AGEOTIS. 



37£ 



657. Agrotis exoleta. (Plate LXIX. fig. 28.) 

 Agrotis exoleta, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 26. 



S . Head and thorax dark chocolate, the palpi at tips and lower 

 part of frons ochreous ; pectus and femora with the hair pink ; legs 

 brown, the tarsi annulated with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous, the 

 ventral surface pink except at extremity. Fore wing olive-yellow ; 

 a purple-brown patch at base of costa ; claviform represented by a 

 small rufous spot ; a purplish-brown patch on middle of costa with 

 rufous edges, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge slightly angled 

 below costa, the patch embracing the small orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata Avhieh are defined by rufous, the former oblique, elliptical ; 

 the postmedial line represented by a slight striga from costa and 

 sometimes some points on the veins ; the subterminal line defined 

 by brown sufi'usion before and beyond it, slightly angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine waved brown terminal 

 line. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and cilia yellow. 

 Underside of fore wing pale fuscous, the marginal areas and costal 

 area of hind wing irrorated with blood-red. 



Hah. W. China, Omei-shau, 4 S , type. Exj). 38 millim. 



658. Agrotis glareosa. 



Noctua glareosa, Esp. Scbmett. iv. p. 387, pi. 128. f. 3 (1789) ; Steph. 111. 

 Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 159, pi. 21. f. 1 ; Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. P. 199 ; Mill. le. i. p. 234, pi. 26. ff. 4, 8 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal, 



p. 141 : 



Noctua decempunctata, Vill. Linn. Ent. ii. pi. 5. f. 17 (1789). 



Noctua I-qeminum, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 80, pi. 77. f. 6 (1826). 



Noctua h'ehrmica, Hiibu. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 642 (1827) ; Frev. Neu. 



Beitr. iii. pi. 201. ff. 2,3. 

 Agrotis edda, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 266 (1891). 

 Agrotis limbata, Gouin, Act. Soc. Bordeaux, v. p. 95, pi. iv. f. 5 (1900). 



Head and thorax grey, pencilled with pale brown ; palpi dark 

 brown at sides except at tips ; abdomen grey tinged with ochreous 

 brown. Fore wing grey, tinged with rufous and sparsely irrorated 

 with blackish scales ; the subbasal line represented by deep rufous 

 spots below costa and median nervure ; the antemedial line pale, 

 excurved towards inner margin, with deep rufous spots on its 

 outer edge below costa and median nervure ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by whitish, the former oblique, somewhat quadrate, open 

 above and below, the cell before and between the stigmata deep 

 rufous, traces of a brownish medial shade from cell to inner margin -, 

 the postmedial line whitish, defined by pale rufous on inner side, 

 oblique from costa to vein 7, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the 

 subterminal line whitish, slightly defined by brown on inner side, 

 very slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of dark points usually present. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, the veins atid terminal area more or less tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal point and traces of a postmedial line 

 towards costa. 



