AGROTIS. 305 



GT'J. Agrotis vidua. 



Ayrotis vidua, Stand. Rom. Mem. yi. p. 409, pi. 7. f. 3 (1892) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 139. 



Head and tegulie ochreous ; palpi except at tips, and tips of tegulre 

 Llack ; thorax purple-brown ; tibioe and tarsi above ochreous ; 

 abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous brown. Fore wing brown 

 suffused with purple ; a slight black streak in base of submedian 

 fold ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 a double, waved, antemedial line with a rufous tinge on it; clavi- 

 form with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by the cell being deep black before and between 

 them and with slight reddish-ochrcous annuli, the former oblique; 

 a slight oblique medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points 

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

 oblique ; the subterminal line represented b}* a more or less promi- 

 nent series of ochreous points Avith slight dentate black marks on 

 their inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing yellowish brown ; the underside with some pale irro- 

 ration on costal area, a curved postmedial line. 



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680. Agrotis renalis. (Plate LXX. fig. 6.) 



Ochro})leura renalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 5.^; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. 



p. 188. 

 Ochropleura subpurpurea, Leech, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1900, p. 35. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with rufous and the scales 

 tipped with blue-grey ; the teguUe sometimes olive-ochrcous except 

 at tips ; the metathorax with rufous crest ; abdomen fuscous brown, 

 the anal tuft tipped with ochreous. Fore wing dark brown suffused 

 Avith purple-grey ; the costal area ochreous or rufous to the post- 

 medial line ; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, 

 in whicli there is a short black streak ; the antemedial line double, 

 waved, excurved above inner margin and with oblique black streak 

 before it in cell ; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former rounded 

 or diamond-shaped, open above, the coll before and between the 

 stigmata suffused with black ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, 

 minutely dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, defined on inner side by an oblicpie black 

 bar from costn. anghd outwards at vein 7 and excurved al middle; 

 a tcriuinal series of black points. Hind ning dark fuscuus brown, 

 with fine ochreous line at base of cilia ; the underside irrorated 

 with grey. 



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