394 nocttjidj:. 



suffused with palo brown ; tho cilia white, with a brown line at 

 base ; the underside whitisli, the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a slight discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Gkriiany ; Austria, Zeller 

 & Frey Colls. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Corsica ; Italy ; 

 Syria, Lebanon {Mrs. Niclwll); Persia; W, Siberia, Altai, 1 $, 

 Leech Coll. ; Kashmir, Nurkundah {Mc Arthur), 2 (^ ; Punjab, 

 Sultanpur {G. Young), 1 S ■, Hawal Pindi {Yerhury), 2 J, Dharm- 

 siila {tloclcing), 4^,3 5 , Mynpuri, 1 d" , Allahabad, 1 J ; Tibet, 

 Yatung {Hohson), 2 § ; SiKniM (Lidderdale), 1 J, 1 $. Ex^). 

 40-GO millim. 



Larva. Mcyr. Brit. Lep. p. 90 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 50, pi. 142. f. 4. 



Uniform green, with pale spiracular stripes. Food-plants : Ta- 

 raxacum, Fragaria. 9-5. 



677. Agrotis atritegulata. (Plate LXX. fig. 4.) 

 Agrotis atritcgulata, Hmpsn. Anu. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 261 (1902). 



d" . Head ochreous white ; palpi blackish except at tips ; thorax 

 ochrcous white tinged with rufous, the tegulne with large black 

 patch and without rufous tinge ; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 uclireous white slightly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing purplisli 

 grey, the costal area ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, the 

 costal edge ochreous ; some whitish at base of inner margin ; a 

 deep black fascia in and below cell to the orbicular and thence in 

 the cell to reniform, which is defined on outer side by black. Hind 

 wing pure scniihyaline white ; the underside u ith the costal area 

 tinged with ochreous and with some dark postmedial points on the 

 veins. 



Hah. Transvaal (Ross), 1 S type. E.vp. 38 millim. 



678. Agrotis mandarina. (Plate LXX. fig. 5.) 

 Ochroplcura niandarina, Leech, Trans. Eut. Soc. 1900, p. 3(i. 



5 . Head black mixed with brown and grey ; tegulte pale rufous, 

 their tips and the patagia deep rufous : thorax grey ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen dark brown. Foi'e wing reddish brown, irrorated 

 with dark brown and suffused with purple-grey ; the costal area 

 ochreous with a rufous tinge to the postmedial line ; a black patch 

 below base of cell crossed by the double, curved, subbasal lino ; a 

 double obliquely sinuous antemedial line ; claviform with its ex- 

 tremity slightly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform reddish 

 ochreous, their centres defined by brown, the former small, round, 

 tlie latter with its outer part suftused with dark brown, the cell 

 before and between the stigmata deep black ; the postmedial line 

 double, brown, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, exeurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line somewhat dentate, 

 rufous, angled outwards at vein 7 and exeurved at middle ; a waved 

 dark terminal line. Hind wing yellowish brown ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with grey. 



Hah. W. China, Chia-kou-ho(Pra»)", 1 $ type. £'j-p. 48 millim. 



