AGEOTTS. 389 



costal fascia to the subbasal black patch; reniform with fuscous 

 centre with ochrcous lunulu on it and ochrcous annulus defined oa 

 inner side by black ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, often 

 deiined by ochreous on outer side, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved at median nervules, then oblique ; the subtermiualline 

 pale, defined on inner side by an oblique black bar at costa, then by 

 some points, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at 

 veins 4, 3. Hind wing fuscous brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more variegated and irrorated with grey ; 

 claviform well developed, defined by black, orbicular with grey 

 centre ; a waved medial line from cell to inner margin. — Kashmir, 

 Punjab. 



liab. Siberia, 1 ?; W. Tukkestan, Ferghana; E.Turkestan, 

 Hi ; Tibet, Amdo ; Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Yokohama {Pnjer, 

 Manley), 1 c? , 2 $ , Chiuzengi (Lewis), 1 $ ; Kashmir, Rala ( J/c- 

 ArtJiur),2(S , 2 5 ,Kokser (McArthur), 2 c5" ,Narkundah (McArtJiar), 

 2 2; KuLU, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 2; Punjab, Simla, 1 .^ , 

 Dalhousie, 1 S , Murrec (Yerbunj), 1 c^ , Dharmsala (HocJcin;/), 4 cJ , 



2 2; Tibet, Yatong (/yoJsoH), 4 J; Sikhim {liussell, Lidderdale), 



3 J , 1 2 , type triangularis. Exp. 36-48 millim. 



670. Agrotis musivula. (Plate LXIX. fig. 32.) 

 Agrof.is musivula, Stand.. Iris, yiii. p. 310 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1-13. 



J . Head and thorax red-brown with a purplish tinge ; tegulse 

 pale rufous at base, with white medial line and black-brown tips ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface blackish, the anal tuft 

 rufous. Fore wing purplish brown, the disk bright red-brown ; the 

 costal area brownish ochreous with red-brown streaks to the post- 

 medial line, extending to just below cell at base ; an olive-brown 

 subbasal patch below the cell ; the antemedial line obsolete towards 

 costa, excurved below the cell and above inner margin, angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres 

 and grey annuh defined by black, the former V-shaped, open above, 

 the cell before and between them tinged with dark olive-brown ; 

 the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined 

 on inner side by diffused blackish at costa, then by a series of small 

 dentate dark marks slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, with darker terminal line and ochreous line at base of cilia ; 

 the underside paler, the costal area irrorated with fuscous. 



Hub. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 c? , Amdo. Exj). 34 millim. 



671. Agrotis c-nigrum. 



Noctuac-nigrum, Linu. Sjst. Nat. x. p. 516 (1758) ; Iliibn. Eur. Scbmett., 

 Noct. pi. 24. f. Ill ; Hmpsn. Motha Ind. li. p. 183 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 139 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 72. 



Bomhyx nun-atrum, Esp. Scbmett. Eur. iii. text p. 385 (1777). 



Noctua gothica, var. siugularis,'Es^. Scbmett. iii. pi. 76. f. 3 (1777). 



