AGKOTIS. 411 



purple-fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous, whitish towards 

 base ; the underside whitish, irrorated with fuscous and tinged with 

 purplish, red towards costa. 



Hah. Mexico, Trojes, typef? in Coll. Schaus. Ex]p. 64niillim. 



704. Agrotis rhomboidea, 



Noctua rhomhoidea, Esp. Schmett., Eur. iv. pi. 149. f. 3 (1790) ; Godt. Lep. 



Fr. V. p. 193, pi. 62. f. 5 ; Frey. Neue Beitr. Schmett. iv. pi. 309. 

 Noctua stigmatica, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. fF. 470, 471 (1827) ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. 

 Graphiphora tristigma, Steph. III. Brit. Eut., Haust. ii. p. 132 (1829). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi darker at 

 sides except at tips ; abdomen ochreous brown tinged with rufous 

 below. Fore wing red-brown, largely suffused with purplish ; the 

 subbasal line double, the inner black, excurved below costa and 

 ending at submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, defined on 

 outer side by black from costa to below cell, slightly angled outwards 

 on subcostal nervure and inwards in submedian fold, then oblique 

 to above inner margin where it is slightly angled ; claviform small, 

 obscurely defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform with slight 

 whitish annuli, the former somewhat elliptical, open above, the cell 

 before and between them deep brown ; an oblique shade from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, very 

 minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the subterrainal line slight, greyish defined by 

 fuscous suff'usion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excui^ved 

 at middle and at inner margin ; a fine waved terminal line. Hind 

 wing brown, with an ochreous tinge toAvards base and inner margin : 

 cilia pale at tips ; the underside paler, the costal area tinged with 

 purplish and irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Bkitain, Leech Coll. ; Prancjii, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller 

 & Frey Colls. ; Austria ; Switzerland ; IST. Italy ; Denmark ; 

 Sweden ; Eussia, Livonia. Exjj. 38-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 103; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 60, pi. 143. f. 2. 



Reddish brown or deep brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale 

 ochreous or greenish, sometimes indistinct, the subdorsal line usually 

 edged above by dark wedge-shaped marks on somites 8-11 ; the 

 subspiracular line pale ochreous ; a pale bar on somite 11 ; head 

 brown with darker markings. 



Food-plants: Bum e.v, Primula, Stellaria, etc. 9-5. 



705. Agrotis descripta. 



Noct'ua descripta, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 51, pi. 4. f. 11 (1864). 

 Agrotis pachnobides, Stand. Stett. eiit. Zeit. 1888, p. 246; id. Kom. Mem. 

 vi. p. 406, pi. 6. f. 3 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. 



c? . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with red-brown ; palpi, 

 vertex of head, pectus, and legs purplish red ; abdomen grey 



