394 



NOCTTTIDiE. 



suffused with palo brown ; tho cilia white, with a brown line at 

 base ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a slight discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany ; Austria, Zeller 

 & Frey Colls. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Coksica ; Italy ; 

 Syria, Lebanon {Mrs. NicIioU); Persia; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 $, 

 Leech Coll. ; Kashmir, Narkundah {Mc Arthur), 2 S ; Punjab, 

 Sultanpur {G. Young), 1 S , Hawal Pindi (Yerbury), 2 S , Dharm- 

 Siila {flocTcing), 4 d , 3 $ , Mynpuri, 1 ^ , Allahabad, 1 6 ; Tibet, 

 Yatung (Hohson), 2 $ ; Sikhim (Lidderdale), 1 J, 1 $. Exj). 

 40-60 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 99 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 50, pi. 142. f. 4. 



Uniform green, with pale spiracular stripes. Food-plants ; Ta- 

 raxacum, Fragaria. 9-5. 



677. Agrotis atritegiilata. (Plate LXX. fig. 4.) 

 Agrotis afritcgtdata, Hinpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 261 (1902). 



d" . Head ochreous white ; palpi blackish except at tips ; thorax 

 ochreous white tinged with rufous, the tegulse with large black 

 patch and without rufous tinge ; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous white slightly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing purplish 

 grey, the costal area ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, the 

 costal edge ochreous ; some whitish at base of inner margin ; a 

 deep black fascia in and below cell to the orbicular and thence in 

 the cell to reuiform, which is defined on outer side by black. Hind 

 wing pure seraihyaline white ; the underside with the costal area 

 tinged with ochreous and with some dark postmedial points on the 

 veins. 



Hab. Transvaal (Ross), I cT type. E.vjd. 38 millim. 



678. Agrotis mandarina. (Plate LXX. fig. 5.) 

 Ochropkura mandarina, Leech, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1900, p. 36. 



5 . Head black mixed with brown and grey ; tegulse pale rufous, 

 their tips and the patagia deep rufous ; thorax grey ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen dark brown. Fore wing reddish brown, irrorated 

 with dark brown and sufi'used with purple-grey ; the costal area 

 ochreous with a rufous tinge to the postmedial line ; a black patch 

 below base of cell crossed by the double, curved, subbasal line ; a 

 double obliquely sinuous antemedial line ; claviform with its ex- 

 tremity slightly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform reddish 

 ochreous, their centres defined by brown, the former small, round, 

 the latter with its outer part suffused with dark brown, the cell 

 before and between the stigmata deep black ; the postmedial line 

 double, brown, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the subtermiual line somewhat dentate, 

 rufous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a waved 

 dark terminal line. Hind wing yellowish brown ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with grey. 



Hab. W. China, Chia-kou-ho(Pv««), 1 $ type. £a'j). 48 millim. 



