410 NOCTIJIDyE. 



anuuliis and often a black patch in lower extremity ; an oblique 

 sinuous medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a pale 

 subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, defined on inner side by a rufous patch at costa, then by 

 small spots ; a crenulate terminal line ; cilia rufous, with dark line 

 near tips. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia rufous ; the under- 

 side pale purplish red irrorated with fuscous, and with curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Neav Hebrides, 1 J type innocua. Coll. H.M.S. ' Herald '; 

 N. S. Wales, Moreton Bay (JDigr/les), 2 S , types reciproca and 

 hreviusnda, Sydney ( Wood), 1 2 type, (Em/nor) 13 c? , 6 § ; 

 YiCTOKiA, Gisborne (Lyell), 1 (5,2 $ ; Tasmania (Smith), 1 $ type 

 quadrata; New Zealand {Oxley, SJcelton, Colenso), 2 c? , 1 $ , types 

 immunis and communieata, typet 6 (fcetina in Coll. Rothschild. 

 E,V2^. ;-i6-;58 milHrn. 



Larva. Lidgett, Transfoi'niations of Australian Lepidoptera, p. 15. 

 Elongate, tapering anteriorly, the anal somite slightly humped ; 

 ochreous ocellated with fulvous ; the two anal somites with black 

 subdorsal stripes and the terminal somite with lateral stripe ; 3rd 

 to 9th somites dorsally orange shaded with brownish, defined by a 

 narrow black stripe ; a broken dorsal line ; the rest of larva drab 

 or slaty brown with a rather broad pale lateral stripe. Head small, 

 with an H-shaped yellow mark in front, laterally dilated and ocellated 

 with yellow ; ventral surface, legs, and claspers claj'-yellow. 

 Length l-L inches. Food-plant, Urtica. 



Pupa pale red ; the wing-covers with fine black lines indicating 

 the veins ; segmental incisions defined by bands of deep shining 

 punctures. 



Cocoon formed of a few leaves of food-plant drawn together by 

 silk and cemented to box. 



*703. Agrotis herculeana. (Plate LXX. fig. 19.) 



Noctua herculeana, Scbaus, J.N. Y. Ent. Soc. \i. p. 107 (1898). 



2 . Head and tegula red-brown mixed with grey ; thorax purple- 

 brown mixed with grey ; i^ectus, legs, and abdomen fuscous mixed 

 with grey. Fore wing pale grey-brown irrorated with purple- 

 brown, the basal and medial areas purple-brown ; a double, waved, 

 black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, the outer line 

 stronger ; a double antemedial line commencing as two strong black 

 strigse from costa, then oblique to vein 1, where there is a black 

 point before it, then excurved to inner margin ; the orbicular 

 purplish fuscous, open V-shaped, the reniform large, cream-colour 

 irrorated with black, the cell before and between the stigmata black ; 

 traces of a waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; a double 

 minutely waved postmedial line with a series of dark points on the 

 veins beyond it, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being 



