388 NOCTTTIDiE. 



Hah. Britain, England, Leech Coll., N.Wales (Salvage); France, 

 Sand Coll. ; Denmark {Dohlmann) ; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; 

 Switzerland ; Spain ; Italy ; Scandinavia ; Russia, Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Greece (Merlin) ; W. & C. Asia ; Egypt, Cairo 

 (Floiuer) ; Pdnjab, Dharmsala (HocHng), 1 5 . E.vj). 52-60 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 100; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 26, pi. 140. 



Pale green to dull brown ; dorsal line pale ; a subdorsal series of 

 blackish longitudinal marks on somites 4-11, with a pale line below 

 them ; subspiracular line pale ; head pale brown with dark markings. 

 Food-plants : Brasska, Taraxacum, Hume.v, etc. 9-5. 



668. Agrotis coUaris. (Plate LXIX. fig. 30.) 



Agrotis collaris, Grote & Eub. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 348, pi. 7. f. 53 

 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74. 



Palpi brown, their extremity and frons whitish ; vertex of head 

 and tegulse black ; thorax purple-grey, the scales tipped with pale 

 grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen fuscous irrorated with grey. Fore 

 Aving dark purple-grey irrorated with brown ; a subbasal grey line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; a grey anteraedial line defined by 

 brow'D on outer side and slightly bent inwards to costa ; claviform 

 small, more or less completely outlined in black ; orbicular and 

 reniform purplish grey with pale grey annuli, the former oblique V- 

 shapcd, open above, the latter constricted at middle ; quadrate black 

 spots in the cell before and between the stigmata ; a medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line grey, 

 defined by brown on inner side, curved from costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; an inwardly diffused dark subterminal line angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; an indistinct series of terminal 

 points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside with discoidal lunule and traces of curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., New York, 2 c? , 1 S , New Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts, Colorado (Cockerell), 2 d . Exj). 36 millim. 



669. Agrotis stentsi. (Plate LXIX. fig. 31.) 



Jffroiis stentzi. Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 367, pi. 4. f. 4; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pa], p. 142. 

 Ochropleura triangularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 55; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



ii. p. 189. 



Head and thorax pale purple-brown ; vertex of head and basal 

 half of tegulaj ochreous white, the terminal half of tegute with semi- 

 circular black patch ; fore tibias and tarsi ochreous white above ; 

 abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing purple-brown to nearly black ; 

 the costal area ochreous white, wath slight dark streaks on it to the 

 postmedial line, extending to just below cell at base ; a black streak 

 in base of submedian fold expanding into a triangular subbasal 

 patch ; a pale sinuous autemedial line from costal area to inner 

 margin, with a blackish point on its outer edge representing the 

 claviform ; orbicular oclireoua or ochreous-whitc, triangular, confluent 

 with costal area, defined by black and emitting a streak beloAV the 



