AGROTIS. 461 



at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black point?!. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown with a slight reddish tinge ; cilia grej'ish 

 with a brown line at base ; the underside grey irrorated with 

 brown ; a sinuous postraedial line and diffused subterminal band. 

 Bab. Japan, Tokio {Maries), 1 $ type. Exp. 42 millim. 



792. Agrotis deplorata. (Plate LXXII. fig. 10.) 



Agrotis deplorata. Stand. Iris, ix. p. 241 (ISOfi) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. 

 Agrotis sennina, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 241 (1896). 



Head and tegula; grey; palpi fuscous except at tips ; tegula? with 

 black band.s near base and at extremity; thorax blackish, the scales 

 slightly tipped with grey ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous black ; the subbasal 

 line represented by two oblique strife from costa ; a black streak 

 below cell from near base to the indistinct double, waved, ante- 

 medial line which is angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 represented by slight black marks at its base and extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, rounded, greyish, with slight pale 

 annuli defined by black with some black suffusion in cell before and 

 between them ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the 

 subterminal line obscurely defined by fuscous on inner side, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; the cilia white, with brownish line at base ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. sennina. Head and tegula; browner ; fore wing darker. 



Hah. Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 d , 1 $ . Exp. 44 millim. 



793. Agrotis senna. 



Noctua se«»a, Geyer, Saraml. Eur. Scliniett. i. ff. 771-2 (1S27); Buisd. 



Icoiies, pi. 77, f. 4 ; Dup. L6p. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 183, pi. 18. f. 2 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lcp. pal. p. 130. 

 Agrotis valdensis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 63 (1829j. 



Head and tegular reddish brown mixed with grey, the latter with 

 medial black band ; thorax black-brown mixed with grey ; tarsi 

 with white rings ; abdomen grey-brown, ventrally grey irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing brown thickly irrorated with grey; a 

 double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, where 

 there is a black streak from it to the double, waved, antemcdial line ; 

 claviform small, slightly defined by black and grey or almost 

 obsolete ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, the former 

 round, a black fascia or suffusion in the cell before and between 

 them ; the postmedial line black, defined by grey on outer side, 

 minutely dentate, and produced to grey points on the veins, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold to the 

 reniform and incur\ cd below vein 4 ; the subterminal line grey, 

 minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 



