450 N0CTUID35. 



Ab. 1. gr'isescens. Fore wing dull grey. 



Hah. Dalmatia ; Asia Minok, Pontus, 2 $ , Tauras ; Persia, 

 Mesopotamia ; W. Turkestan. Exj). 38 millira. 



770. Agrotis subporphyra. (Plate LXXI. fig. 27.) 



Myihhma suhporphyrea, "Wlk. xv. 1658 (1858) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 76. 



2 . Head and tegula) rufous ; thorax rufous mixed with grey ; 

 abdomen ochrcous tinged with fuscous. Fore wing purplish rufous 

 slightly irroratcd with grey ; the subbasal line obsolete ; the ante- 

 medial line indistinct, fuscous, slightly angled outwards below costa 

 and excurved below the cell ; the stigmata completely absent ; the 

 postmedial lino indistinct, fuscous, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved between veins 5 and 3, then oblique ; a subterminal 

 greyish line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at median 

 iiervules. Hind wing ochrcous suffused with brown, the underside 

 with the costal area suffused with rufous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Georgia (? Ahbot), 2 $ type. Exp. 46 millim. 



*771. Agrotis tepperi. 



Agrotis icppcri. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 452 (1887) ; id. Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 77. 



White, sparsely irrorated with black ; tegulaj tipped with black. 

 Fore wing with the lines single, fuscous ; the anteraedial line 

 obliqiie, slightly excurved ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, 

 ill-detiued, the former small, round, the latter moderate, defined by 

 black below and on outer side ; postmedial line sinuous, distinctly 

 angled beyond the cell; subterminal line broad, diffused, remote 

 from termen but nearly parallel to it ; a distinct terminal series of 

 dark spots. Hind wing whitish, tinged with fuscous towards 

 termen ; the underside white with dark irroration. 



Hah. U.S.A., Montana. Exji. 34 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



772. Agrotis annularis. (Plate LXXI. fig. 28.) 



Axylia annularis, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 265 (1891). 

 Agrotik transjecta, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 220 (1898). 



Head and thorax ochrcous mixed with rufous, and the latter more 

 or less strongly with black ; palpi black at sides except at tips ; 

 abdomen brownish ochreous, with blackish lateral stripes. Fore 

 wiug ochreous slightly suffused with rufous ; the veins and inter- 

 spaces rather obscurely streaked with brown ; a prominent diffused 

 black streak in base of submedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 represented by a striga from costa and an indistinct line angled 

 inwards on vein 1 and very strongly outwards above inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform small with pale aunuli, the former round, 

 t/he cell before and between them black, and with black streaks 



