442 NOCTUID.E. 



the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved 

 below vein 4 ; traces of a pale subterminal line angled outwards at 

 vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, 

 suffused with brown especially on veins and terminal area ; the 

 underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown; a brown 

 discoidal spot. 



The female has largo paired sublateral foveal depressions with a 

 few long spatulate scales in them on the penultimate abdominal 

 segment. 



Ihib. Greenland, 1 5 ; Canada {Norman), 1 $ , Manitoba 

 (Bussell), 1 J, Kova Scotia {Redman), 1 (5,2$; U.IS.A., Eastern 

 and Central States, Massachusetts, Beverly, 1 c? , 2 $ , New York, 

 Trenton Ealls, 5 J , 5 5 , type ; Kamschatka. Exp. 38-48 millim. 



Larva. Saunders, Fruit-Insects, ]i. 108, ff. 10(>, 107. 



(Redescril)ed.) Head 3 millim., pale brown, reticulate, curved 

 vertical band broad, black, the one upward from the eye distinct, 

 brown. Body brown, thickly mottled on a cream-coloured ground ; 

 cervical shield a shade darker with dorsal and subdorsal whiti.sli 

 lines ; dorsal line narrow, whitish, obscure ; subdorsal oblique 

 shades forming distinct oblique brown patches on joints 5 to 12, all 

 large, whitish-edged behind, the pair on joint 12 narrowly joined, 

 resting on the w:hitish subdorsal line ; lateral oblique shades upward 

 and forward from the spiracles, small, diffuse; substigmatal band 

 obscure, a little more reddish than the ground-colour, defined by its 

 whitish edges ; sjnracles black-rimmed. A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



*759. Agrotis suecica. (Plate LXXI. fig. 20.) 



Jgrotis succica, Auriv. Nord. Fjiir. p. 121, f. 24 (1890); Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 136. 



Head and thorax reddish brown with a purple gloss and irrorated 

 with black ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing reddish brown irrorated 

 and suffused with fuscous and with a purplish gloss; the subbasal 

 line represented by double black striae from costa ; the autemedial 

 line double, angled outwards below costa, in cell, in submedian fold 

 and more strongly above inner margin ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, slightly defined by black, the former rather 

 elliptical ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to jwints 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line obsolete. Hind wing 

 whitish, almost uniformly suffused with brown ; the cilia white with 

 a brown line at base ; the underside whitish, the costal area strongly 

 and the terminal area slightly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal 

 spot and postmedial line on costal area. 



The male has the claspers long and exserted ; the female has paired 

 sublateral, almost naked foveal depressions on penultimate segment 

 of abdomen. 



Hah. Sweden, type f c? $ in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 38 millim. 



