ETJERETAGROTIS, 



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at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of white points at extremities of veins, with small 

 blackish spots between them. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish : the underside whitish, the costal 

 area irrorated with brown and tinged with rufous towards apex, 

 a small discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and terminal band. 



Ab. 1. hehridicola. Fore wing paler and almost without rufous 

 tinge. — Hebrides. 



Ab. 2. scoparice. Much darker, almost black. — France. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Frey & Sand Colls. ; Belgium; 

 N. Spain. Erp. 32-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 96 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 359, pi. 133. f. 2. 



Green or pinkish brown with darker irroration ; dorsal line 

 whitish with dark edges ; subdorsal line whitish, black-edged above ; 

 spiracular line broader, ochreous white, sometimes dark-edged above ; 

 head pale yellow-brown with darker markings. Food-plants : 

 Calluna, Erica. 9-6. 



Sect. III. Antennte of lUcale ciliated ; fore wing broad. 



A. Fore wing with the cell filled in with black. 



a. Size large ; thorax with the crests prominently pale sigmoides. 



b. Size smaller : thorax with the crests more concolorous ... fcrattcnfa. 



B. Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black. 



a. Fore wing without diffused brown in and below cell attenia. 



h. Fore wing with diffused brown in and below cell fuseostigma. 



1110. Eueretagrotis sigmoides. 



I^octua sigmoides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 325 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 60. 



Head and tegulse and patagia deep red-brown, largely mixed with 

 black, the tegulse deep black at extremities, and the tegulae and 

 patagia with pale edges above ; vertex of thorax brownish grey ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen pale rufous irrorated with black. Fore 

 wing ochreous suffused with rufous and fuscous brown ; a diffused 



Fig. 118. — Eueretagrotis sigmoi'lff, c? . 1 . 



black streak below base of cell ; a double subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold sharply angled outwards below costa ; a double, 

 waved, antemedial line ; claviform defined by black above ; orbicular 

 and reuiform greyish or brownish, defined by black and with the cell 

 before and between them black ; the postmedial line double, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, and 



