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produced and acute, and the termen slightly angled at vein 3. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; the cilia pale with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal spot 

 and sinuous postmedial line. 

 $ . Browner and less red. 



Hah. E. TuEKESTAN, mountains north of Khola, type f (5 ? in 

 Coll. Piingeler. Exji. 40 millim. 



714. Agrotis calgary. (Plate LXX. fig. 23.) 



Noctua calgary, Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 101 (1898). 



Head and thorax red-brown, some of the hairs tipped with grey ; 

 palpi blackish, pale at tips ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing with 

 the apex rectangular, the termen very slightly angled at vein 3 ; 

 red-brown with a greyish tinge ; the lines double ; the subbasal 

 line minutely waved ; the antemedial line minutely waved, strongly 

 angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented by a 

 dark point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with grey- 

 irrorated centres defined by black, the former rounded ; a distinct 

 medial shade, the cell between the stigmata sometimes dark or black ; 

 the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, 

 slightly angled inwards in discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; post- 

 medial area darker, with some pale points on costa ; the subterminal 

 line pale, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing pale reddish ochreous tinged 

 with fuscous ; a dark postmedial line ; a terminal line ; cilia purplish 

 red ; the underside with dark discoidal spot. 



Hob. Canada, Calgary (Dod), 3 c? , 1 $ . Exp. 38 millim. 



*715. Agrotis plebeia. (Plate LXX. fig. 24.) 

 Noctua lolebeia. Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 105 



Dirty clay-yellow irrorated with blackish ; tegulae paler at tips ; 

 thorax rather dark. Fore wing with the markings traceable, 

 incomplete ; subbasal line double, black, from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line double, black, interrupted, slightly excurved ; claviform 

 brown defined by black and brown ; orbicular and reniform with 

 black centres and pale annuli defined by brown, the former elliptical, 

 the latter large ; a diffused medial shade ; postmedial line blackish, 

 double, diffused, very even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 black spots with some yellowish scales on outer side, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 brown lunules, and a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 fuscous, paler towards base ; cilia pale ; the underside with dark 

 irroration, a large discoidal spot and broad postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Livingston, Vancouver ; U.S.A., 

 Washington, Oregon, California. Exp. 35-40 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. 



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