395 



679. Agrotis vidua. 



Agrotis vidua, Stand. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 409, pi. 7. f. 3 (1892) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 139. 



Head and tegulie ochreous ; palpi except at tips, and tips of tegulse 

 black ; thorax purple-brown ; tibice and tarsi above ochreous ; 

 abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous brown. Fore wing brown 

 suffused with purple ; a slight black streak in base of submedian 

 fold ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; 

 a double, waved, antemedial line with a rufous tinge on it; clavi- 

 form with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by the cell being deep black before and between 

 them and with slight reddish-ochrcous annuli, the former oblique ; 

 a slight obhque medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points 

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

 oblique ; the subterminal line represented by a more or less promi- 

 nent series of ochreous points with slight dentate black marks on 

 their inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing yellowish brown ; the underside with some pale irro- 

 ration on costal area, a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Amtjiiland, Ussuri ; W.China, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 5, 

 Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 2 J , Omei-shan, 1 $ , Wa-ssu-kou, 1 (5,1$. 

 E.v^J. 46-52 millim. 



680. Agrotis renalis. (Plate LXX. fig. 6.) 



Ochro2:)leura renalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 55 ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii, 



p. 188. 

 Ochropleura sichjDurpurea, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 35. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with rufous and the scales 

 tipped with blue-grey ; the tegula) sometimes olive-ochreous except 

 at tips ; the metathorax with rufous crest ; abdomen fuscous brown, 

 the anal tuft tipped with ochreous. Fore wing dark brown suffused 

 with purple-grey ; the costal area ochreous or rufous to the post- 

 m.edial line ; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, 

 in which there is a short black streak ; the antemedial line double, 

 waved, excurved above inner margin and with oblique black streak 

 before it in cell ; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former rounded 

 or diamond-shaped, open above, the cell before and between the 

 stigmata suffused with black ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, 

 minutely dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, defined on inner side by an oblique black 

 bar from costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark fuscous brown, 

 wnth fine ochreous line at base of cilia ; the underside irrorated 

 with grey. 



Hah. W. China, Omei-shan, 1 S , type suhpurpurea, Wa-ssu-kou, 

 1 $ ; Punjab, Simla (Harford), 2 J , 2 $ , Halhousie, 1 5 . Exp^ 

 52-60 millim. 



