AGEOTIS. 403 



NoctiM mendosa, Hiibn. Schinett. Eur., Noct. fp. 120, 502 (1827). 

 Agroti& ■pontica, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 266 (1891). 

 Agrotis consenescens, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 266 (1891). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey and irrorated with 

 dark scales ; palpi black-brown except at tips ; abdomen ochreous 

 brown irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing 

 grey-brown more or less strongly tinged with rufous and irrorated 

 with black scales ; the subbasal line represented by small black 

 spots below costa and cell ; the antemedial line whitish, oblique, 

 minutely waved, with black spots on its outer side below costa and in 

 and below cell ; claviform with its upper edges defined by whitish ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, defined by whitish, the former oblique, 

 elliptical, open above, a diffused brown medial shade passing between 

 the stigmata ; the postmedial line double, with a series of black 

 points iDeyond it on the veins and with black point on its inner 

 side at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, slightly defined by red- 

 brown on inner side and Avith an oblique dark bar before it from 

 costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small dark luntiles. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 fuscous brown, especially towards termen, the cilia ochreous ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, 

 a small dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. pontica. Fore wing reddish or violaceous grey ; hind wing 

 whitish. — Pontus, Turcomania. 



Ab. 2. consenescens. Fore wing yellowish grey. — Pontus. 



Hah. Britain, England, Wales, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, 

 Zeller Coll.; Switzerland, Frey Coll.; Sweden; Riissia, Livonia, 

 Sarepta ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Turkestan, 1 c? , 

 Issyk-kul. Exp. 40-46 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 104 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 43, pi. 142. f. 1 . 



Dull brown, Avith a dorsal series of darker-outlined diamond- 

 shaped marks ; spiracular line dark, diff'used ; spiracles Avhite with 

 dark edges; subspiracular line ochreous white; head pale brown 

 with dark markings. Food-plants ; Primula, Urtica, Rumex, 

 etc. 9-5. 



693. Agrotis baja. 



Xoctiia baja, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 175 (1787) ; Hilbn. Schinett. Eur., Noct. 



iii. pi. 25. f. 119 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 70. 

 Noctua baja, var. punctata, Auriv. Nord. Fjar. p. 115 (1888). 

 Agrotis hajula, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 411. 

 Agrotis smithii, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxxix. p. 157 (1896). 



Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with purple-grey ; 

 palpi black, pale at extremity ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen pale rufous, greyish ochreous towards base. Fore wing 

 red-brown suffused with purplish grey ; the subbasal line double, 

 waved from costa to submedian fold, with a black point usually 

 present just beyond it in the cell ; a double, waved, antemedial 



