AGEOTIS. 397 



more ochreous ; the underside with the costal area purplish red 

 irrorated with grey and black, a discoidal lunula and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Amdo, Sinin Mts., 1 c? • Exjp. 38 millim. 



683. Agrotis Mcarnea. (Plate LXX. fig. 9.) 



Noctua bicarnea, G-aen. Noct. i. p. 329 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 71. 

 Mamestra flag lata, Wlk. xxxii. 664 (1865). 



Head, teguloe, and base of patagia more or less mixed with black ; 

 palpi except at extremitj', sides of frons, and vertex of head black ; 

 frons with whitish bar above; thorax grey, more or less tinged 

 with brown or fuscous ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with 

 fuscous, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing purplish fuscous ; the 

 subbasal line pale, defined on each side by black, curved, from 

 costa to vein 1, an ochreous brown-suffused patch on costal area, 

 with black mark below it in submedian fold from the subbasal to 

 the antemedian line, which is pale defined on each side by black, 

 slightly sinuous and incurved to costa ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular 

 and reniform fuscous, with grey annuli and black outlines, the 

 former oblique, elliptical, often open above, the latter open below, 

 the cell before and between the stigmata deep black ; the post- 

 medial line double, defined on each side by black, minutely waved, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique ; some pale 

 points on costa towards apex ; a sinuous subterminal series of 

 small ochreous and black dentate marks with a diffused black patch 

 on costa. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with fuscous brown, 

 uniformly in female, deepening to termen in male ; cilia ochreous 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside paler, with dark 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Canada {Norman), 2 ^ , Renfrew Co., 1 $ , Er. Columbia ; 

 U.S.A., Northern States east of Rocky Mts., Trenton Falls (Doulde- 

 day), 4 § , type plagiata, Massachusetts, Beverly, 5 ^ , 3 $ , 

 Colorado. Exjo. 40-42 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Pi-oc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 317 (1899). 



Head 3*5 millim., pale, distinctly reticulated, the vertical curved 

 band very heavy and nearly black, distinct below, without spot in 

 clypeus ; line from eye distinct on lower half of face. Eody a 

 little flattened, light brown, streaked and mottled with darker 

 brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, narrow, about alike, the 

 former broadly bordered with a dark brown area which is retracted 

 at the incisures, the latter narrowly brown-bordered, thus leaving 

 a pale space between that widens at the incisures ; a broad dark 

 brown suprastigmatal band just enclosing the spiracles, edged 

 below by the whitish, narrow, slightly waved upper line of the 

 substigmatal band, which is pale, faint, reddish, sharply edged, 

 nearly concolorous with the light brown subventral area ; spiracles 

 brown, black-rimmed. Probably a general feeder. — H. G. 1). 



