414 KOCTUID^. 



purplish. Fore wing purplish, more or less completely suifused with 

 greyish ochreous, olive, or rufous ; the subbasal line indistinct, angled 

 outwards below costa and ending in a black point in submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, angled outwards on subcostal 

 nervure and above inner margin ; the claviform usually represented 

 by black points on outer edge of antemedial line and at its extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, with ochreous annuli, the former round ; 

 the postmedial line double, oblique from costa to vein 6, then nearly 

 erect and slightly bent inwards to inner margin, the area beyond it 

 darker; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined bj' dark suffusion 

 on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia grey at tips ; the underside 

 paler, the costal area irrorated Avith brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. nigromaculata. Fore wing with deep black spots in cell 

 before the orbicular and between the stigmata. 



Hah. Amtjeland, Ussuri, 1 5 ; Japan, Yokohama (e/o?irt5, Whitely, 

 Pryer), 2 (5^ , 4 $ type, Tokio (Maries), 1 c? , 1 $ , Hakodate, 1 J , 

 Myanoshita (Yerbury), 1 J , Hakone (Eastlal-e), IS; W. China, 

 Chang-yang {Pratt), 2 S , 2 $ , Kwei-chow, 1 $ . Exp. 40-50 

 millim. 



*709. Agrotis Ijolteri. (Plate LXX. fig. 20.) 



Noct'ua bolteri, Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. See. vi. p. 104 (1898). 



5 . Red tinged with violet, the markings rusty brown and black ; 

 (head and thorax rubbed). Fore wing with the subbasal line double, 

 black, defined by brown scales, erect from costa to vein 1, then oblique 

 to inner margin, the area beyond it shaded with brown on inner half, 

 and with an erect black mark in cell defined on inner side by yellow 

 scales ; antemedial line double, the inner brown, the outer black 

 with yellow between them, nearly erect from costa to vein 1, strongly 

 excurved above inner margin ; claviform large, broad with brown 

 centre and yellow annulus defined by black ; orbicular large, elliptical, 

 incomplete above, with yellow annulus defined by black; reniform 

 very large, broad, the centre brown with a white lunule, a yellow 

 annulus defined by black ; a brown medial shade ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with yellow, lunulate, bent outwards below costa, 

 nearly straight to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line yellow, 

 defined on inner side by a strong dark shade, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate on veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of black 

 lunules defined by yellow on outer side. Hind wing smoky grey ; 

 cilia nearly white ; the underside pale, a discoidal spot and incom- 

 plete postmedial line, the terminal area irrorated with carmine. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico, Las Vegas {Bolter). Exj). 33 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type 

 in TJ.S, Nat, Mus. 



