to orbicular. 

 «^\ Fore wing with veins 2, 3, 4 defined by 



ochreous to the subterminal line alhifurat. 



h^^. Fore wing with veins 2, 3, 4 defined by 



grey to the subterminal line agalnm. 



b^-. Fore wing with the orbicular fu.scous, veins 



2, 3, 4 not defined by ochreous or grey ... mbstrigata. 

 t^^. Fore wing with the orbicular small, round, 



enti re cxlchs. 



h^°. Fore wing with the black patch below the cell 



comma-shaped Umeria. 



665. Agrotis orbona. 



PhalcPiia orhona, Hiifu. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 304 (1767) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 137. 

 I\oc/na siibsequa, SchiS.Wien. Xerz. p. 79 (177G); Hiibn. Eur. Sclnnett., 



Noct. f. 106; Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 103; Ilerr.-Schafi'. Eur. 



Sehmett. ii. p. 329. 

 Noctua consequa, Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 105 (1827). 

 Agrotis sarmata, Ramb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1871, p. 315. 



Head and thorax pale rufous to grey, tinged with rufous ; abdo- 

 men pale brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface tiJiged with 

 rufous. Fore wing pale rufous to grey, tinged with olive 

 or dark brown or irrorated with black ; an indistinct, double, 

 curved subbasal line from costa lo submedian fold, with more 

 prominent striga at costa, a similar antemedial line extending lo 

 inner margin; orbicular and rcniform willi pale outlines, the 

 former round or oblique and open above; the postiucdial line 

 indistinct, double, waved, with more prominent stria) at costa, oblique 

 to vein 4 and sliglitly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; 



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