420 NociuTDJi:. 



blackish at sides except at tips ; abdomen pale brownish ochreous 

 or fuscous, the anal tuft more rufous. Pore wing with slight curved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 rather indistinct, waved, and angled inwards to points on the veins ; 

 claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform with Avhitish annuli 

 defined by blackish, the latter sometimes filled in with whitish, the 

 former round ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points 

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

 incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by fuscous on inner 

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

 series of dark points ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 ochreous white ; the terminal area suffused with fuscous, in female 

 suffused to middle or base ; the underside paler, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a sinuous postmedial line usually present. 



Ab. 1. Suffused with fuscous. — Scotland, Forres, 



Ab. 2. elutior. Cinnamon or greyish ochreous. 



Ab. 3. hudensis. Greyish. 



Ab. 4. palcestinensis. Pale grey, with the markings distinct. 



Hah. Beitain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand 

 Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; HrNGARv {Staudiwjer); Switzerland ; 

 Sicily; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; Asia Minor; 

 Syria; W. Turkestan, Ferghana. £'.(;^). 32-40 millira. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 101 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 97, pi. 14S. f. 1. 



Pale brownish ochreous, sometimes with a reddish tinge ; dorsal 

 line pale, dark-edged ; subdorsal line pale, dark- edged below, and 

 with a series of black marks above it, nearly obsolete on somites 1-3; 

 spiracular line brown ; head ochreous with brown markings. Food- 

 plants : Rumex, Plantago, etc. 9-5. 



720. Agrotis rubifera. ( Plate LXX. fig. 27.) 



Agrotis ruhifera, Grote, Can. Eut. vii. pp. 207 227 ; Smitb, Cat. IS'oct. 

 N. Am. p. 73. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing varying from dark dull brown to 

 purple-brown and bright chestnut-red : palpi blackish except at 

 extremity ; abdomen fuscous, with the hair at sides and extremity 

 rufous. Fore wing irrorated with black ; a waved black subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold : a black point in cell ; a double 

 waved antemedial line excurved above inner margin ; the extremity 

 of claviform usually defined by a black point ; the orbicular and 

 reniform tinged with fuscous, with grey annuli and blackish out- 

 lines, the former large, round, the latter constricted at middle and 

 with its lower edge produced inwards on median nervure ; the 

 postmedial line double, very even and only minutely dentate, with 

 series of dark points on its outer edge, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a pale subterminal line with 

 minutely dentate dark inner edge, angled slightly outwards at vein 7 

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

 wing ochreous grey suffiised with fuscous, the cilia pale ochreous ; 

 the underside with dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



