418 NOCTUIDiE. 



716. Agrotis mandarinella. (Plate LXX. fig. 25.) 



Grwphipliora mandarhia, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 42 (iiec p. 36). 



Head and thorax bright rufous slightly mixed with grey ; palpi 

 rufous and blackish, pale at tips ; tibise and tarsi blackish, ringed 

 with white; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 reddish ochreous. Fore Aving bright rufous suffused with purplish ; 

 a double black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, excurved 

 below costa and with a point beyond it in cell; a double, waved, 

 antemedial line angled outwards below costa and more strongly 

 above inner margin ; claviform small, slightly defined by schreous 

 and brown ; orbicular and reniform with rufous centres and 

 ochreous annuli defined by rufous, the former small, round ; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, 

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

 subterminal line pale, defined on inner side towards costa by a dark 

 shade with pale points on it, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurv^ed at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 pale fuscous brown ; the cilia pale purplish red ; the underside pale 

 purplish red, the costal area irrorated with black, a small discoidal 

 lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. W. China, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 c? type, Ni-tou, 1 5 ; Tibet, 

 Yatung (Ilohson), 1 (^ . E.rp. ^6 millim. 



717. Agrotis jucunda. (Plate LXX. fig. 26.) 



GrapMphoi-ajucunda, Wlk. x. o99 (1856); Smith. Cut. Noct. N.Am. p. 72. 

 Agrotis perconflua, Grote, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi. p. 304 (1876). 

 Agrotis eriensis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Sm'v. iv. p. 172 (1878). 



Head ochreous white tinged with rufous ; palpi blackish except 

 at extremities ; thorax rufous ; pectus and legs purplish rufous, the 

 tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen brownish ochreous. 

 Fore wing greyish ochreous, more or less completely suffused with 

 purplish red ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; a black point in cell ; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial 

 line excurved above inner margin ; claviform represented by a black 

 point ; orbicular and reniform with rufous centres, greyish annuli, 

 and black outlines, the former rounded, usually complete, the latter 

 somewhat constricted at middle, the cell before them and between 

 their lower portions usually black ; an indistinct double dentate 

 postmedial line, usually forming grey and black points at the veins, 

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

 greyish subterminal line excurved at vein 7 and middle, and usually 

 with series of small dentate black marks or points on its inner edge; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hiud wing ochreous white, 

 suffused with brown especially towards termen ; the underside with 

 discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. ijerconjiua. Fore wing without the black in the cell. 



Hah. Canada, Auticosti I., 3 c? , Orilla {Btish), 1 $ typo ; U.S.A., 

 Northern and Eastern States, Maine, Orono, 1 S , New York, 

 Schenectady (Lintner), 1 § tyiie p^rconjlua, Evans Centre (Grote), 

 1 (5,1 $ , type eriensis. Exp. 38-40 millim. 



