AGEOTIS, 309 



Hah. Canaba {Gorman), 1 5 , Ecnfrc^v Co., 1 S ; U.S.A., Xoi thorn. 

 Middle, & Eastern States, Trenton Palls {Douhledaii), 3 J , 1 $ , 

 New York, -A J , 1 $ , type, Michigan, 1 $ . Exp. 38-42 millim. 



G8G. Agrotis collari. (Plate LXX. fig. 12.) 



Agrofis Mlari, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. SGH, pi. 4. f . 1 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. 

 Ochroplcura phimbata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 180. 



Head and thorax grey, the former mixed, the latter largely 

 suffused "vrith purple-brown, a grey line near tips of tcgulae and a 

 black streak near upper edge of patagia ; abdomen grey, dorsally 

 tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft with rufous. Fore wing j^urplish 

 grey ; the subbasal line prominent, black, defined by white on outer 

 side, extending from costa to vein 1 and with black patch beyond 

 it below the cell ; the autcmedial line double, angled outwards 

 below costa, then incurved to above inner margin, where it is 

 excurved ; the medial area suffused with purplish red and fuscous ; 

 claviform defined by grey and black at extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform puiplish grey, defined by black and their centres by reddish 

 brown, the former oblique, elliptical or rather V-shaped, open above, 

 the latter large, the cell before and between them deep black : a 

 diffused waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line doable, minutely waved, with a series of black and 

 -white points on the veins beyond it, bent outwards below costa, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and more strongly below vein 4 ; 

 the subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side and by some 

 dentate black marks towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish with 

 brown line at base; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated 

 with fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and 

 diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. phunhata. Thorax browner; fore wing with the medial 

 area and stigmata more suffused with red-brown ; hind wing darker 

 brown. — Japan. 



Hah. Russia, Urals ; Siberia, 1 c? > 1 2 , Altai ; Usstjrt ; KA:\r- 

 scHATKA ; Japa^% Tokio {Maries), 2 $ , type plumhaia, Yokohama 

 {Fryer), 2 $ . Ea-j^. 44-52 millim. 



687. Agrotis triangulum. 



Phalmna triangulum, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii, p. 30r> (1776); Stcpb. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 133 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. i^al. p. 138. 

 Noctna ^igma, Esp. Scbiuett. iv. pi. 186. 11". 1,3 (1706); Hiibii. Sainuil. 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 4'J7 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 174, pi. (\(). f. (i. 



Head and teguhe except tips brownish white ; palpi blackish at 

 sides except at tips ; extremities of tegulic and thorax red-brown ; 

 tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; alKlomen ochreous irrorated with 

 dark brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing 

 pale greyish brown suffused with red-brown ; the subbasal line pale, 



