AGKOTIS. 387 



narrow towards toruus ; the nndcrside with, the costal area suffused 

 with red. 



Ab. 1. adsequa. Paler and more uniform in colour. 



Ab. 2. prosequa. Fore wing with the rnarkings more prominent. 



Ab. 3. curtisi. Smaller; fore wing suffused with black or red, 

 the markings distinct ; hind wing often more or less suffused with 

 fuscous. — Shetland Is. 



Ab. 4. hergensis. .Fore wing partly suffused with fuscous. — 

 Norway. 



Ilah. BpaiAiN, Shetland Is., Hebrides, Leech Coll., Forres (Salvage), 

 England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland [Salvage) ; FKA^■cE, Leech Coll. ; 

 Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Swixzekland, Leech Coll. ; N. Spain ; 

 Algiers ; Canaries ; Scandinavia ; Rttssia, Livonia ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minor ; Syria, Leech Coll. Eat2^. 38-50 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 101 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 17, pi. inil 



Pale greyish ochreous to brown ; dorsal line faint ; subdorsal line 

 brown, with longitudinal marks on somites 10, 11, pale-edged below, 

 tending to bo connected by a bar on somite 11 ; a spiracular series 

 of dark brown obliijue marks ; spiracular line pale, sometimes tinged 

 with pink ; head light brown, with darker markings. Food-plants : 

 SteUaria, SaJir, Eulus, Rumex, etc. 9-5. 



667. Agrotis promiba. 



Kocfua pronuha, Linn. Svsh Xat. x. p. 512 (1758); Esp. Sc-liiuett. iv. 



pi. 1U± f. 1 ; Hiibn. Eur! Schmett.. Noct. f. 10.3 ; Godt Lep. Fr. v. pi. 58 ; 



Hnipsn. Motli3 Iiid. ii. p. 190 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. 

 Kociiia innuha, Trei(. Schmett. Eur. v. 1, p. 2G5 (1823); Stepli. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 104. 

 Agrotis hoegii, Herr.-Scbaff. Neue Schmett. ff. 117, 118 (1850). 



Head and tegula) white mixed with dark brown, tegula? with 

 brown medial line and dark tips ; palpi dark with white tips ; 

 thorax daik brown ; tibial spurs and tarsi with i)ale rings ; abdomen 

 brownish ochreous, the ventral surface irrorated with grey. Foro 

 wing pale reddish brown to dark brown, irroratcd and suffused in 

 parts with grey and with dark stria} ; a double curved subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; a more or less indistinct double 

 waved antemcdial line ; orbicular and reniform with pale annuli, the 

 former rather oblique, ellijjtical, often filled in with grey, the latter 

 with its centre or lower part fuscous ; the pobtmedi.il line indistinct, 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at diseal fold, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; the subtcrminal line pale, with two black 

 spots before it below costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurvcd 

 at middle ; some dark points on termen. Hind wing orange ; the 

 costal area tinged with fuscous ; a nearly terminal black band with 

 Avaved edges, broad at costa, narrowing and not reaching torims ; 

 ilio underside with the costal area pinkish grey irroratcd with black, 

 and with a rufous postmcdial line on it. 



Ab. 1. Paler and with the thorax concolorous. 



Ab. 2. /(0(v/j. Smaller; hind wing with .small diseal Idack spot, 



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