406 koctuidyjE. 



line upward from eye broad, not darker than the reticulations. 

 Body brown, finely mottled on a greenish ground ; dorsal line white, 

 narrow, developed into a series of white specks on the centres of the 

 segments, often conspicuous. Cervical shield brown, cut by whitish 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines. Subdorsal line narrow, white, defined 

 b}' obscure brown shades ; substigmatal band broad, white, similarly 

 defined, faintly brownish filled, distinct from the darker subventral 

 region. Spiracles black-rimmed. 

 A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



696. Agrotis leiicogaster. 



Noctua leucogaster, Fit. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. i. p. 38, pi. 21 (1831) ; Boisd. 

 Icones, pi. 83. f. 6 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 222, pi. 20. f. 5 ; Herr.- 

 Scbaif. Sclimett. Eur., Noct. f. 1 ; Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. 



Head and thorax grey, thickly irrorated with red-brown, and 

 with two brown spots between antenna? : palpi dark rufous except 

 at tips; tegulpe whitish tinged with rufous to brown-pink, a black 

 patch at base ; fore tibiae and tarsi whitish ; mid tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish ; abdomen white, tinged with purplish red towards ex- 

 tremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing silky purplish brown, 

 the costal area white tinged with purplish pink to beyond middle 

 extending to middle of cell ; a black-brown streak in lower part of 

 cell extending to submedian fold from base to origin of vein 2 ; 

 orbicular and reniform very small, with fuscous centres and white 

 annuli, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter with the black streak 

 extending beyond it as a small triangular spot ending in a short 

 ochreous streak, sometimes with another above it ; the postmedial 

 line represented by an oblique series of black points on the veins from 

 vein 4 to inner margin ; the subterminal line sometimes represented 

 by slight dark marks, the terminal area rather darker and irrorated 

 with grey, a terminal series of small black spots with grey on their 

 inner sides. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the underside with 

 the costal area suffused with purplish pink, a postmedial series of 

 black points on the veins and a terminal series in the interspaces 

 of the costal half. 



Hah. S. Europe, S. France, Zeller & Frey Colls., Dalmatia, Leech 

 Coll.; Palestine. Exj^j. '^G miWira. 



Larva. Mill. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xiv. p. 327, pi. 74. ff. 6-8. 



Head orange, striated with brown ; dorsal area dull olive-brown, 

 the dorsal line grey ; stigmatal line white, the stigmata edged with 

 black; the sublateral area yellow; the ventral area blue-grey. 

 Food-plant, Lotus. 



*697. Agrotis plectiiia, 



Agrotis plectina, Mssn. Stiibel's Eeise, p. 144, pi. vi. f. 28 (1890). 



$ . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; tegulce yellow, with 

 dark brown terminal band ; abdomen greyish yellow, the ventral 

 surface ochreous ; tarsi brown ringed with ochreous. Fore wing 

 brown ; the costal area yellowish white to the postmedial line ; a 



