AGROTIS. 



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pal])! at sides except extremity, antennnB, and base of tegulte 

 black ; tibiae and tarsi mixed with black, with pale bands ; abdomen 

 whitish, suffused with reddish brown especially towards extremity. 

 Eore wing purplish brown irrorated with grey ; a sinuous black 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a pale subbasal lino 

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

 on vein 1 and excurved above inner margin ; claviform large, 

 defined by whitish, its base black or rarely entirely filled in by black ; 

 the orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by a few 

 black scales, the former round, the latter with its lower edges 

 produced inwards on median nervure and often confluent with the 

 orbicular ; a quadrate black patch in cell between the upper parts 



Fig. 78. — Ac/rot is rectangida, J. \. 



of stigmata; two black spots on medial part of costa; the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, black, defined by grey on outer side, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex; thesubterminal 

 line defined by pale brownish on outer side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, then dentate ; some dark points on termen. Hind wing 

 ])ale suffused with brown, especially on the veins and terminal half ; 

 the underside with discoidal spot and curved postmediul line ou 

 costal half of wing. 



The antennae of male have some rough black scales at base of 

 shaft. 



Ah. 1. anderrecigi. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker purplish 

 fuscous. — Alps ; Urals ; C. Asia ; Siberia : Kamschatka. 



Ab. 2. aciUangula. Fore wing browner, with the stigmata 

 prominent. — C. Asia. 



Hab. Switzerland, Frey Coll., 3 J i 2 $ ; Italy ; Austria ; 

 lluMELiA ; lIussiA, Kasau, 2 cf , Urals ; Asia Minor, Poutus, Taurus ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai, 1 $ ; W. Turkestan, Ala Tan, Issyk-kul ; 

 E. Turkestan, Thian-Shan Mts. ; E. Siberia, Kamschatka. Exj_). 

 36 millim. 



*765. Agrotis patefacta. (Plate LXXI. fig. 23.) 



Nuciua fatefacta. Smith, Eiit. News rhilad. vi. p. 3o3, pi. xv. f. 2 (1895). 



cJ . Head and tlioi'ax (huk i)i;rple-brown, some of the hairs 

 tipped with grey ; palpi black at sides ; tegulte with the basal half 

 black; legs blackish with grey-brown hair; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the anal tuft with a rufous tinge. Fore wing purple-brown suffused 

 with black ; the subbasal line represented by black spots below 



