AGROTIS. 391 



behind it. Body brown, finely mottled on a cream-coloured ground ; 

 cervical shield a shade darker, not shining, unlined. Dorsal line 

 ■whitish, nearly obsolete ; subdorsal brown ; oblique shades forming 

 subdorsal dashes on joints 5 to 9, then becoming cuneiform patches, 

 the pair on joint 12 largest and joined behind by a tine transverse 

 line ; faint oblique lateral shades in reversed direction. Substig- 

 matal band broad, faint, pinkish, o])solcte in the incisures, not 

 very strongly edged, but not sliading into the subvcntral area which 

 is dark. Spiracles white, in blackish areas. A general feeder. — 



H. a. D. 



. G72. Agrotis degeuerata. (Plate LXX. fig. 1.) 



Agrotis clegencrata, Stand. Stett. cut. Zeit. 1880, j). -C); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 139. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; teguUe whitish 

 with brown tips ; palpi except at tips, pectus and legs grey-brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous white, the anal tuft tinged Avitli rufou><, the ven- 

 tral surface with brown. Fore wing brownisli grey, with slijiht 

 dark irroration ; the subbasal line represented by a dark striga from 

 median nervure, defined by grey on outer side, beyond which is a 

 diffused brown patch with a black striga above it in cell ; the ante- 

 medial line indistinct, oblique, slightly sinuous ; orliicular brownish 

 white, V-shapedj open above; reniform brownish white, ill-defined, 

 its centre defined by brown, the cell before and between tlie stigmata 

 olive-brown ; the postmedial line represented by slight points on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subtcrminal 

 line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by a brown bar from costa, 

 then by small spots, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, the area beyond it rather darker ; some dark points on 

 termen. Hind wing ochreous wliite, the apical area and apiral half 

 of termen tinged with fuscous ; tlie underside with the custal urea 

 irrorated witli brown. 



Hah. W. TuKKEsTAN, Issyk-kul, 1 cJ; E. Tuekbstan, Kashgar. 

 Exi^. 38 millim. 



673. Agrotis deraiota. (I'late LXX. fig. 2.) 



Amathcs c-nigrum, Hiiipsn. 111. llet. ix. p. 94, ]il. 17<>. f. 4(1898), nee Linn. 

 Agrotis deraiota, Hiupsn. J. Eomb. N. II. Soc. iW'2,, p. 198, \)\. B. f. 7. 



J . Palpi and frons brown and grey, the latter with black bar ; 

 vertex of head and teguke rufous, the extremity of lattei'and tliorax 

 dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen grey-brown, rufous at 

 extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing ])ale red-bro\\ ii 

 suffused with purplish grey ; the subbasal line double, waved from 

 costa to vein 1 and followed by some black scales in submedian fold ; 

 the antcmedial line double, waved, oblii|ue and bent outwards to 

 inner margin ; claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform purplish 

 grey, their centres defined by brown, the former in the shape of a 

 very open V confluent with the purplish-grey costal area, the area 



