376 NOCTUID^. 



Ab. 1. edda. Much darker; head, thorax, and abdomen grey- 

 brown ; fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown ; hind wing 

 brown. — Shetland Is. 



Ab. 2. limbata. Fore wing suffused with blue-green, the terminal 

 area darker. — France, Gironde. 



Hob. BritaIjST, Shetland (Scdvage), Scotland, Forres (Salvage), 

 England, Leech Coll., Ireland, Derry {Salvage) ; Fkance, Sand Coll. ; 

 Belgium ; Germany ; Switzerland ; Tirol ; jST. Spain ; Italy ; 

 Denmark, Jutland ; Sweden. Exp. 30-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 104; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 32, pi. 141. f. 1. 



Light brown, with dark irroration on sides ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale with dark edges ; spiracular line pale ochreous ; head 

 pale brownish with dark markings. Food-plants : Cytisus, Rumex, 

 Stellaria etc. 9-6. 



659. Agrotis docilis. 



Agrotis docilis, Grote, Bull. Geol, Surv. vi. p. 2o9 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 68. 

 Agrotis ingenicidata,Em\th,'Q\i\\, U.S. Nat. Mus. -38, p. 216 (1890); id. 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. 



Head and thorax clothed with dark brown, black, and white scales 

 and hair ; tegulae with the basal half whitish, defined by a black 

 medial line ; abdomen grey and brown. Fore wing bluish gi'ey, 

 irrorated and in places suffused with brown ; a double, waved, 

 brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 

 line double, waved, bent inwards at subcostal nervure and angled 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform large, brownish, and 



Ficr. 72. — Agrotis docilis, S . -,-. 



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

 scales in centre and defined by black, the former large, oblique, 

 elliptical, touching the antemedial line below costa, the latter large ; 

 the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line irregularly 

 dentate, defined by brown snffusion and with brown patch at costa, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 ; a fine waved black terminal line. 

 Hind wing pale, suffused with brown especially towards termen ; 

 cilia wliitish, with brown line through them ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with brown; a slight discoidalspot and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Snow, Bruce, Codcerell), 1 d" , 3 $ , type. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



