AGR0TI8, 435 



black defined by ochreous on outer side, minutely dentate, excurved 

 from below costa to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line 

 ochreous with black suffusion on its inner edge, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal black line with series 

 of points on it. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 the cilia yellow ; the underside yellowish, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown and with traces of postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



Hah. Canada, Er. Columbia, Vancouver I. (./. /. Wall-er), 1 $ . 

 Exj). 38 millim. 



747. Agrotis collina. 



Noctua collina, Boisd. Ind. Metli. p. 105 (1840); Hei-r.-Schiiff. Scliraett. 



Eur., Noct. f. 142; Staurl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138. 

 Noctua monlana, Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett. vi. pi. 509. f. 3 (1852), & vii. 



pi. 698. 

 Agrotis kenteana. Stand. Iris, v. p. 353 (1892). 



Head and thorax red-brown suffused with purple ; palpi with 

 some black at sides ; tips of tegulne and thoracic crests sometimes 

 blackish; tarsi black with ochreous rings; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the anal tuft and ventral surface purplish red. Fore wing purplish 

 red, the veins irrorated with grey and fuscous ; the subbasal line 

 black, defined by whitish on outer side, angled outwards below costa 

 and with short black streak below its extremity in submedian fold ; 

 tlie antemedial line blackish and grey, waved and angled outwards 

 below costa and above inner margin ; claviform small, obscurely 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and 

 whitish aunuli defined by black, the former large, rounded, the cell 

 before and between them suffused with black ; the postmedial line 

 dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some 

 pale points on costa towards apex ; traces of a subterminal line, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of pale points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the 

 cilia ochreous at tips ; the underside pale irrorated with fuscous, 

 the costal area tinged witli red, a small discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. centeann. Browner ; fore wing with the markings less 

 prominent. — S.E. Siberia and Amurland. 



IJah. Alps of S. Francr & SwrrzERLAxo ; Geritaxy, Silesia, Zeller 

 & Frey Colls.; Galicia ; Bctcovina ; Kumelia ; Sweden; Russia, 

 Livonia ; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; Tibet, Ivuku-noor ; S.E. 

 SiitERiA, Amurland, Kentei, 1 cj" . Exj}. 32-36 millim. 

 Larva. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 203 (1884). 



Purplish grey ; dorsal line pale defined by black ; a subdorsal 

 series of black points : lateral line yellowish defined by a series of 

 dentate black marks above ; a yellowish bar on 11th somite ; stig- 

 mata white with black annuli ; head red-brown. Food-plants : 

 Plantario Janceolata, Rume.vhijdrolapathxan, and Taraxacum. 



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