500 MR. J. H. LEECH ON THE [Nov. 19, 
Agrotis ingrata, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 162 
(1878); Ill. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pl. xxix. fig. 9 (1878). 
Several specimens, coll. Pryer. 
I took this species at Nagasaki in May, Sakata in August, Nikko 
in September, and Oiwake in October, and Mr. Smith at Hakone in 
August. 
Yokohama (Pryer and Manley) ; Gifu (Pryer) ; Oiwake, Nikko, 
Nagasaki, Sakata (Leech) ; Hakone (Smith) ; India, Europe. 
120. AGRoTIS INFoRMIS, sp. n. (Plate L. fig. 1.) 
3. Primaries pale violet-grey suffused with brownish, basal third 
tinged with tawny ; abbreviated basal line dark edged externally with 
whitish, inner line pale edged externally with darker; outer line 
dark, serrated, curved, edged with paler; orbicular outlined and 
more or less filled up with black ; reniform large, black, and clearly 
defined; claviform black, well developed: secondaries pearly, with 
a black lunule and narrow marginal border. Under surface of pri- 
maries fuliginous with a darker central transverse line ; secondaries 
pearly white, fuscous on costa, central line indicated by some black 
oblong dots on nervures. 
2. In this sex the orbicular is more elongated and the secondaries 
are suffused with fuscous on the outer margin. 
Var. CONFLUENS. 
The reniform and orbicular united, forming a large, somewhat 
triangular, blotch. 
Expanse 44 millim. 
Six specimens, coll. Pryer. 
My native collector obtained four examples at Hakodate in June 
or July. 
Allied to A. exclamationis. 
Yokohama ?, Yesso (Pryer); Hakodate (Nat. Coll.). 
121. AGROTIS OBSCURA. 
Noctua obscura, Brahm, Insektenkal. i. p. 191 (1790). 
Noctua bigramma, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 150. fig. 2. 
Noctua ravida, Hiibn. Noct. fig. 126 (post 1800). 
Agrotis ravida, Treit. Schmett. v. 1. 207 ; Guen. Noct. i. p. 300. 
Graphiphora crassa, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 130 
(1827). 
Graphiphora valida, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 711 
1865). 
: Graphiphora caliginea, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. 
p- 165 (1878). 
Several specimens, coll. Pryer. 
I took examples of this species at Gensan in July and at Oiwake 
in October. My native collector secured a long and variable series 
at Hakodate in July. Several specimens agree with Walker’s G. 
valida and G. caliginea, Butl. Others are exactly identical with 
the typical European A. ravida, whilst others again are not quite like 
