AfiROTIS. 403 



Noctiut Diendosa, Hiibn. Schniett. Eur., Koct. ff. 120, 502 (1827). 

 A(/rofis jjoiitica, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 2G6 (1891). 

 Ac/rotis coiisencsceiis, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 266 (1S91). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey and irrorated with 

 dark scales ; palpi black-brown except at tips ; abdomen ochreous 

 brown irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing 

 grej'-brown more or less strongly tinged with rufous and irrorated 

 with black scales ; the subbasal line represented by small black 

 spots below costa and cell ; the antemedial line whitish, oblique, 

 minutely waved, with black spots on its outer side below costa and in 

 and below cell ; claviform with its upper edges defined by whitish ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, defined by whitish, the former oblique, 

 elliptical, open above, a diffused brown medial shade passing between 

 the stigmata ; the postmedial line double, with a series of black 

 points beyond it on the veins and with black point on its inner 

 side at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, slightly defined by red- 

 brown on inner side and with an oblique dark bar before it from 

 costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small dark lunules. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 fuscous brown, especially towards terraen, the cilia ochreous ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, 

 a small dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. pontica. Fore wing reddish or violaceous grey ; hind wing 

 whitish. — Pontus, Tarcomania. 



Ab. 2. consenescens. Fore wing yellowish grey. — Pontus. 



Hah. Britain, England, Wales, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, 

 Zeller Coll.; Switzerland, Frey Coll.; Sweden; Russia, Livonia, 

 Sarepta ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Turkestan, 1 cJ , 

 Issyk-kul. Exp. 40-46 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 104 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. -13, pi. 142. f. 1 . 



Dull brown, with a dorsal series of darker-outlined diamond- 

 shaped marks ; spiracular line dark, diffused ; spiracles white with 

 dark edges ; subspiracular line ochreous white ; head pale brown 

 with dark markings. Food-plants ; Pmaula, Urtica, liumex, 

 etc. 9-5. 



693. Agrotis baja. 



Xoctua ha jo, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. Xl') (1787) : Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. 



ill. pi. 25. f. 110 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 70. 

 Nnctna haja, var. ■punctata, Auriv. Nurd. Fjar. p. 115 (1888). 

 Agrotis bajula. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 411. 

 Agrutis srjiiikii, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxxix. p. 157 (1896). 



Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with purple-grey ; 

 palpi black, pale at extremity ; tarsi blackish with pale rings : 

 abdomen pale rufous, greyish ochreous towards base. Fore wing 

 red-brown suffused with purplish grey : the subbasal line double, 

 Avaved from costa to submedian fold, with a black point usually 

 present just beyond it in the cell ; a double, waved, antemedial 



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