456 Noc'ix'iD.f;. 



veins brown ; the underside white, the costal area irroratcd with 

 brown, a sliglit discoidal point, a black postmedial line on costal 

 area, and series of slight streaks on the veins, 



Ab. 1. stabulorum. Paler; fore wing without the basal black 

 streak, the stigmata not defined. 



Ab. 2. 2 2 ■ Hing wing wholly brown. — Punjab ; Thundiani. 



I/ab. Bjritain, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller 

 Coll.; Switzerland; Italy; Htjssia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus ; Persia; N. Pkrsia; AV. Tvrkestan, Turco- 

 mania, Ferghana, Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Kuldja, 2 c? , 1 $ ; 

 Tibet, Amdo : Siberia; Amurland; Japan, Yokohama (J-'ri/er), 

 3 c? , 4 § , type caliglnea, Oiwake (Pri/er), 1 cj' , 1 5 , Chiuzenji 

 (Leivis), 1 $ , Hakodate, 2 $ , type t $ rnjwna in Coll. Rothschild ; 

 CoREA, Gensan (Leech), 1 5 ; N. China, Shanghai (Fortune), 2 $ 

 type valida ; Kashmir, Dras (Leech), 2 J ; Pcnjab, Thundiani 

 (Yerhury), 2 $ . E.vji. 44-54 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 98 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 386, pi. 136. f. 1, 



Ochreous brown ; dorsal line paler ; a subdorsal series of curved, 

 or sometimes nearl)' straight, oblique, yellowish marks, edged above 

 with fuscous ; head grey, with fuscous markings. Food-plants : 

 Taraxacum^ SteUaria, etc. 0-5. 



782. Agrotis inopinata. (Plate LXXII. fig. 3.) 

 h^octuii mopinatus. Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 103 (1898). 



cT . Head and thorax fuscous brown : antennie rufous ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with fuscous. Fore wing fuscous brown ; an indistinct 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below 

 costa ; an indistinct oblique waved anteracdial dark line angled out- 

 wards below costa and above inner margin, and with small wedge- 

 shaped black marks on it in cell ; orbicular and reniform prominently 

 defined by black, the former round, the latter large ; the postmedial 

 line indistinct, dentate, and produced to ])oints on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale 

 points on costa towards apex. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 pale fuscous, especially on terminal half ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a dark discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 S . LJxj^ 46 millim. 



783. Agrotis sierras. (Plate LXXII. fig. 4.) 



Ayrutis sierra, Haw. Can. Ent. viii. p. 37 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 75. 



<S '. Head and thorax browni, the scales tipped with greyish ; 

 palpi and legs irroratcd with black ; abdomen ochreous mixed with 

 dark brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with grey ; a dark 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 indistinct, angled outwards below costa, then minutely waved and 

 oblique; claviform indistinctly outlined with ])lack ; orbicular and 



