392 NOCTTJID^. 



ill and below cell before and between them dark red-brown ; a waved 

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

 medial line indistinct, double, dentate, with a series of black points 

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

 incurved ; a sinuous subterminal line with the area beyond it 

 purplish fuscous. Hind wing yellow-brown ; the underside whitish, 

 with the costal area brown; a discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



$ . Thorax and fore wing dark purple-grey ; hind wing dark 

 brown. 



Ihih. Ceylox, Pundaloya {Green), 1 c?,Maturatta (Mad' wood), 

 1 2 type. E.vj)., 6 ^0, $ 48 raillim. 



Larva. Dorsal area pink ; a broad deep-black subdorsal stripe ; 

 pale yellow lateral stripes of the same width ; sublateral series of 

 black spots; narrow brownish-red stripes below the spiracles ; ventral 

 area irrorated with black ; head and legs pink. Food-plants : 

 Meaisjiermum, Viola, etc. 



G74. Agrotis stupenda. 



Ochrophura stupenda, Bull. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 160 (187S) ; id. 111. Ilct. 



E. M. ii. p. 29, pi. 30. f. 3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. 

 Noctua stupens, Oberth. Et. Eiit. v. p. 75, pi. 7. f. 7 (1880). 



Head black mixed with grey ; palpi ochreous at tips ; tegulse 

 ochrcous tinged with rufous, black at tips ; thorax black suifuscd 

 witli purple; fore tibi;e and tarsi brown above, mid and hind tibiaj 

 ringed with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally suffused with 

 fuscous, ventrally black. Fore wing black, suffused with leaden 

 purple and irroral erl with black, the medial area sometimes rufous 

 towards inner margin, the costal area ochreous to postmedial line ; a 

 subbasal ochreous point in submedian fold with black patch bevond 

 it ; the antemedial line double, filled in Avith ochreous, obsolete on 

 costal area, incurved from cell to above inner margin, where it is 

 angled outwards ; tlie claviform slightly delined by black and with 

 a black patch beyond its extremity ; orbicular and reniform defined 

 by the cell before and between them being black, the former roimded 

 or elliptical, the latter with some ochreous or rufous on its upper 

 ]iaii and with more or less developed black streaks between it and 

 the postmedial line, which is formed by a series of small black 

 lunules with ochreous marks on their outer side, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards 

 again on vein 1, a series of black points beyond it on the veins ; the 

 subterminal line represented by a series of more or less developed 

 ochreous lunules or points with dentate black marks on their inner 

 edge and patch at costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle; a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing ochreous, 

 the terminal tliird suffused witli black ; the underside with curved 

 postmedial line and black suffusion on costal and terminal areas. 



Jfah. Amtjeland, 1 J , Askold I. ; Japan (Jonas, Pryer, ILmhy), 

 1 (5 , 3 2 , type, Oiwake (Pri/er), 2 $ , Kiushiu, 1 (S ; Coeea, Gensan 

 (lio), 1 cJ . ii'.ip. 52-60 m'illim. 



