AGROTIS. 433 



743. Agrotis fennica. 



Agrotisfennica, Tausch. Mem. Mosc. i. p. 177, ]5l. 13. f. 4 (1811) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74. 

 Hadena intracfa, Wlk. xi. 584 (1857). 



Head aiid tliorax black-brown mixed with reddish brown and 

 grey ; abdomen grey-brown irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 long and narrow, purplish fuscous, suffused in parts with black and 

 irrorated with a few grey scales ; the inner area beyond the ante- 

 medial line often ochreous tinged with rufous ; the subbasal line 

 double, black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 

 line double, excurved from costa to median nervure, incurved to 

 vein 1, then excurved ; claviform elongate, outlined in black ; 

 orbicular and reniform whitish, outlined in black, the former small, 

 oblique, elliptical, the latter with fuscous patches in its upper and 

 lower extremities ; an indistinct waved medial line ; the postmedial 

 line double, dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; a waved subterminal line, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of small 

 dentate black marks on its inner edge, those above veins 4, 5 

 developed into streaks ; some pale points on costa towards apex 

 and a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyalinc 

 white tinged with brown ; the veins brown ; the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous ; cilia white. 



Hab. Arctic America (B.ichardson), 1 5 , type intracta ; Alaska, 

 Kodiak I., 1 c? ; Canada, Hudson's Bay, St. :\Iavtin's Falls (Barnsfon), 

 2d", Nova Scotia (Rechnati), 1 (J; U.S.A., Massachusetts, jS^ew 

 York, Lewis Co., 2 c? , 2 5 ; Britain (once) ; Switzerlan-d ; Russia, 

 St. Petersburg, 1 $ ; Siberia, Irkutsch, 2 c? , 1 $ ; E. Turkestan, 

 Thian Shan ; Amurlaxd, Kentei, ITssuri. Ex2^. 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Can. Ent. xvi. p. 204 (1884). 



(Redescribed.) Head 3 millim., pale brown on the sides, broadly 

 shaded with black over the face, the edges of this marking diffused ; 

 no distinct reticulations. Body black, very heavily black-mottled 

 on a brown ground, the feet pale. Dorsal line obsolete ; subdorsal 

 indicated by three rows of white crinkled dots, of which the lower 

 is more distant and distinct, the upper two smaller and confused ; 

 substigmatal band waved, composed of two parallel distinct white 

 linos, broken into dots by the folds. A general feeder.— H. (x. D. 



744. Agrotis velata. 



Aqroiis velata, Staud. Stett. eut. Zeit. 1888, p. 247 ; id. Kom. Mem. vi. pi. G. 

 'f. 4 ; id. Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. ISlJ. 



5 . Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore 

 wing dark red-brown, the costal area to postmedial line, the inner 

 and terminal areas suffused with grey ; the antemedial line defined 

 by grey on inner side, obliqnely excurved ; orbicular and ronit'oim 

 small with bi'own centres and grey annuli, the former round, the 

 cell before and between them suffused with black ; the postmedial 

 line delined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 



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