AGEOTIS. 405 



695. Agrotis plecta. 



Noctua jilecta, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (1761) ; HiibD. Sclimett. Eur., Noct. 



f. 117 ; Hinpsn. Moths Lid. ii. p. 183 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74 ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. 

 Ochrojilcura vicaria, Wlk. x. 409 (1856). 

 Agrotis itnimacida. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeif. 1859, p. 213; E.amb. Cat. Syst. 



And.pl. 11. f. 3. 

 OcTiroipUura costccUs, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 56. 

 Agrotis anderssoni, Lampa, Tidskr. 1885, p. 54. 

 Agrotis glaucimacula, Gvas. Berl. ent. Zeit, 1888, p. 321. 

 Ochropleura ignota, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 411. 



Head and thorax purple-red, the head and tegulse pale ; palpi 

 blackish except at extremity ; tegulse black at base ; pectus and 

 legs dark brown, the fore tibiae on outer side and first two tarsal 

 joints, the tips of spurs and tibiae of mid and hind legs whitish ; 

 abdomen doi'sally whitish, more or less tinged with fuscous, the anal 

 tuft fulvous, the ventral surface dark purplish red. Fore wing purple 

 red-brown ; the costal area broadly whitish to beyond middle ; the 

 base of inner area whitish, and the base of median nervure streaked 

 with white ; orbicular and reuiform small, grey, with white annuli, 

 the former round or elliptical, the cell before and between the 

 stigmata and one to three streaks beyond the reuiform black ; a 

 more or less indistinct minutely dentate black postmedial line, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 4 and angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold ; some pale points on costa towards apex; a subtermiual 

 series of small dentate whitish marks angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 pure white ; the costal area usually tinged with fuscous ; a terminal 

 series of dark striae ; cilia yellowish ; the underside with dark dis- 

 coidal point and indistinct postmedial and subterminal lines on 

 costal area. 



xib. 1. Eore wing with the costal area purple, leaving white 

 streaks on subcostal and median nervures. 



Ab. 2. unimacula. Pore wing with the orbicular stigma absent. 



Ab. 3. anderssoni. Hind wing fuscous.- — Sweden. 



Ab. 4. glaucimacula. Fore wing with the stigmata entirely grej', 

 the ground-colour often purplish fuscous ; the hind wing yellowish, 

 often with more or less developed postmedial line and terminal 

 band. — Amur; Japan. 



Ab. 5. ignota. Fore wing with the black in cell absent. 



Hah. Canada, ^^ova Scotia (Bedman), 1 S ; U.S.A., Eastern 

 States, Massachusetts, Beverly, 2 ^ , 4 $ , iSTew York, Trenton 

 Falls, 1 §, Texas; Britain; Fhance; GrERMANr, Zeller & Frey 

 Colls. ; Spain ; Corsica ; Italy ; Scandinavia ; Eussia, Livonia, 

 1 5 ; Aemenia ; Amuk, 2 c? , 2 § ; Japan, Hakodate (Pryer), 2 c? ; 

 CoKEA, Gensan (Leech), 1 c? ; Sikhim, 2 (S , 2 5 , type costalis ; 

 Ceylon (Fairlie), 2 S type ignota ; C. Colony (Dr. SmitJi), 1 cJ 

 type vicaria. ExiJ. 34 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 95 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 40, pi. 141. f. 2. 



(Redescribed.) Head 2-5 millim., shining pale brown, reticulate 

 in darker brown, ventral bands straight, broad, confluent centrally ; 



