AGROTrs. 449 



medial line black, slightly waved, and angled outwards below cell 

 and above inner margin ; stigmata absent ; the postmedial line 

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

 incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, grey, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at median nervules. Hind wing 

 "white, the veins and inner and terminal areas tinged with brown. 

 Underside of both wings with curved black postmedial lino obsolete 

 on inner area. 



On the fore wing the lines may be absent or the veins streaked 

 with black. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 d tj-pe, Nevada, Arizona. Exp. 34 

 millim. 



*768. Agrotis cinereicollis. (Plate LXXI. fig. 26.) 



Agrotis cinereicollis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 79, pi. iv. f. 6 



(1876). 

 Agrotis pallidicollis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 154 (1880); Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 77. 



2 • Ochreous ; head and tegulas greyish white, the latter tipped 

 with ochreous. Fore wing with the costal and terminal areas grey ; 

 the lines single, barely traceable : a black slrcak below base of cell ; 

 the antcmedial line even, oblique ; orbicular and reniform moderate, 

 pale, contlucut, defined by deeper ochreous brown, the former 

 elliptical, produced on outer side and connected with the latter ; 

 the postmedial line angled beyond cell ; the subterminal line only 

 defined by the contrast between the postmedial and pale terminal 

 areas. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area tinged with fuscous : 

 a faint discoidal lunule ; the underside ochreous whitish, with dark 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., California. Exp. 34 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me ; figured from a drawing from specimen in Am. Mua. 

 Xat. Hist. 



769. Agrotis melanura. 



Agrotis melanura, Koll. Dalm. descr. del. Carrara, p. 99 (1846) ; Ilerr.- 

 Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. vi. p. 61, ff. 137, 138 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 146. 



Agrotis grisescens, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xiv. p. 427(1878). 



5 . Head and thorax white slightly irrorated with dark brown ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen dorsally tinged with ochreous. 

 Fore -wing w hite slightly irrorated with dark brown ; four dark 

 points on costa ; traces of a waved antemedial line from cell to 

 inner margin ; traces of a postmedial lino bent outwards below 

 costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below 

 vein 4; the terminal fourth of uing suffused with black. Hind 

 wing white, suffused with fuscous brown especially towards termen. 

 Underside white, with the terminal area suft'used with black, 

 narrowing to tornus of hind wing. 



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