132 NOCTUID^. 



232. Agrotiphila quieta. 



Noctua quieta, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 485 (1827); Guen. Noct. ii. 



p. 193, pi. 7. f. 11; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 219; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 295. 

 Aiiarta schoenherri, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 950 (1840) ; ab. nigricans, Auriv. 



Nord. Fjar. p. 177 (1888). 

 Anarta constricta, Wlk. xi. 701 (1857). 

 Anarta rigida, Wlk. xi. 701 (1857). 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, with some grey hair 

 tinged with olive. Fore wing grey, thickly irrorated with black- 

 brown, the diseal and submedian folds tinged with olive ; a black 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 strong defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards below 

 costa, excurved below cell, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards 

 above inner margin ; the cell black on median area, with the stig- 

 mata white, rather small, the orbicular round : the postmedial line 

 strong, defined by whitish on outer side, dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, incurved at diseal fold, angled outwards at vein 4, then 

 incurved and slightly angled outwards at vein 1 ; the subterminal 

 line represented by a dentate black mark below costa, two at 

 middle and one above tornus ; a terminal series of black lunules ; 

 cilia chequered black and grey. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 fuscous brown, leaving an indistinct pale postmedial band ; cilia 

 white, the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, a black dis- 

 coidal lunule and some suffusion on terminal area. 



2 , Fore wing with the medial area darker and with a blackish 

 fascia on it in submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. nigricans. Much darker ; fore wing suffused with black. 



Hah. Norway, Einmark, 2^,2 $ ; Lapland, 1 d" , 1 $ ; Arctic 

 America, 2 c? , 1 $ , types constricta and rigida. Exp. 28-30 

 millim. 



Sect. II. {AgrotiphUa). Antennse of male ciliated ; fore wing broader. 



A. Fore wing with white sti-eak in medial part of submedian fold. 



a. Hind wing black microreas. 



b. Hind wing whitish, the marginal area suffused with 



fuscous alasccs. 



B. Fore wing without white streak in submedian fold. 



«. Fore wing with the orbicular V'shaped, open above stauclingeri. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular rounded. 



a? . Fore wing witli the gronnd-coloiu- black and grey-white, maculatu. 



b^. Fore wing with tlie ground-colour olive or ochreous 



bro\Mi Colorado. 



233. AgrotiphUa microreas. (Plate LIX. fig. 14.) 

 Agrotis microrecis, Meyr. Faun. Hawaiensis, i. p. 143 (1899). 



$ . Head and thorax clothed with black and rufous hair, some 

 white on base of antennae and a streak on patagia ; legs black and 

 white with some rufous hair ; abdomen black, the ventral surface 

 with some ochreous hair. Fore wing black suffused with rufous ; 

 the veins black ; vein 1, the median nervure, veins 3, 4, 6, and ex- 

 tremities of 7, 8 defined by white streaks ; the orbicular and reni- 

 form black and rufous, defined by white in the cell before the 



