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NOCTriD^. 



647. Agrotis tocionis. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 28.) 

 Agrotis tokionis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 178. 



Head and thorax reddish brown ; palpi blackish at sides ; tegulse 

 with black medial line, the posterior part purplish grey ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown. Fore wing grej' -brown or reddish brown ; the costal 

 area suffused with black ; the cell suffused with purplish grey except 

 the lower medial part ; a double black subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold, interrupted at cell ; a double antemedial line angled 

 outwards below costa and cell and more strongly above inner 

 margin ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form purple-grey defined by black, the former diamond-shaped or 

 with its outer side produced to a point, the latter large and with 

 short black streaks from its outer edge ; the postmedial line double, 

 dentate, produced to black and pale points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the veins of 

 terminal area streaked with black ; the subterminal line pale, 

 minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 the area beyond it tinged with fuscous ; a terminal series of small 

 black spots. Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces sometimes 

 paler except towards costa and termeu; cilia ochi-eous brown ; the 

 underside paler, with slight discoidal point and indistinct curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hcib. Japak, Tokio {Maries, Jonas), 2 cJ , Yokohama (Manley), 

 1 d , 2 5 , Oiwake {Prycr), 4 c? , 2 $ , Kiushiu, 1^,2$. Exp., 

 6 44, $ 50 millim. 



648. Agrotis geniculata. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 29.) 



Agrotis geniculat a, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 349. pi. 7. f. o4 

 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 6(1 



Head and thorax grey mixed with purplish fuscous ; palpi black 

 at sides ; sides of frous with black spots ; tegulae with black medial 

 line ; abdomen grey and brown. Fore wing bluish grey, largely 

 suffused with brown ; a double, waved, black subbasal line from 

 costa to vein 1, where it is recurved to base ; a double antemedial 

 line acutely angled outwards below costa and above inner margin, 

 excurved in and below cell ; claviform well developed and defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, and with 

 the cell black before and between them, the former open above, the 

 latter moderate ; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, dentate inwards to the reniform in diseal 

 fold and incurved in submedian fold; the terminal area darker; 

 the subterminal line grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards 

 in diseal fold, then excurved ; a terminal series of small lunules. 

 Hind wing pale, strongly suffused with brown, the terminal area 

 darker ; cilia white, brown at base ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with brown ; a dark discoidal point ; the terminal area suffused 

 with brown. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Middle States, 

 Massachusetts, 1 c?, 1 $ , Washington. Exjj. 38 millim. 



