458 NOCTUIDJE. 



form slightly defined ; the orbicular and reniform with fuscous 

 centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former oblique, 

 elliptical ; hind wing tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Russia, ? Urals; Armenia, Caucasus; N. Persia, Schakuh ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, Turcomauia, 1 S , 1 $ j 

 Tarbagatai Mts., Ala Tau, Issyk-kul, Ferghana; E. Turkestan, 

 Hi; Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., Changhai Mts.; Tibet, Kuku-noor. 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



786. Agrotis unimacula. (Plate LXXII. fig. 6.) 



Aqrofis unimacula, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II. xvii. p. 166 (1874). 

 Ar/rotis hnruspica, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 212 (1875) ; Smith, 



Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74. 

 Agrotis augur, yn,v. grandis, Speyer, Stett. eut. Zeit. xxsvi. p. 122 (1875). 



Head and thorax dull reddish brown, the scales with grey tips ; 

 palpi and legs mixed with fuscous ; abdomen grey, thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous. Pore wing grey-brown, irrorated with grey and 

 fuscous ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; an oblique waved antemedial hue ; claviform sometimes with 

 its extremity defined by black scales ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former obHque, U-shaped, open above, almost 

 obsolete, the latter large, usually more or less open above and 

 below and with black spot on its outer edge ; the postmedial line 

 highly dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved; a pale subterminal line angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle, more or less strongly defined by 

 fuscous suffusion on its inner edge ; a terminal series of dark points. 

 Hind wing yellowish browu ; the cilia ochreous ; the underside 

 grey irrorated with brown, with dark discoidal spot and diffused 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Norman, 1 S , Renfrew Co., 4 c^ , 2 $ ; Br. Columbia 

 {Kean), 1 § ; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States, New York, 4 S , 

 4 $ , type haruspica, Montana, Colorado, Utah. Exj). 46-54 millim. 



787. Agrotis augur. 



Nocfua avqnr, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 223 (1781) ; Iliibn. Eur. Schmett.,Noct. 



f. 14S;"Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 73. f. 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 136. 

 Nocttia omega, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 131. f. 2 (1788). 

 Noctua assimulans, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 209 (1790). 

 Koctua hippophaes, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 782 (1827). 

 Agrotis ahdita, J. Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 81 ; Mab. Nov. Lep. 



p. 128, pi. 18. f. 1. 



Head and thorax reddish brown, the scales tipped with grey; 

 palpi and legs irrorated with black ; abdomen grey-brown, tinged 

 with ochreous and irrorated with grey. Pore wing yellowish 

 brown with a slight reddish or greyish tinge, and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an 

 oblique waved antemedial line ; claviform outlined with black or 

 more or less obsolete ; orbicular and reniform outlined with black, 



