AGROTIS. 401 



then incurved; the subterminal line ochreous, defined by reddish 

 brown on inner side and by an oblique black bar from costa, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, and exeurved at middle. Hind wiug ochreous, 

 suffused with fuscous on costal and terminal areas, or nearly wholly 

 suffused in female ; the cilia ochreous ; the underside with the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous and the former suffused 

 with purplish red. 



Hub. Labrador, 1 S ', Beixain, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; 

 Germany, Zeller Coll.; Austria, Leech Coll.; Switzerland, Frey 

 Coll. ; Italy ; Bithynia ; Siberia : W, Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; 

 E. Turkestan, Hi ; Amurland, Ussuri. E.cp. 4:^-50 millim, 



Subsp. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker and more purplish ; 

 hind wing without ochreous tinge except on cilia. 



Hah. Japan, Hakodate {Andrews), 1 5 ; W. China, Ta-chien-lu 

 {Pratt), 1 c? , 1 S , Huang-mu-chang {Pratt), 1 $ . 



Larva. Meyr. Erit. Lep. p. 190 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 56, pi. 143. f. I. 



Pale dull pinkish ochreous with blackish irroration ; dorsal line 

 pale, obscure ; a subdorsal series of dark marks on posterior somites, 

 on somite 12 blackish, and sometimes connected, followed by a pale 

 bar ; subspiracular line pale ; head ochreous with brown markings. 

 Food-plants : Rubus, liumex, Salir, etc. 8-5. 



689. Agrotis conchis. (Plate LXX. fig. 13.) 



Agrotis conchis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 43 (1879) ; id. 111. Essay, 51, pi. 1. 



f. S ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 71. 



$ . Head, tegulce, and patagia pale chestnut, the extremity of 

 teguloe and upper part of patagia dark red-brown; dorsal part 

 of thorax grey ; pectus pale chestnut in front ; tibia3 and tarsi 

 rufous irrorated with black ; abdomen grey suffused with rufous. 

 Fore wing purplish grey with slight brown irroration ; a pale patch 

 tinged with rufous at base of costa, with the black subbasal line ou 

 it angled outwards below costa, and with a black and whitish point, 

 beyond it in cell ; the antemedial line double, slightly" sinuous and 

 bent outwards to inner margin ; claviform represented by a black 

 point ; orbicular and reniform chestnut with pale centres, yellowish 

 annuli and black outline, the former oblique, U-shaped, open above, 

 the latter open above and below, the cell before and between the 

 stigmata and just beyond the reniform black with some rufous below 

 it on median nervure ; a waved medial shade from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then slightly 

 incurved and with slight series of points beyond it on the veins ; 

 subterminal line defined by grey on outer side, angled inwards 

 below costa, where there is a diffused black patch on its inner side, 

 and exeurved at middle. Hind wiug ochreous white suffused with 

 brown, especially on terminal area ; the underside with dark dis- 

 coidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Snow), 1 § type, New Mexico. Exp. 

 40 millim, 



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