AGROTIS. 



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Nociua caruca, Tliunb. Diss. It. p. 55 (179-!). 



A<jrotis hospitalu, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 184 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 72. 

 Cerastis suhdolens, Butl. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1881, p. 181 ( $ ). 



Head and thorax bright rufous, palpi deep rufous except at tips : 

 tibia) and tarsi blackish with ochreous rings ; abdomen grey tinged 

 with fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing 

 purplish irrorated with grey, especially on the veins and costal area, 

 the cell between the stigmata and the area between reniform and 

 pcstmedial line suffused with olive-rufous ; the subbasal line double, 

 minutely waved from costa to subraedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 oblique, double, minutely waved and angled outwards below costa 

 and above inner margin ; claviform represented by a black and grey 

 point at its extremity ; orbicular round, slightly defined by brown 

 or black ; reniform with ochreous centre and annulus ; the cell 

 between the stigmata with its lower part often suffused with black ; 

 a medial shade angled outwards at lower angle of cell ; the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate and produced to black and grey points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards at 

 discal fold, incurved below vein 4, the area beyond it darker, some 

 pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line grey, 

 slightly defiined by red-brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 

 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; cilia rufous ; the underside pale, the costal 

 and terminal areas suffused with purplish red, a dark discoidal 

 lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wnng fuscous grey tinged with 

 olive, and without the rufous and purple tints. — Scandinavia, Sund- 

 more. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Scandinavia, Silndmore, 1 c? ; 

 KussiA, Livonia, 1 (5 , Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Amurland, L^ssuri ; 

 Japan {Maries, Pryer), 2 5 fyP^ suhdolens $ . Exj). 38-48 millim. 



Lnrva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 101 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 63, pi. 143' f. 3. 



Brown or reddish brown ; dorsal line pale or whitish ochreous 

 with dark edges ; a subdorsal series of oblique dark marks ; lateral 

 line pale yellowish, sometimes interrupted ; spiracular line sometimes 

 darker ; subspiracular line flesh-coloured ; a pale yellowish bar on 

 somite 11; head pale brown with dark markings. Food-plants: 

 SalLv, Ruhus, liumecc, etc. 9-4. 



708. Agrotis exusta. 



Gmphlphum cxuda, Biitl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 1(54 (1878); id. 111. Het. 



B. M. ii. p. 28, pi. 29. f. 11 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pat p. 138. 

 Ayrotis nigromacidata, Griiser, Berl. cut. Zeit. 1888, p. 320. 



Head and thorax red-brown, purple-brown, or dark brown mixed 

 with grey or wholly ochreous ; pali)i deep red or blackish, pale at 

 tips ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown, the spurs with pale rings ; al)do- 

 meu fuscous brown, the ventral surface tinged with ochreous or 



