AGKOTIS. 431 



wliitisli at extremity ; sides of frons black ; abdomen pale brown, 

 the hair at sides and ventral surface rufous. I'ore wing pale 

 suffused with brown-pink ; a dark waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a black point in cell ; the antemedial line irre- 

 gularly waved, oblique ; the extremity of claviform defined by some 

 black scales ; orbicular and reniform brown-pink, with pale annuli 

 and black outline, the former somewhat quadrate, oblique, open 

 above, the latter constricted at middle and with its lower edge 

 angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between the 

 stigmata black -brown ; the postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, highly dentate, and with 

 series of points on the veins ; the subterminal line pale, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, with some black suffusion on its inner edge at 

 costa and black points at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing pale pinkish slightly suffused with fuscous ; a fine 

 terminal dark line : the underside with discoidal point and indis- 

 tinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington Terr., 1 S type. Exp. 36 millim. 



Larva. (Original.) Head 2-5 millim., pale brown on the sides, 

 reticulate with black, the vertical bands rather straight and all the 

 space between them filled in with black ; band from eye diffused ; 

 a patch behind eye. Eody brown, scarcely mottled, somewhat 

 thin-skinned. Dorsal space broadly pale, dusky shaded centrally, 

 sharply limited by the black longitudinal sulidorsal dashes ; a 

 dark shade above the position of the obsolete substigmatal band. 

 Cervical shield a little darker than the body, cut by the narrow, 

 faint, white dorsal line and pale-blotched subdorsally ; spiracles 

 black. Probably a general feeder. — H. (x. D. 



740. Agrotis trigonica. 



Aynilin Lrlgonlva, Alph. llor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xvii. p. 43, pi. 1. f.39 (1872) ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. 

 Agrotis capnoptera, Pling. Soc. Ent. xiii. p. 58 (1898). 



cJ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi black- 

 brown except at extremity ; abdomen grey, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface tinged with pink. Fore Aving pale red-brown 

 suffused with grey, less prominently on medial area ; a slight 

 curved rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the 

 antemedial line oblique, brown, slightly angled outwards on sub- 

 costal nervure and prominently above inner margin ; orbicular and 

 reniform concolorous defined by olive-brown, the former very open, 

 V-sha])ed, the cell before and between the stigmata and below the 

 orbicular deep olivo-brown ; postmedial line double, e.xcurved below 

 costa and at middle, incurved below vein 4, the veins beyond it 

 with slight dark streaks; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, defined 

 by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a fine pale terminal line. Hind wing white, irrorated 

 with purplish brown towards termen, the inner margin and cilia 



