374 NOCXUIDiE. 



open above, connected or separate from the white on median 

 nervure ; reniform with fuscous centre, irrorated with white, and 

 white annulus ; the cell filled in with black -brown before and 

 between the stigmata ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, 

 double, and filled in with pale colour, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, defined by a dark shade on inner side at costa, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small dark 

 lunules. Hind wing pale yellowish suffused with fuscous brown, 

 paler towards base ; cilia whitish, pale brown at base ; the under- 

 side whitish, with the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal 

 area suff'used with brown, an indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, type f in Coll. Piingeler. Eccj). 42 

 millim. 



656. Agrotis miisiva. 



Foctua mn$ii:a. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 118 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 

 ii. p. 212, pi. 64; Steph. 111. Brit Ent., Haust. ii. p. 136; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 143. 



Head and thorax pale purplish, the hairs tipped with grey ; 

 tegulse whitish at base, chocolate-brown at tips ; fore tibise and 

 tarsi whitish above, mid and hind tibiae dark brown. Fore wing 

 red-brown with a purplish tinge, paler towards termen ; the costal 

 area ochreous white to postmedial line, with the veins on it streaked 

 with white ; a black-brown patch below base of cell connected with 

 base by a streak ; a rather indistinct double, waved, antemedial line 

 from cell to inner margin ; claviform minute, indistinct, greyish ; 

 the lower part of cell dark brown, defining the V-shaped yellowish- 

 white orbicular which is open above; reniform fuscous grey, with 

 whitish annulus defined by black at sides ; the postmedial line 

 indistinct, double, miuutel}' waved, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a fuscous patch with pale 

 points on it on costal area before the subterminal line, which is 

 indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 defined on inner side by some pale points ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark points. Hind Aving white, the veins and terminal area 

 tinged with ochreous ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with reddish brown. 



Hah. Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Ausxeia, Frey Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Leech Coll. ; Hungary ; Etjssia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia : Asia 

 Minor, Pontus ; Siberia, Zeller Coll., Altai, Zeller Coll. ; W. Tur- 

 kestan, Fergana ; Ala Tau, Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; Mongolia, 

 Changai Mts. ; Amur ; Kenxei. Exp. 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Rogenhofer, Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxv. p. 799 (1875). 



Head yellow-brown with dark markings and with some pale hairs ; 

 body dark reddish yellow, marbled with dark grey, forming some 

 oblique subdorsal marks ; dorsal and lateral lines dark ; ventral 

 surface greyish yellow. Food-plants : Arahis hirsuta and Taraxacum 

 officinale. 4-5. 



