44G NociriDJE. 



762. Agrotis capnistis. (Plate LXXT. fig. 21.) 



Agrotis capnistis, Led. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. viii. p. 14, pi. ii. f. 1 (1871) ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 



(5 . Head and thorax groy mixed with brown and black ; tegulie 

 black at base ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with black, 

 leaving grey streaks on the veins, the costal area greyer to the post- 

 medial line; the subbasal line represented by double black striga? filled 

 in with grey from costa and cell ; the antemcdial line black, defined 

 by grey on inner side, interrupted at the veins and angled outwards 

 above inner margin ; claviform elongate, defined by grey and black; 

 cell filled in with blackish defining the orbicular aiul reniforra, which 

 are grey with their centres brownish ; postmedial line blackish 

 defined by grey on outer side, minutely waved, bent outwards below 

 costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; the 

 subterminal line represented by a series of grey points angled out- 

 wards at vein- 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine pale terminal line. 

 Hind wing white, the veins and marginal areas tinged with brown ; 

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

 dark postmedial bar. 



Hab. Asi.\ Minor, Pontus, Amasia, 1 6 ; Syria ; N. Persia ; 

 W. Turkestan ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Exj). 34 millira. 



703. Agrotis juncta. (Plate LXXI. tig. 22.) 



Agrotis juiuta, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 171 (1878) ; Siiiitb, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 74. 



(^ . Head whitish ; tegular black-brown tipped with white ; thorax 

 pale rufous mixed with ochreous, some of the scales tipped with 

 grey ; abdomen whitish mixed with brown, the anal tuft fulvous. 

 JFore wing purple, showing the greyish ground-colour in places ; the 

 subbasal line represented by black spots below costa and cell ; the 

 antemedial line black, somewhat irregularly excurved and acutely 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform very elongate, with pale 

 outline and some black at base ; orbicuhir and reniform with pale 

 outlines, confiucnt in lower part of cell, there being a (|uadrate black 

 spot between their upper portions ; the postmedial line black, 

 minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; traces of a subterminal line. Hind wing 

 whitish sufiused with brown, the base pale. 



HaK Canada, Nova Scotia, 1 S type. Exp. 34 millira. 



764. Agrotis rectangula. 



Noctua rectanqula, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776); Fabr. Manfc. Ins. ii. 



p. 155 (1787); Iliibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. IIU; Godt. Lep. Fr. ii. 



p. 248, pi. 68. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 

 Agrotis andcrreggii, Boisd. Ic. Lep. d'Eur. pi. 76. f. 6 (1832). 

 Agrotis cxclamans, Ev. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1841, i. p. 27, pi. 3. 



ff. 5, 6. 

 Agrotis rectangxda, var. aciitangula, Staud. Iris, v. p. 355 (1892). 



Head and thorax pur[ilish brown, the scales tipped Avilh grey ; 



