AGROXIS. 



393 



*G75. Agrotis mysteca. (Plate LXX. fig. 3.) 

 Carncades mizteca, Scliaus, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 226 (1894). 



5 . Head rufous slightly mixed with white ; teguliB ochrcous ai 

 base, shading to white before the large semicircular black terminal 

 patch ; thorax purple-brown mixed with white ; abdomen red- 

 brown, the ventral surface irrorated with ochreous. Fore wing 

 purple-brown ; the costal area yellowish white to the postmedial 

 line ; a black patch below base of cell ; a double antemedial lino 

 from cell to inner margin, incurved to vein 1, then excurved ; clavi- 

 form with its upper edges defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 purple-brown, with a few white scales forming the annuli, the cell 

 before, between, and above them black, the orbicular round, the 

 reniform with its outer edge defined by black scales; a double 

 waved postmedial line, sliglitly bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line represented by 

 diffused patches of grey scales mixed with a few black ones on its 

 inner edge, more prominently black towards costa. Hind wing white, 

 suffused with reddish brown towards margins, the veins browniish, 

 the cilia yellowish with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 with small discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of striae on 

 the veins. 



Bab. Mexico, Jalapa, type t $ in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 40 millim. 



676. Agrotis flanimatra. 



Noctna flammatra, Schiff. ^Yien. Verz. ]). SO (177G) ; ITiibn. luir. SL-hinett., 

 Noct. f. 124 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. ii. p. 109, pi. GO. f. 4 ; Ilinpsii. iioths lud. 

 ii. p. 189 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. 



Aqrotii delcta, Koll. Ins. Pers. p. 53 (1848). 



Agrotis basiclavis, Wlk. x, p. o4G (18."iG). 



Agrotis himaculata, Mill. Cat. rais. pt. 2, Suppl. p. 15 (1875). 



Head and thorax grey-brown tinged with purplish red ; \rA\)i 

 dark brown at sides except at tips ; tegulaj with semicircular black- 

 brown patch ; tarsi with pale rings to the joints ; abdomen pale 

 grey -brown. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with purpli.sh red ; the 

 costal area usually pale to middle or postmedial line ; the subbasal 

 line represented by slight double striae from costa ; a black streak 

 in base of submedian fold, expanding bc3-ond the subbasal line ; 

 the antemedial line double, waved, almost obsolete on costal area; 

 claviform with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform brownish grey, the former rounded, open above, 

 defined by black below, the latter defined by black on inner side, or 

 Avith the cell black before the orbicular and sometimes also between 

 the stigmata ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, slightly defined 

 by ochreous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved and slightly angled outwards on vein 1 ; 

 the subterminal line greyish, often defined by slight dentate black 

 marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly dentate 

 at veins 4 and 3 ; traces of a terminal series of black points and a 

 fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous whitish 



