416 NOCTTJID^. 



white, edged with dark browu ; subdorsal line ochreous white, 

 edged above by a series of blackish dashes or wedges : spiracular 

 line dark brown ; head pale brown with darker markings. Food- 

 plants : Eiibus, Eumex, Planiago, etc. 8-5. 



712. Agrotis rosaria. (Plate LXX. fig. 22.) 



Agrotis rosaria, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. it. p. 172 (1878) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 73. 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous, some of the scales tipped 

 with grey; sides of palpi and frons blackish, the former pale at tips; 

 tarsi with pale rings : abdomen brownish grey, the hair at sides rufous, 

 the anal tuft yellow. Fore wing ochreous suffused with purplish 

 rufous ; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; a double obliquely waved antemedial line excurved above 

 inner margin ; claviform represented by a dark point at its extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform ochreous, with greyish annuli and black 

 outline, the former round ; the cell between the stigmata dark 

 brown difiused to costa ; a medial shade from cell to inner margin ; 

 the postmedial line double, very even and only minutely dentate, 

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

 some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line pale, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine 

 dark terminal line. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with 

 fuscous, especially towards costa and termen ; the cilia ochreous ; 

 the type with the terminal area and cilia tinged with purplish red ; 

 the underside with dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia; U.S.A., California, 1 S type, San 

 Francisco (Stretch), 3 d ■ Exp. 34 millim. 



*713. Agrotis obimcula. (Plate LXXV, fig. 1.) 



Agrotis ohuncula, Piing. ined. 



S. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey; palpi black- 

 brown at sides except at extremity ; abdomen fuscous grey, the 

 anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing pale rufous tinged with grey and 

 with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line represented by a dark 

 striga from costa, Avith a grey and black point beyond it in cell ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved ; claviform small, grey, 

 slightly defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform 

 whitish defined by black, their centres irrorated with brown, the 

 former round, some black suffusion in lower part of cell before and 

 between them ; medial shade very indistinct, oblique, from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, defined by 

 grey on outer side, minutely dentate and produced to points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line pale, defined by brownish suffusion on inner side, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of dark points ; a pale line at base of cilia ; the apex 



