AGROTIS. 415 



710. Agrotis neurogramma. (Plato LXX. fig. 21.) 



Agrotis neurogramma, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 149 (1899). 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with black, some white 

 scales on vertex of head and in dorsal crests, the tegular edged with 

 white ; palpi yellowish a)id black ; legs blackish, the tarsi with 

 ochreous rings, the fore legs rufous above ; abdomen ochreous. 

 Fore wing rufous, thickly irrorated and in places suffused with 

 black, the veins streaked with ochreous ; a double black subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold tilled in with greyish, with an 

 oblique striga beyond it across cell ; a double antemedial line filled 

 in with rufous, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; 

 claviform well-developed, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 blackish, with ochreous annuli defined by black, the former rather 

 oblique and elliptical ; a waved oblique line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin ; a double minutely waved postmedial line, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the 

 terminal area sufiiised with black, with ochreous subterminal line 

 angled outwards at vein 7, then curved ; cilia ochreous and fuscous. 

 Hind wing yellowish, the veins and termen tinged with fuscous, a 

 dark terminal line except towards tornus ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. Hawaii, Tvilauea, 1 cT type. Exp. 48 millim. 



711. Agrotis sexstrigata. 



Noctua sexstrigata, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 228 (1809). 



Nocttia umbrosa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. fF. 456,457(1827); Godt. 

 Lep. Fr. v. p. 201, pi. 63. f. 3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi purplish red, pale at tips ; 

 tegulae with slight dark medial line ; tarsi with pale idngs ; abdomen 

 ochreous, the anal tuft and ventral surface purplish red. Fore wino- 

 pale rufous with darker irroration ; the veins with dark streaks ; a 

 fine dark subbasal line from costa to median nervure ; a dark ante- 

 medial line oblique from costa to submedian fold, then somewhat 

 waved ; the claviform represented by a dark point at its extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former round, a diff'used 

 medial shade passing between them, angled outwards at lower angle 

 of cell ; the postmedial line produced to slight points at the veins, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; the 

 subterminal line defined by rufous suff'usion on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine dark terminal 

 line. Hind wing ochreous, the terminal area sufi'used with fuscous 

 brown, v/holly suffused in female ; cilia pale yellow, often tinged 

 with pink ; the underside with the costal area suffused with purplish 

 red, a sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand 

 Coll. ; Holland, Frey Coll. ; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Italy ; 

 Scandinavia. Exp. 38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 102 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 92, pi. 147. f. 3. 



Pale ochreous or brownish, with dark striae ; dorsal line ochreous 



