AQROTIS, 393 



*67o, Agrotis mysteca. (Plate LXX. fig. 3.) 



Carneades mizteca, Schaus, Tr. Am. Eiit. Soc. sxi. p. 226 (1894). 



$ . Head riifotis slightly mixed with white ; tegulse ochreous at 

 base, shading to white before the large semicircular black terminal 

 patch ; thorax purple-brown mixed with white ; abdomen red- 

 brown, the ventral surface irrorated with ochreous. Fore wing 

 purple-brown ; the costal area yellowish white to the postmedial 

 line ; a black patch below base of cell ; a double antemedial line 

 from cell to inner margin, incurved to vein 1, then excurved ; clavi- 

 form with its upper edges defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 purple-brown, with a few white scales forming the annuli, the cell 

 before, between, and above them black, the orbicular round, the 

 reniform with its outer edge defined by black scales ; a double 

 waved postmedial line, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line represented by 

 diffused patches of grey scales mixed with a few black ones on its 

 inner edge, more prominently black towards costa. Hind wing white, 

 suffused with reddish brown towards margins, the veins brownish, 

 the cilia yellowish with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 with small discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of strise on 

 the veins. 



Hob. Mexico, Jalapa, typef § in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 40 millim. 



676. Agrotis flammatra. 



Noctua Jlamjnatra, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. f. 124 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. ii. p. 169, pi. 60. f. 4 ; Huipsn. Moths Iiid. 

 ii. p. 189 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. 



Agrotis cleleta, Koll. Ins. Pers. p. 53 (1848). 



Agrotis basiclavis, Wlk. x. p. 346 (18o6). 



Agrotis bimacidata, Mill. Cat. i-ais. pt. 2, Suppl. p. 15 (1875). 



Head and thorax grey-brown tinged with purplish red ; palpi 

 dark brown at sides except at tips ; tegulae with semicircular black- 

 brown patch ; tarsi with pale rings to the joints ; abdomen pale 

 grey -brown. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with purplish red ; the 

 costal area usually pale to middle or postmedial line ; the subbasal 

 line represented by slight double striae from costa ; a black streak 

 in base of submedian fold, expanding beyond the subbasal line ; 

 the antemedial line double, waved, almost obsolete on costal area; 

 claviform with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform brownish grey, the former rounded, open above, 

 defined by black below, the latter defined b}^ black on inner side, or 

 with the cell black before the orbicular and sometimes also between 

 the stigmata ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, slightly defined 

 by ochreous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved and slightly angled outwards on vein 1 ; 

 the subterminal line greyish, often defined by slight dentate black 

 marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly dentate 

 at veins 4 and 3 ; traces of a terminal series of black points and a 

 fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous whitish 



