400 N0CTIIIDJ3. 



with black spots on its inner side below costa and cell, a black 

 patch beyond it below the cell with a point in cell above its 

 exti'emit}' ; the antemedial line double, the outer blackish and 

 strong from costa to submedian fold, slightly angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and slightly incurved to above inner margin, 

 where it is angled outwards ; claviform with its upper edge defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli defined by 

 black, the former oblique, V-shaped, open above, the latter con- 

 stricted at middle, the cell before and between them black-brown ; 

 the postmedial line double, minutely dentate and produced to points 

 on the veins and with a black striga on its inner edge at costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the 

 subterminal line greyish, slightly defined by brown on inner side 

 and by an oblique black bar from costa, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and. excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small dark points. 

 Hind wing brown ; the cilia ochreous ; the underside pale irrorated 

 with brow^n, a small dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; Peajjce, Sand 

 Coll.; Geemany, Zeller Coll.; Switzerland; Italy; Dalmatia ; 

 Scandinavia : Eussta, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Kashmir 

 {Thompson), 1 S . Exp. 36-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p 100; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 4G, pi. 142. f. 2. 



Ochreous or brown speckled with black; dorsal line pale ; a sub- 

 dorsal series of oblique dark mai'ks on somites 4-11, darker and 

 confluent on 11 and followed by a pale bar ; subspiracular line pale 

 ochreous ; head pale brown with blackish markings. Food-plants : 

 Itumex, Stellaria, Salix, etc. 8-5. 



688. Agrotis ditrapezium. 



Noctua ditrapezium, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776) ; Bork. Schmett. 



Eur. iv. p. 617 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 472 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 139. 

 Noctua tristigma, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. i. p. 243 (1825). 



Head and thorax reddish brown, tinged with vinous red and 

 slightly mixed with whit« ; tegulse with white line near tips ; palpi 

 blackish at sides except at tips ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing purplish fuscous, often 

 largely tinged with red ; the subbasal line greyish, defined by 

 black striaj on each side of it and extending from costa to sub- 

 median fold, where there is a black patch beyond it with an oblique 

 striga above it in cell ; the antemedial line double, angled outwards 

 below costa, oblique, and nearly straight to vein 1 and excurved 

 above inner margin ; claviform represented by a black point at its 

 extremity ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and their 

 centres with brown, the former oblique, elliptical or somewhat 

 triangular, open above, the cell before and between them deep 

 l>lack; an indistinct oblique waved line from cell to inner margin ; 

 the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, and produced to points 

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



