368 



KOCTUin^. 



claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former round, 

 a black fascia between them in cell continued beyond the reniform 

 to tbe postmedial line ; an obscure waved medial line from cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, escurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; the subterminal line very indistinct, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale suffused with 

 brown especially on costal and terminal areas ; the veins brown ; 

 cilia white with a brown line through them ; the underside whiter, 

 the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and 

 prominent black apical patch. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing darker. 



Ilab, Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 d" ; N.S.W., Moreton 

 Bay {Biggies), 2 $, type niiida, Sydney (Biggies, Scott, MutJiew), 

 3 d" , 9 $ , type tenebrosa ; Victoria, Gisborne (Lyell), 1 S , Mel- 

 bourne (Lucas), 1 5 ; S. Australia (Bakewell), 1 $ ; Tasmania, 

 2 $ . Exp. 40-50 millim. 



646. Agrotis ypsilon. 



Noctua ypsilon, Eott. Naturf. ix. p. 141 (177')); T)riice, Biol. Centr-Am., 

 Het. 1. p. 281 ; Hmpsn. Moths Incl. ii. p. 182 ; Smith, Gat. Noefc. N. Am. 

 p. 66 ; Staud. Cat. Le.p. pal. p. 1.^1. 



Isoctiia suffusa, Sohiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80(1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 157; 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 147. f. 6; Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 34. 



FJialcBiia idonea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 275 H (1782). 



Bomhyx spiniUa, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 63. if. 6, 7 (1782). 



Noctiia robusta, Blanch. Gay's Ciiile, p. 75, pi. 6. f. 9 (1852). 



Agrotis bipars, Wlk. x. 334 (1856). 



Agrotis frivola, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 169 (1860). 



Agrotis suffusa, var. x^'^poli, Bert. Bull. Ent. Ital. vi. pp. 139-146, pi. iii. 



Agrotis aureolum, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 10/ (1898). 



Fig. 71.— Agrotis gpsilon, (^ . j. 



Head and thorax red-brown, the latter suffused with fuscous ; 

 frons with blackish bar above ; back of head with two black spots ; 

 tegulae with brown and black medial band ; pectus whitish ; tibia) 

 and tarsi ochreous white and black ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore 

 wing ochreous irrorated with brown ; the costal area suffused with 

 fuscous brown, and often the whole wing to the postmedial line; a 

 double, waved, subbasal line from costa to the sul)mediaii fold; a 



