AGR0TI3. 



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Herr.-SchafF. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. ff. 516, 622, vi. p. 59; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 135. 

 Agrotis subcmrulea, Staud. Cat. p. 80 (1871). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with red-brown ; palpi dark brown 

 above; frons black; tegulae with dark medial line ; abdomen grey 

 irroratcd with brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with reddish 

 brown ; a waved subbasal blackish line from costa to siibmediau 

 fold; an oblique waved antemedial line; hardly a trace of the 

 claviform ; orbicular and reniform grey irrorated with brown and 



Fig. 69. — Agrotis suhrosea, (S . \. 



slightly defined by blackish, the former round, the cell before and 

 between them black, or with black fascia above median nervnre 

 with rufous above it ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line defined by dark suffusion on its inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing yellowish, suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown 

 especially on terminal area ; the underside with small discoidai 

 sj)ot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Beitain, fens (olhn); Geemany, E. Prussia; Sweden; 

 Etjssia, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Amtjeland. Eciy. 38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 97; Barrett, Brit. Lep. iv. p. 81, pi. 144. f. 3. 



Eosj^-grey or purplish-grey ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale ; 

 spiracular line bright yellow ; head and thoracic plate red-brown. 

 Food-plants : Myrica, Salix, and Andromeda. 9-5. 



Sect. II. Antennaj of male bipectinate, with moderate branches, the apical 

 part ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform not filled in with black hemilevca. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with black consenianca, 



642. Agrotis hemileuca. 



Agrotis hemileuca, Wlk. Tr. N. H. See. Glasg. i. p. 348 (1873). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi blackish at sides ; tegulte 

 with obscure black medial line ; tarsi handed with black ; abdomen 

 ochreous white, the anal tuft brown, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing red-brown, suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; a 

 dentate black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; a diffused waved 

 antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and very strongly 

 above inner margin ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular 



