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718. Agrotis rubi. 



Noct'ua rubi. View. Tab. Verz. p. 57, pL 3. f. 5 (1790) ; Sfcaud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 140. 

 Noctua radica, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 151. f. 4 (1796). 

 Noctua bella, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 605 (1792) ; Godt. Lep. Fr. ii. 



p. 199, pi. 63. f. 2; Boisd. Icones, pi. 83. f. 5; Hen-.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 81. 

 Noctua quadratum, Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 477 (1827). 

 Caradrina posticata, Wlk. xv. 1695 (1858). 

 Noctua florida, Schmidt, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 46; Herr.-Schaff. Neue 



Schmett. f. 74; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. 



Head and tliorax red-brown ; palpi dark red-brown, pale at tips ; 

 tibige and tarsi blackisb with pale rings. Fore wing red-brown with 

 a purplish tinge ; a donble sligbtly waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line ; claviform 

 grejdsh, with a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform 

 with greyish annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell 

 between them dark brown ; a diffused medial shade angled outwards 

 to lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, 

 and produced to slight points on the veins, slightly bent outwards 

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

 line greyish, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small dark lunules. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia ochreous or pinkish; 

 the underside ochreous irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot 

 and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. florida. Deeper and brighter rufous, the markings of 

 fore wing more prominent. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; Fbance; Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls. ; Attstria, Leech Coll., type S posticata, 

 hab. ign. ; Scandinavia ; IIussia, Livonia, Urals ; Siberia ; W. Ttjr- 

 KEsiAN, Ferghana ; Kamschatka. Exp. 30-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 102 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 89, pi. 147. f. 2. 



Greyish-oehreous, grey, or brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale 

 with dark edges ; subspiracular line prominently pale ; head brown 

 with dark markings. Food-plants : grasses, Bumex, Taraxacum, 

 ■ etc. 6-7, 9-3. 



719. Agrotis xanthographa. 



Noctua xanthographa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 83 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. lus. ii" 

 p. 170; Hii'bn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 138; Dup. Lep. Fr. iii p. 107- 

 pi. 80. f. 2; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 153; Staud. Cat. Lep- 

 pal. p. 140. 



Noctua tetragona, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 205 (1809). 



Nocttia budensh, Frr. Beitr. Schmett. pi. 232. f. 1 (1839). 



Agrotis cohmsa, Herr.-SchafF. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 209, Noct. ff. 95-7 

 (1845). 



Agrotis elutior, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 168 ; id. Eom. Mem. v. 

 p. 129, pi. 6. f. 3. 



Agrotis pcdcsstinensis, Kalchb. Iris, x. p. 168 (1897). 



' Head, thorax, and fore wing red-brown, sometimes suffused with 

 fuscous, or varying to ochreous or grey irrorated with fuscous ; palpi 



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