412 NOCTUID^. 



irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. 

 Fore wing purplish grey, irrorated and in places suffused with red- 

 brown ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedlan fold ; 

 a double oblique slightly waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reni- 

 form rather indistinctly defined by brown, the former round, the cell 

 between them dark red-brown ; an oblique diffused sinuous line from 

 \o\yeY angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line minutely 

 Avaved, defined by purplish grey on outer side, then the ground- 

 colour darker, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4 ; the subterminal line grey, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine dark terminal 

 line. Hind wing ochreous whitish, suffused with fuscous towards 

 costa and termen ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia pale rufous ; the 

 uiidcrside with the costal area suffused with purplish red, a dark 

 discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. 



2 . Darker, and with hardly any of the rufous tints. 

 JIab. Amurland, Ussuri, 4 (5,2 $ . Exy. 36-40 millim. 



706. Agrotis piinicea. 



Noctita punicca, Hiibn. Saiuml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 115 (1827) ; Grodt. 

 Lep. Fr. v. pi. 63. f. 5 ; Boisd. Icones, pi. <83. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 136. 



Head and thorax rufous, the tegulae edged with grey ; abdomen 

 ochreous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface more rufous. Fore 

 wing greyish ochreous irrorated witli white especially on the veins, 

 the terminal area suffused with rufous ; a double, waved, subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold filled in with grey ; a similar 

 oblique antemedial line extending to inner margin ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by rufous, the former round ; a diffused medial red- 

 brown line passing between them, angled outwards on median 

 nervure ; the postmedial line double, filled in with grey, bent 

 outward below costa, very slightly incurved at discal fold and rather 

 more strongly below vein 4 ; the subterminal line grey, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; the veins of terminal 

 area with slight dark streaks. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; cilia purplish pink ; the underside paler, irrorated 

 with fuscous, the costal area suffused with purplish pink, a slight 

 discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Belgiuji ; Germany, Bavaria, Saxony, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Zeller Coll. ; Switzer- 

 land, Leech Coll. ; Russia, S. Jb Centr. ; Siberia, Mongolia ; 

 Amtjrland, Ussuri. Ea2^. 36 millim. 



707. Agrotis brannea. 



Xoctna brunnca, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 83 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. ll'l ; Godt. Lep. Fr. ii. p. 183, pi. (il. f. 4 ; Steph. 111. 



Brit. Eiit., Haust. ii. p. 131 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 14(1. 

 Noctua Itccifera, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 142. f. 6 &_pl. 188. ft'. 4, 5 (1786). 

 Noctua arvensis, Gniel. Syst. IS'at. i. 5, p. 256!) (1788). 

 Noctua fragaria, Bork. Schmett. iv. p. 497 (1792). 



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