390 



NOCTUIDJE. 



Head and tliorax pale to deep purple-brown, often mixed with 

 white ; _ palpi black except at extremity ; tcgula) except at tips 

 white tinged with olive ; tibiae and tarsi blackish, ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing 

 pale grey, tinged with purplish brown to deep purple-grey; the sub- 

 basal line double, blackish, curved from costa to vein 1 but interrupted 

 at cell, and with some brown or black suffusion beyond it in sub- 

 median fold ; the aiitomedial line double, oblique, waved and excurved 

 above inner margin ; claviform with its extremity defined by a V- 

 shaped black mark ; orbicular brownish white, defined by black in 



Fig. 76. — Agrotis c-nigrum, (^ . 



the form of a very open V confluent with the brownish-white medial 

 costal area ; reniform rufous above, purplish fuscous below, its 

 centre defined by brown and its outline by black ; a waved medial 

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

 double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved, dentate, and with series of black points at the veins ; a pale 

 sinuous subterminal line with obliiiue black striga on costa, and the 

 area beyond it rather darker ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing ochreous white, tinged with brown especially on the 

 veins, costal, and terminal areas ; the underside with discoidal point 

 and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Kenfrew Co., 2 S , Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 S ; 

 U.S.A., New York, 1 c?, 4 $ , Schenectady (Lintner), 2 $ , Evans 

 Centre (Grote), 1 2 , Illinois {DouUeday), 1 <3 , Kansas {Snow), 2 $ ; 

 Mexico, Jalapa (Boege), 1 c? , 1 $ , (iodman-Salvin Coll. ; C. & S. 

 Europe, Germany, Zeller & Prey Colls. ; Norway, llomsdal, 1 cj" ; 

 KussiA, Livonia, 1 5 ; C. & N. Asia ; Siberia, Schigansk, 1 5 ; 

 Japan, Hakodate, 1 c? , Oiwake (Prger), 1 2 ; Corea, Gensan, 1 1^ ; 

 W. China, Chia-kou-ho, 1 J , 1 $ , Washan, 1 cJ , Ta-chien-lou, 

 1 2 » Chang-yang, 1 § ; N.W. Himalayas, Kulu, Sultanpur 

 {Graham Young), 2 c? , 1 $ , Campbcllpur (Yerhury), 1 5 ? Dharm- 

 sala {Hoclcing), 3 c? , 5 $ ; Sikhim {Lidderdale, Dudgeon), 1 J , 1 § ; 

 NiLGiRis {Hampson), 2 c? , 2 $ . Exp. 36-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 99; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 53, pi. 142. f. 3. 



(Kedescribed.) Head 3'5 mm., light brown, shining, reticulate 

 with dark brown, the curved vertical bands very broad, with strong 

 mottling between at vertex ; line upward from eye strong, with a line 



