AGROTIS. 385 



6'. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 

 a^°. Fore wing with rufous annuli to the stigmata, ohlata. 

 6". For© wing with pale annuli to the stigmata, 

 a". Fore wing with the claviform elongate, 



narrow flavotincta. 



b^^. Fore wing with the ciaviform minute collina. 



b^. Fore wing with black patch below the cell beyond 

 subbasal line. 

 a^. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique, 

 sinuous. 

 a}°. Fore wing with the cell black between the 

 stigmata, 

 a^^. Fore wing with the orbicular large, open 

 above. 

 a^^. Fore wing with the lines distinctly defined 



^y g'"^y mclancliolica. 



b^^. Fore wing with the lines indistinct sarcptana. 



ft^'. Fore wing with the orbicular small, open 



above. , trisignata. 



c^'. Fore wing with the orbicular small, entire... bonsa. 

 b^°. Fore wing with the cell not black between the 



stigmata poliogramma. 



h^. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique. 

 a". Fore wing with the black jjatch below the cell 

 not comma-shaped, 

 a'^. Fore wing with the orbicular open above. 

 a^^. Fore wing with oclireous or grey annulus 

 to orbicular. 

 a^^. Fore wing with veins 2, 3, 4 defined by 



ochreous to the subterminal line albifurca. 



¥^. Fore wing with veins 2, 3, 4 defined by 



grey to the subterminal line agalma. 



6'^. Fore wing with the orbicular fuscous, veins 



2, 3, 4 not defined by ochreous or grey ... suhstrigcda. 

 6^^. Fore wing with the orbicular small, round, 



entire codchs. 



6^°. Fore wing with the black patch below the cell 



comma-shaped limeria. 



665. Agrotis orbona. 



Phalcena orhnna, Hufn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 304 (1767) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 137. 

 - iWtea si(isf5^!«T, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 79 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 106; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 103; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett. ii. p. 329. 

 Noctua conscqua, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 105 (1827). 

 Agrotis sarmata, Ramb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1871, p. 315. 



Head and thorax pale rufous to grey, tinged with rufous ; abdo- 

 men pale brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged with 

 rufous. Eore wing pale rufous to grey, tinged with olive 

 or dark brown or irrorated with black ; an indistinct, double, 

 curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with more 

 prominent striga at costa, a similar antemedial line extending to 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with pale outlines, the 

 former round or oblique and open above ; the postmedial line 

 indistinct, double, waved, with more prominent striae at costa, oblique 

 to vein 4 and slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; 



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