14 VARIETIES otf 



6\ var. obliviosa, Walker (<Lep. Het.', x., p. 340). " $ & $ . 

 Fawn-colour. Abdomen pale testaceous. Fore wings with blackish 

 costal marks and with double transverse undulating blackish lines ; 

 discal spots with black borders ; claviform lanceolate, resting on the 

 first band, orbicular oval or nearly round, much smaller than the 

 reniform, which has the usual form ; these marks are occasionally 

 more or less obsolete, and especially so in the $ ; a row of black 

 marginal lunules. Hind wings of the male, white ; of the female, 

 whitish." " Cape (South Africa)." 



e. var. correcta, Walker (' Lep. Het.', x., p. 345). " $ . Brown, 

 whitish beneath. Abdomen very pale brown, hind borders of the 

 segments whitish. Fore wings dark brown, with black and pale costal 

 marks and marginal lunules ; spots like the rest of the wing in colour 

 but with black borders ; claviform rather long and narrow ; orbicular 

 round, hardly half the size of the reniform, which has the usual shape ; 

 transverse lines just perceptible. Hind wings whitish, veins and 

 border brownish." "North India." 



. ? var. ingrata, Btl. I have no doubt that the type of Butler's 

 ingrata from Yokohama is another variety of segetum with a dark 

 costa. I have almost identical British specimens. The original 

 description of the type is : " $ . Primaries above, dark smoky grey 

 with black-speckled, irregular white internal border ; discoidal spots 

 black-edged, a short black dash below the cell ; a large whitish patch 

 at base of internal area, two irregular brown-edged white lines* across 

 the basal area ; apical third of costa white-spotted, a series of black 

 marginal spots. Secondaries, sordid-white with dusky borders. 

 Thorax pale grey, abdomen brownish-testaceous, whitish at base. 

 Wings below paler, with black-speckled costal area, black disco- 

 cellular and marginal spots ; primaries with whitish internal border, 

 body greyish. Expanse of wing, 1 inch 8 lines." "Yokohama" 

 (' Lep. Het. in Brit. Museum,' p. 27). The $ is most distinctly 

 segetum of a pale whitish-grey or testaceous colour, with 3 dark 

 stigmata, and the costa throughout its length shaded with dark 

 blackish- brown ; the hind wings white. 



Agrotis, Och., lunigera, Stphs. 



The type of this species is described by Stephens in his ' Illustra- 

 tions Haust.,' vol. ii., p. 113, as follows : " Fore wings of a rich 

 fuscous colour varied with yellowish, with an angulated black streak 

 at the base united to an abbreviated pale striga ; behind this, at a 

 distance from the anterior stigma, is a transverse yellowish waved 

 striga bordered on each side with dusky, and very much angulated 

 towards the inner margin; a similar striga arises from the costa 

 opposite to the posterior (reniform) stigma, and bending outwards, 

 turns rather suddenly to the inner edge, the space between the arch 

 and stigma being yellowish, or dull ochreous-brown ; near the hind 

 margin is a pale waved streak, and the margin itself is spotted with 

 black, with a pale griseous line at the base of the cilia ; the anterior 

 stigma is dusky towards the costa, and bright yellowish towards the 

 inner margin of the wing, forming a lunule of the latter colour ; the 

 posterior stigma is margined anteriorly with black and yellowish, 



*These do not appear to be developed in a single specimen named ingrata 

 in the Museum collection. 



