AGROTIS. 371 



649. Agrotis plana. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 30.) 

 Acj roth plana. Leech, Traus. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 26. 



c^' . Head and tegulse rufous mixed with grey and black ; palpi 

 black at sides ; tegulte with black medial line, with some white 

 scales beyond it; thorax black-brown, the scales and hairs tipped 

 with grey ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous brown, the 

 ventral surface dark brown irrorated with white. Fore wing dark 

 brown snflfused with purplish grey ; the lines indistinct ; the subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa ; the 

 antemedial line angled outwards below costa, in submedian fold, and 

 above inner margin ; claviform almost obsolete ; orbicular and reni- 

 form large, with black centres and pale annuli defined by black, the 

 former round, (he latter somewhat constricted at middle ; the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards in submedian 

 fold ; traces of a waved subterminal line ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing pale brown, whitish towards base and inner 

 margin ; the underside with the costal area strongly irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. W. ChIjSTA, Pu-tsu-fang, 3 S type, Xitou, 1 ^ , Omei-Shan, 

 2 (S . Exp. 38 millim. 



650. Agrotis siibcorticea. 



Agrotis suhcorticea, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 311 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. 

 Agrotis parmda, xllph. Eoiii. Mem. is. p. 9, pi. 3. f. 1 (1897). 



(S . Head ochreous, the antennse and a band between their bases 

 red-brown, the palpi dark, fringed with rufous in front, the lower 

 part of frons purplish red ; tegulse ochreous, with dark brown 

 medial line and reddish tij)s ; thorax fuscous mixed with grey ; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface reddish. Fore wing grey suffused with purplish 

 red, and before the antemedial and subterminal lines with brown ; 

 subbasal line straight from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line double, the inner indistinct, angled outwards below costa, 

 excurved below cell and more strongly above inner margin ; clavi- 

 form represented by a few brown scales at its extremity ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, with fuscous centres and greyish annuli defined 

 by fine brown lines, the former round ; a waved medial rather 

 diffused line ; postmedial line double, waved, bent outwards below 

 costa, somewhat incurved at discal fold, incurved at vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line defined by the brown suffusion before it, slightly 

 dentate at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, then incurved ; a fine terminal line ; 

 cilia brown. Hind wing fuscous brown, rather paler towards base 

 and inner margin ; both wings with a fine yellowish line at base of 

 cilia ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas tinged 

 with brown, a slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hob. Tibet, Amdo, Kuku-noor, 1 cT . Exy. 34 millim. 



