388 NOCXTTIDiE. 



Hah. Britain, England, Leech Coll., N. Wales (SaJvar/e) ; France, 

 Sand Coll. ; Denmark {DoJdmann) ; Germany, Zcller & Fiey Colls. ; 

 ^AvnzEKLAND ; Spain; Italy; Scandinavia; IIussia, Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Greece {Merlin) ; W. & C. Asia ; Egypt, Cairo 

 (Flower) ; Punjab, Dharmsala (HocHng), 1 2 • Kvj). 52-60 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 100; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 26, pi. 140. 



Pale g-reen to dull brown ; dorsal line pale ; a subdorsal series of 

 blackish longitudinal marks on somites 4-11, with a pale line below 

 them ; subspiracular line ])ale ; head pale brown witli dark markings. 

 Food-plants ; Brassica, Taraxacum, Rumex, etc. 9-5. 



G68. Agrotis collaris. (Plate LXIX. fig. 30.) 



Agrotis collaris, Grote & Rob. Tnms. Am. Eut. Soc. i. p. 348, pi. 7. f. 53 

 (1SG8) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74. 



Palpi brown, their extremity and frous whitish ; vertex of head 

 and teguhT black ; thorax purple-grey, the scales tipped with pale 

 grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen fuscous irrorated with grey. Fore 

 wing dark purple-grey irrorated with brown ; a subbasal grey line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; a grey antemcdial line defined by 

 brown on outer side and slightly bent inwards to costa ; claviform 

 small, more or less completely outlined in black ; orbicular and 

 reniform purplish grey with pale grey annuli, the former oblique V- 

 shaped, open above, the latter constricted at middle ; quadrate black 

 spots in tlic cell before and between the stigmata ; a medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line grev, 

 defined by brown on inner side, curved from costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; an inwardly diffused dark subterminal line angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle; an indistinct series of terminal 

 points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside with discoidal lunule and traces of curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., iVew York, 2 c5' , 1 $ , New Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts, Colorado (CoclxreU), 2 J . Exj). 36miUim. 



GG9. Agrotis stentsi. (Plate LXIX. fig. 31.) 



Agroiis sfciif-/, Led. Vei-h. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 367, pi 4. f. 4 ; 



Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 142. 

 Ochrophura triangularis, Mooi-e, P. Z. S. lSG7,p. 55; Hmpsu. Motbs Ind 



ii. p. 189. 



Head and thorax pale purple-brown ; vertex of head and basal 

 lialf of tegulaj ochreous white, the terminal half of tegulae with semi- 

 circular black patch ; fore tibi;c and tarsi ochreous white above ; 

 abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing purple-brown to nearly black ; 

 the costal area ochreous white, with slight dark streaks on it to the 

 postmedial line, extending to just below cell at base ; a black streak 

 in base of submedian fold expanding into a triangular subbasal 

 patch ; a i)ale sinuous autemedial line from costal area to inner 

 margin, with a blacki.sh point on its outer edge representing the 

 claviform ; orbicular ochreous or ochreous-white, triangular, confluent 

 with costal area, defined by black and emitting a streak below the 



