AGHOTIS. 



441 



and circumfercnee defined by fuscous ; the postmedial line more 

 towards tcrmen than usual, curved, dentate, rather indistinct ; the 

 subterminal line pale, defined by brownish on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points usually present ; cilia ochreous with fuscous line through 

 them. Hind wing dark brown, the interspaces of diseal area whitish 

 and semihyaline ; cilia brown at base, ■whitish at tips ; the under- 

 side pale, the costal and terminal areas brownish irrorated with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal lunulc and curved sinuous postmedial line. 

 Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (2V*///Wo), 2 S , 1 $; Guatemala {Rodri- 

 guez), 2 (5' , 1 $ type Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 56-58 millim. 



6^. Palpi with the 2ud joint fringed with hair in front, 

 a.'. Abdomen of female with pair of sublateral foveas 

 near extremit)'. 

 0.'. Fore wing with the orbicular stignia more or 



less elongate, elliptical uiiicohr. 



i'. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma round suecica. 



75S. Agrotis unicolor. 



Ma)nr:^/ra luiicolor, Wlk. ix. 233 (1856). 



Noctaa dandestina, Harris, Inj. Ins. p. 448 (1862) ; Riley, 1st Rep. Tns. 



Mo. p. 79, pi. 1. f. 13; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Aui. p. 75; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 136. 

 Mamcstra nigriceps, Wlk. xxxii. 659 (1865). 



Head and tegular black-brown ; thorax grey-brown, the scales 

 tipped with grey ; legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 





Fig. 77. — Agrotis unicolor, §. \. 



grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown, irrorated M'ilh grey and 

 fuscous ; a fine black streak often present in basal half of submedian 

 fold; a double, waved, subbasal lino from costa to submedian fold ; 

 the anteracdial line double, acutely angled outwards below costa, in 

 cell, in submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on 

 subcostal and median nervures and vein 1 ; claviforra sometimes 

 indicated by a few black scales ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 black, the former small to large, elongate, the latter open above and 

 below, the stigmata often connected by a black streak in diseal fold; 



