AGROTIS. 407 



black fascia below base of cell and a yellowisb-white fascia above 

 base of inner margin ; the subbasal and antemedial lines represented 

 bj' double black striae from costa ; orbicular and reniform well- 

 developed, white defined by black, the former rounded, confluent 

 with costal area, the cell before and between them and the area 

 just beyond the reniform blackish ; traces of a waved medial shade ; 

 postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line defined by a dark shade 

 on inner side and more prominent patch at costa ; a terminal series 

 of dark points. Hind wing pure white. 



Hah. EcTJADOE, Collanes am Altar. Exp. 46 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me; type in Berlin Mus., structural characters 

 examined by Prof. Karsch, 



698. Agrotis signa. 



NoctiM signum, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 65 (1775) ; G-odt. Lep. Fr. ii. p. 209, 



pi. 64. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135. 

 Noctua sigma, Schiif. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776) ; Hiibii. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 122. 

 Noctua characterea, Esp. Schmett., Text, p. 471 (1786). 

 Noctua nubila, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 142. f. 3 (1786). 

 Noctua clitrapezium, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 147. ff. 1, 2 (1786), nee SchifF. 

 Noctua umbra, View. Verz. Schmett. p. 67 (1789). 



Head and tegulge reddish ochreous ; palpi blackish except at tips ; 

 tips of tegulse and thorax black -brown, the scales often tipped with 

 grey ; abdomen blackish, mixed with brown or grey. Fore wing 

 purplish red, more or less completely suffused with fuscous black, 

 leaving the costal area reddish ochreous to beyond the postmedial 

 line ; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold 

 in which there is a short black streak ; antemedial line double, 

 oblique, irregularly dentate ; claviform modei^ate, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and ochreous annuli 

 defined by black, the former round or somewhat quadrate, the cell 

 before and between them more or less suffused with black ; an 

 indistinct oblique waved line from cell to inner margin ; the post- 

 medial line double, dentate, -and produced to points on the veins, 

 filled in with ochreous, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 

 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line ochreous, punctiform, defined 

 on inner side by dentate black marks at middle, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of ochreous and 

 black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia greyish at tip ; 

 the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, 

 sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the costal and terminal area except 

 towards tornus, flesh-colour. 



Hah. Feance, Sand Coll. ; Geemany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; 

 Atjsteia, Leech Coll. ; Switzeeland, Zeller Coll. ; Aemenia ; W. 

 SiBEEiA, Altai ; Amtjrland, Ussuri. Exy. 38-46 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 193. 



Pale copper-coloured, with three pale lines on dorsal area with 



