OPIGENA. AGEOTIS. 



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■with some oehreous scales and the dorsal crests tipped with ochreons, 

 the tegulse with black medial line and the patagia with black line 

 above ; tibiae and tarsi blackish, with whitish riugs ; abdomen 

 oehreous, suffused and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing purplish 

 rufous, the inner half of medial area suffused with oehreous ; a 

 double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, 

 filled in with oehreous and with some oehreous and black beyond it 

 below the cell ; a double, oblique, waved black antemedialline, filled 

 in with oehreous and slightly angled outwards below costa ; clavi- 

 form defined by black above ; orbicular and reniform wirh oehreous 

 centres and slight oehreous annuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique, elliptical, the lower part of cell before and between them 



Fig. 68. — Opigcna 2'>ohjgona, 1^ , \. 



black ; a slight oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the subterminal line double, minutely dentate, bent out- 

 AA'ards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold, incurved 

 below vein 4, the veins beyond it with slight oehreous streaks ; the 

 subterminal Hue oehreous, minutely waved, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by two small 

 dentate black marks and a few scales at middle ; a brown terminal 

 line. Hind wing yellowish tinged with brown, the veins brown ; 

 cilia pale yellow, with brownish line at base ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown, traces of a sinuous postmedial 

 line distinct on costal area. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Tirol, 

 Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy ; ilussiA, Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Pontus, Taskent, 1 c? ; Turcomania; Siberia. Eccj). 

 38-42 millim. 



Larva. Kirhy, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 189. 



Green ; a dark green lateral stripe edged with white ; a whitish 

 subbasal line on thoracic somites. 5. 



Genus AGROTIS. 



Type. 

 Agrotis, Ocbs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 66 (1816), non descr. ; Treit. 



Schmett. Eur. v. (1) p. 125 (1825) rectangula. 



Graphiplwra, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 68 (1816), non descr. . ravida. 

 Caradrina, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 80 (1816), non descr. ; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. (ii.) p. 246 (1826) glareosa. 



Noctua, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. p. 206 (1825), nee Linn ravida, 



Diarsia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 222 (1827) dahii. 



Megasema, Hiibn. Verz. p. 222 (1827) triangulum. 



Ochrojjleum, Hiibn. Verz. p. 223 (1827; mtisiva. 



