406 NocTuiD.t;. 



line upward from eye broad, not darker than the reticulations. 

 Body brown, finely mottled on a greenish ground; dorsal line white, 

 narrow, developed into a series of white specks on the centres of the 

 segments, often conspicuous. Cervical shield brown, cut by whitish 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines. Subdorsal line narrow, white, defined 

 by obscure brown shades ; substigmatal band broad, white, similarly 

 defined, faintly brownish filled, distinct from the darker subventral 

 region. Spiracles black-rimmed. 

 A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



to^ 



696. Agrotis leucogaster. 



Noctua leucogaster, Frr. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. i. p. 08, pi. 21 (1831) ; Boisd. 

 Icones, pi. 83. f. (5; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suijpl. iii. p. 222, pi. 20. f. b ; Herr.- 

 Scbaff. Sclimett. Eur., Noct. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. 



Head and thorax grey, thickly irrorated with red-browu, and 

 with two brown spots between antenna) ; palpi dark rufous except 

 at tips ; tegula? whitish tinged with rufous to brown-pink, a black 

 patch at base ; fore tibiae and tarsi whitish ; mid tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish ; abdomen white, tinged with purplish red towards ex- 

 tremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing silkj^ purplish brown, 

 the costal area white tinged with purplish pink to beyond middle 

 extending to middle of cell ; a black-brown streak in lower part of 

 cell extending to submedian fold from base to origin of vein 2 ; 

 orbicular and reniform very small, with fuscous centres and white 

 annuli, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter with the black streak 

 extending beyond it as a small triangular spot ending in a short 

 ochreous streak, sometimes with another above it; the postmedial 

 line represented by an oblique series of black points on the veins from 

 vein 4 to inner margin ; the subterminal line sometimes represented 

 by slight dark marks, the terminal area rather darlver and irrorated 

 with grey, a terminal series of small black spots with grey on their 

 inner sides. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the underside with 

 the costal area suffused with pui-plish pink, a postmedial series of 

 black points on the veins aiid a terminal series in the interspaces 

 of the costal half. 



Hah. S. Europe, S. France, Zeller & Prey Colls,, Dalmatia, Leech 

 Coll.; Palestine. Exp. 30 millim. 



Larva. Mill. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xiv. p. 327, pi. 74. ff. 6-8._ 



Head orange, striated with brown ; dorsal area dull olive-brown, 

 the dorsal line grey ; stigmatal line white, the stigmata edged with 

 black ; the sublateral area yellow ; the ventral area blue-grey. 

 Food-plant, Lotus. 



*697. Agrotis plectina, 



Agrotis pled in a, Mssn. Stiibel's Reise, p. 144, pi. vi. f. 28 (1890). 



5 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; tegulae yellow, with 

 dark brown terminal band ; abdomen greyish yellow, the ventral 

 surface ochreous ; tarsi brown ringed with ochreous. Fore wing 

 brown; the costal area yellowish white to the postmedial line ; a 



