608 >"octuidj:. 



middle. Hind wing ochreous whitish, suffused with fuscous brown, 

 the cilia rufous ; the underside whitish, the costal area tinged with 

 purplish red, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. fjnmeri. Almost without the red shades. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, Leech Coll. ; S. France, Frey Coll. ; 

 Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland ; Sweden, Lapland ; ErssiA, 

 Livonia, St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll. ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exji. 

 36-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 106 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 80, pi. 144. f. 2. 



Reddish brown ; sides freckled with grey ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale ; dots minute, black ; head brownish ochreous. Food- 

 plants : birch, Calluna. 9-6. 



1055. Mythimna Indiana. 



Agrotis indiana, Guen. Noet. i. p. 302 (1852). 



2'iracola violacca, Bull. 111. Het. vii. p. 54, pi. 127. f. 5 (1889): Hinpsu. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 196. 



Head and thorax dark purplish red-brown : abdomen fuscous 

 brown, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. , Fore wing purplish red- 

 brown, very sparsely irrorated with white ; a very indistinct obli(|ue 

 waved anteraedial line ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly outlined 

 with red-browu, the former round ; an indistinct diffused medial 

 shade angled on median nervure ; the postmedial line very indistinct, 

 dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; traces of a dentate white 

 subterminal line, with red-brown marks on its inner side ; a fine 

 pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, with ochreous 

 line at base of cilia ; the underside irrorated with white and with 

 indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. India, type t c? iu Coll. Oberthur ; Kashmir {Thompson), 

 1 2 ; XuiTi, Sultanpore (&'. Young), 2 $ ; Kangra, Dharmstila 

 {Hodcin<i), 2 cJ , - $ , type vlolacea. Ea-ji. 52-00 millim. 



1056. Mythimna blanda. (Plate LXXVT. fig. 19.) 



Chocphora hlanda, Grote, Bull. Buff'. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 86 (1875) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 210. 

 Pseudoglcea tcedata, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 18 (1876). 

 Pseudoglaa decepta, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 271 (1881). 



Pale chestnut to grey-brown ; head and thorax with the hair 

 pale at tips ; the thorax sometimes suffused with blackish. Fore 

 wing irrorated with black ; an oblique antemedial blackish line 

 defined by grey on inner side, excurved in cell and to inner margin 

 and incurved in submedian interspace ; orbicular and reniform 

 tinged with fuscous and with pale annuli, the former oblique, the 

 latter large ; postmedial line punctiform, blackish, defined by whitish 

 on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line pale, with series of black points on its inner side, 

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



