404 NOCTUID^. 



line ; claviform indistinct, its extremity defined by brown scales ; 

 orbicular and reniform with grey annuli and brown outlines, the 

 former large, round, the latter large with some fuscous suffusion in 

 its lower extremity : some darker brown suffusion between the 

 stigmata, a waved medial shade from cell to inner margin, and a 

 dark striga on costa above the reniform ; the postmedial line double, 

 crenulate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, the outer 

 line with black and grey points on the veins ; a subterminal line 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, and with two 

 prominent black points on it below costa. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with brown ; the cilia tinged with rufous ; the underside 

 suffused with rufous especially on costal area ; a discoidal luiiule 

 and sinuous postmedial line sometimes present. 



Ab. 1. hajula. Ground-colour darker brown, much more suffused 

 with grey. 



Ab. 2. punctata. Fore wing with series of black points on the 

 lines. 



Hah. Canada, Eenfrew Co., 3 c? , Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker), 

 3 cT ; U.S.A., K. States, 3d, 4 c5" , Massachusetts, Beverly, 1 $ , 

 New York, Trenton Falls {Douhleday), IS; C. & S. Europe ; 

 BiUTAiN- ; GEEMAiiTY, Berlin, 3 J , 1 $ , Frankfort, 1^,25, Silesia, 

 1 (S ; Italy ; Norway, Geiranger, 2 d ; Edssia, Livonia, 1 $ , 

 Urals ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Ala Tau, Issyk-kul ; Tibet, 

 Amdo ; E. Siberia, Amur, 1 5 , Kentei ; Japan, Yokohama (Jonas), 

 1 2 . E^-ej). 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 106 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 85, pi. 147. f. 1. 



Grey, brown, or reddish brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, 

 with a series of oblique dark marks between them ; spiracular 

 line pale ; a pale bar on somite 12 ; head pale brownish with 

 darker markings. Food-plants : Salix, Hawthorn, Birch, Primula, 

 etc. 9-5. 



*694. Agrotis vibora. (Plate LXX. fig. 15.) 



Agrotis vibora, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Eut. Beige, xli. p. 28 (1897). 



S . Head and tegulse brownish ochreous ; palpi blackish at sides ; 

 thorax deep rufous ; abdomen brownish ochreous, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wdng bright purplish 

 red-brown, the costal area ochreous white to beyond middle, at 

 base extending to just below the cell ; some black below base of 

 cell ; orbicular and reniform small, fuscous with grey annuli, the 

 cell before and between them and just beyond reniform deep black; 

 median nervure streaked with white ; traces of a pale sinuous sub- 

 terminal line ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 semihyeline white, the costal area and termen tinged with brown, 

 the cilia with purplish points towards apex ; the underside with 

 the costal area suffused with rufous, a small dark discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial series of points on the veins. 



llah. Ecuador, Loja, type t S in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 32 millim. 



