AGROTIS. 453 



Colls. ; Austria, Zeller Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland ; 

 N. Spain ; Italy ; llassiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai; Amurland, Ussuri ; Corea ; Japan, Yokohama 

 (Prijer), 1 5 , Hakodate (Andreives), 2 5 , Tokio (Maries), 1 $ ; 

 China, Eoo-chan (Leech), 1 J ; Punjab, Dharinsiila (Hoclcimj), 3 S , 

 5 $ , typo triseriata; Sikkui (Lidderdale, Dad(jeon), 2 §. Exji. 

 34-40 millira. 



Larva. Meyr, Brit. Lep. p. 98; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 3, pi. 137. f. 1. 



Pale brown with darker irroration ; dorsal line pale, interrupted ; 

 a subdorsal series of dark greenish-fuscous obliquo marks, more 

 ])rominent ou somites 4, 5, 9, 10, edged below by pale ochreous ; 

 an ochreous bar on somite 11 ; spiracular line pale tinged with 

 pinkish or yellowish ; head browu with darker markings. Food- 

 plants : Stellaria, Atrijylex, Plantarjo, etc. 7-8. 



776. Agrotis coniorta, n. sp. (Plate LXXI. fig. 31.) 



Head and thorax ochreous or whitish largely mixed with l)lack, 

 sometimes tinged Math reddish: tarsi with pale rings; abdomen 

 greyish ochreous suffused with fuscous. Fore wdng greyish ochreous, 

 sometimes tinged with purplish red, and irrorated with luscous ; 

 the subbasal line represented by double black striie from costa and 

 cell ; a diffused black fascia below base of cell ; a double waved 

 antemedial line angled outwards below costa and above inner 

 margin ; claviform represented by a slight black streak ; orbicular 

 and reniform with fuscous centres and pale annuli defined by black, 

 the former a small ocellus, a black fascia in cell before; and between 

 the stigmata; an oblique waved shade from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and jn'oduced to points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved; the subterminal line defined by a blackish patch with 

 pale points on it on costa, before it and the area beyond it blackish, 

 bent outwards to apex and excurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal 

 area tinged with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal 

 point and somewhat dentate postmedial line. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Masailand, El Quaso, 1 $ , El Burgou 

 (Betioii), J , 3 ? type, Lari 1 5 . Kri>. 2G millim. 



*777. Agrotis effracta. (Plate LXXI. fig. 32.) 

 Agrotis ejfracta, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 220 (1898). 



J . Head and thorax brown with a purplish-grey gloss ; teguke 

 with black medial band ; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing 

 dull brown suffused with purplish fuscous, leaving the basal costal 

 area, the inner medial area, and a diffused oblique band from apex 

 to inner margin ochreous brown ; traces of a waved antemedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, the former round, 

 a black fascia between ihem continued in discal fold to termen ; a 



