AGROTIPHILA. 133 



orbicular, and a quadrate ochreous spot beyond it, orbicular round ; 

 an ochreous fascia above vein 1 from before middle to end of cell, 

 where it is bent upwards to the cell ; cilia ^rey, with a black line 

 at base. Hind wing black-brown ; the cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside with the disk greyish. 



Hah. Hawaii, Kilauea (Perkins), 1 5 type. Ewj). 30 millim. 



234, Agrotipliila alascas. (Plate LIX. fig. 15.) 



Agrotis ala&km, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 84, pi. 4. f. 1 (1876) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 110. 



S . Head and thorax red-broAvn, many of the hairs tipped with 

 grey-white ; pectus with brown and grey hair ; abdomen clothed 

 with grey hair towards base, with rufous towards extremity. Fore 

 wing grey irrorated with dark brown ; a short subbasal dark-brown 

 streak above vein 1, and a similar antemedial streak on inner 

 margin ; a whitish streak in submedian fold from before middle to 

 just beyond the postmedial line ; the antemedial line very oblique, 

 whitish ; the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 3, then oblique, the area between the two lines dark brown 

 except the costal area ; the orbicular and reniform very small, 

 whitish, the former oblique, pyriform, the latter bent inwards 

 below on median nervure ; the area just beyond the postmedial 

 line with a slight rufous tinge ; the subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish, angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle, with a 

 series of dentate brown marks on its inner side. Hind wing 

 ochreous white ; the marginal areas irrorated with fuscous brown ; 

 the underside with discoidal point. 



Hah. Alaska, 1 ^ type. Exp. 36 millim. 



235. Agrotipliila staudingeri. (Plate LIX. fig. 16.) 



Agrotis staudingeri, Moschl. Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 132, pi. 1. f. 4 (1862); 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 110. 

 Agrotis montana, Morr. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi. p. 95 (1875). 



Head and thorax dark olive-brown and pale reddish brown, with 

 some white hair on palpi, frons, and edges of tegulae and patagia ; 

 pectus and legs white slightly mixed with brown ; abdomen clothed 

 with fuscous and white hair. Fore wing grey-white, partly suffused 



Fig. '^1 .—AgrotijMla staudingeri, (^ . j. 



Avith pale olive-brown and irrorated with dark brown ; an oblique 

 black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; the antemedial line slightly 

 incurved, extending from subcostal nervure to vein 1 ; claviform 

 small, whitish, defined by black on outer side ; orbicular and reni- 

 form whitish defined by black, the former triangular, open above. 



