402 NOCTUID^. 



690. Agrotis junctura. (Plate LXX. fig. 14.) 



Agrotis junctura, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 351 ; Hrapsii. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 189. 



J . Head and thorax grey mixed with rufous and dark brown ; 

 tegulse red-brown or blackish at tips ; abdomen ochreous whitish, 

 the anal tuft fulvous, the ventral surface irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing pale grey, the interspaces of costal area slightly streaked 

 with brown ; the subbasal line represented by a slight black striga 

 from costa and a i^rominent oblique striga from median jiervure to 

 vein 1, defined by grey on outer side, a fine, very oblique black 

 streak across cell beyond it ; the antemedial line black defined by 

 grey on inner side, oblique from costa to subcostal nervure, then 

 inwardly oblique and very strongly angled outwards above inner 

 margin ; claviform tinged with fuscous and prominently defined 

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

 oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter with some pink and fuscous 

 at centre and angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before 

 and between them black and the area below the cell suffused with 

 purplish pink ; the postmedial line indistinct and produced to points 

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

 then incurved ; the subterminal line grey, slightly defined by brown 

 on inner side and a black bar at costa, angled slightly outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it tinged with 

 fuscous ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing 

 grey sufi"used with fuscous. 



Hah. X.W. Himalayas, Dalhousie, 4 cj' type^ ^.t-^;. 40 millim. 



*691. Agrotis tenuicola. 



Agrotis fentdcola, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 163 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. 



Pale greyish brown tinged with rufous. Fore wing with the 

 subbasal line excurved below costa, a dark point beyond it in cell ; 

 a double somewhat dentate antemedial line angled outwards below 

 costa and above inner margin ; claviform represented by some black 

 scales ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and pale 

 annuli partially defined by blackish ; an indistinct waved medial 

 shade ; the iiostmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below 

 costa, soraewliat angled beyond cell, incurved below vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line defined by two dentate black marks on its inner side 

 below costa, then by a slight shade, somewhat angled outwards 

 below costa and excurved at middle, placed rather near termen ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing uniform grey. 



Eah. "U.S.A., Xew York. Exp. -33 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



692. Agrotis depuncta. 



Noctua depuncta, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (17o7) ; Esp. Sclmiett. pi. 177. 

 f. 3; Godt. L^p. Fr. ii. p. 191, pi. 62. ff. 3, 4 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 

 Haust. ii. p. 133; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 



