AGEOTIS; 391 



behind it. Body brown, finely mottled on a cream-coloured ground ; 

 cervical shield a shade darker, not shining, unlined. Dorsal line 

 whitish, nearly obsolete ; subdorsal brown ; oblique shades forming 

 subdorsal dashes on joints 5 to 9, then becoming cuneiform patches, 

 the pair on joint 12 largest and joined behind by a fine transverse 

 line ; faint oblique lateral shades in reversed direction. Substig- 

 matal band broad, faint, pinkish, obsolete in the incisures, not 

 very strongly edged, but not shading into the subventral area which 

 is dark. Spiracles white, in blackish areas. A general feeder. — 

 H. G. D. 



672. Agrotis degenerata. (Plate LXX. fig. 1.) 



Agrotis degenerafa, Stand. Stett. eut. Zeit. 1889, p. 26; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 139. 



S • Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulaB whitish 

 with brown tips ; palpi except at tips, pectus and legs grey-brown ; 

 abdomen ochrcous white, the anal tuft tinged with rufous, the ven- 

 tral surface with brown. Fore wing brownish grey, with slight 

 dark irroration ; the subbasal line represented by a dark striga from 

 median nervure, defined by grey on outer side, beyond which is a 

 diffused brown patch with a black striga above it in cell ; the ante- 

 medial line indistinct, oblique, slightly sinuous ; orbicular brownish 

 white, V-shaped, open above ; reniforni brownish white, ill-defined, 

 its centre defined by brown, the cell before and between the stigmata 

 olive-brown ; the postmedial line represented by slight points on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; some pale jDoints on costa towards apex ; the subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by a brown bar from costa, 

 then by small spots, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, the area beyond it rather darker ; some dark points on 

 termen. Hind wing ochreous white, the apical area and apical half 

 of termen tinged with fuscous ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul, 1 c5"; E. Tuekestan", Kashgar. 

 Exj). 38 millim. 



673. Agrotis deraiota. (riate LXX. fig. 2.) 



Amathcs c-m'gruni, Hinpsii. 111. Het. ix. p. 94, pi. 170. f. 4(1893), neo Linn. 

 Agrotis deraiota, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. .N. H. S(Jc. 1902, p. 198, pi. B. f. 7. 



cJ . Palpi and frons brown and grey, the latter with black bar ; 

 vertex of head and tegulse rufous, the extremity of latter and thorax 

 dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen grey-brown, rufous at 

 extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing pale red-brown 

 suffused with purplish grey ; the subbasal line double, waved from 

 costa to vein 1 and followed by some black scales in submedian fold ; 

 the antemedial line double, waved, oblique and bent outwards to 

 inner margin ; claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform purplish 

 grey, their centres defined by brown, the former in the shape of a 

 very open Y confluent with the purplish-grey costal area, the area 



