A6R0TIS. 455 



780. Agrotis catenifera. (Plate LXXII. fig. 2.) 



Agrolis catenifera, Wlk. Tr. N. II. Soc. Gla.sg. i. p. 349 (1873). 



5 . Head and thorax clothed with grey-brown and black scales ; 

 tegulje with blackish streaks; abdomen pale brown, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing grey-brown, slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous; a slight diiSused black streak in base of subiuedian fold; 

 the antemedial line indistinct, waved ; claviform elongate, black ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former nearly round 

 and with fuscous centre, the latter fuscous, the stigmata close 

 together and connected by a fuscous streak ; the jjostmedial line 

 indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, cxcurved 

 to vein 4, then iucurved ; the subtcrminal line represented by an 

 oblique fuscous bar from costa, then by a series of black points on 

 the veins ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and marginal areas suffused with brown. 



Hah. W. Afkica, Congo, 1 5 type. Exp. 42 millim. 



781. Agrotis ravida. 



Fodua ravida, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776); Iliibn. E.ir. Schniett., 



Noct. f. 126 ; Godt. Lep, Fr. v. pi. 66. f. 6 ; Hiiipsn. Moths lud. ii. 



p. 187. 

 JSoctua ohducta, Esp. Sclimett. Eur. iv. pi. 142. f. 4 (1786). 

 Noctua austcra, Esp. Sclimett. Eur. iv. i)l. 142. f. 5 (1786). 

 Noctua higramma, Esp. Sclimett. Eur. iv. pi. 1.^)0. F. 2 (1786). 

 Noctua obscura, Brabui, Ins. Kal. ii. p. I'Jl (1791); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 136. 

 Graphiphora, valida, Wlk. xxxiii. p. 711 (186.^). 

 Agrotis siahulorum, Bienert, Disc. p. 34 (1870); Christ. Rom. Mem. ii. 



pi. xii. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. 

 Agrotis nipona, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 20 (1874). 

 Graphiphora caliginea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (.5) i. p. 165 (1878). 

 Agrotis glis, Christ. Rom. Mem. iii. p. 64, pi. 3. f. 10 (1887) ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 136. 



S . Head and tegulsc red-brown, the latter tipped with grey ; 

 thorax purplish brown mixed with grey ; pectus and legs fuscous 

 brown and grey; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale purplish 

 red-brown irrorated with grey and black, the veins grey irrorated 

 with black ; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold, a more or less prominent black streak from its lower 

 extremity to the double, waved antemedial line, which is blackish 

 filled in with grey ; the orbicular and reniform with white-irrorated 

 centres and greyish annuli more or less prominently defined by 

 black, the former elliptical, a black streak often present before and 

 between them in cell ; traces of a waved medial line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, blackish, 

 filled in with grey, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved in discal fold, 

 oblicjue below vein 4 ; the subtcrminal line greyish, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3 ; some pale points on 

 costa towards apex; a terminal series of black jioints. Hind wing 

 ochrcous white, tinged with brown especially towards termen ; the 



