AGROTIS. 



423 



terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal luuule and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



llah. W. China, Ti-chien-lu {Pratt), 1 2 , Chia-kou-ho, 1 S type, 

 Moupin {Kricheldorff), 2 c? , 2 5 . E.vp. 44-48 millim. 



725. Agrotis dahli. 



Xoctiia daJilii, Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. ff. 4(3.5, 466 (1827) ; Godt. Lep. 



Fr. ii. p. 189, pi. 62. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. 

 Agrotis dcscrlpfa, auct. (nee Brein.), Hnipsii. Motlis Ind. ii. p. 184 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. 

 Graphiphora canesccns, Biitl. 111. Ilet. B. M. ii. p. 28, pi. 30. f. 1 (1878). 

 Orthosia erubeseeiis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) v. p. 224 (1880). 

 Cerasfis subdoleiis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 181 (d*). 

 Chern cfflorescens, Hiupsn. 111. Ilet. B. M. viii. p. 78, pi. 14.5. f. 7 (1891). 

 Chcra erubescens, Hmpsu. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 78, pi. 145. f. 14 (1891). 



(5 . Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi purplish red, grey at tips ; 

 tibiae and tarsi dark brown irrorated with white ; abdomen grey- 

 brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing yellow- 

 brown ; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold, and filled iji with purplish ; the antemedial line similar, 

 extending to inner margin ; the claviform represented by a black 

 point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with slight greyish 

 annuli defined by brown, the former round, the latter with some 

 greyish at centre ; a waved difl^used medial line angled outwards on 

 median nervure ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced 

 to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved 

 at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some purplish suff'usion beyond 

 it ; the subterminal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, the area beyond it sufl:used with purplish ; a 

 terminal series of dark points. Hind wing brownish ochreous, 

 suffused with fuscous brown on terminal half; cilia rufous ; under- 

 side ])ale, the costal area tinged with rufous and the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



5 . Head and thorax purple-red irrorated with grey ; fore wing 

 pnrple-brown, often with the reniform prominently grey ; hind 

 wing fuscous brown. 



Ab. 1. Hdiia. Hardly more than half the size of typical foi'm. — 

 Dauria. 



Ab. 2. cfflorescens. Head, thorax, and fore wing much greyer ; 

 palpi blackish except at tips. 



Hub. IJiUTAiN, Zeller & Leech Colls. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Ger- 

 many, Zeller Coll. ; llussiA, S.E. ; W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; Tihet, Amdo : E. Siijeria, Zeller 

 Coll., 1 6; Amurland, 8 c?, $, Leech Coll., Ussuri ; .Japan, 

 Tokio (Maries), 2 c? type suhdoleiis, Hakodate {Aiidrewes), 1 S , 

 Kiushiu, 1 5, Gifu (Fryer), 1 6 , Yokohama (Fri/er), 1 d , G §, 

 (Jonas) 1 2 type canescens ; Corea, Gensan (Ito), 1 $ ; W. China, 

 Kiukiang (Pratt), 3^,2$, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 $ , Pu-tsu-fang, 

 1 c? , Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 2$ ; Punjah, Thundiani (Yerhary), 2d' , 



