AGEOTIS. 421 



Ab. 1. The type is a female with the cell black before and 

 between the stigmata. 



Hah. Canada (Norman)., 1 ,5 , Renfrew Co., 1 $ , New Brunswick, 

 Woodstock, 1 2 ; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States, 2 d' , 2 5 , 

 type, Wisconsin, 1 (5 . Exp. 32-38 millim. 



721. Agrotis phyllophora. (Plate LXX. fig. 28.) 



Agrotis •phyllophora, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 61 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 72. 



Head and thorax chestnut, on thorax mixed with purplish grey ; 

 pdpi pale at tips ; tarsi dark brown, with pale rings ; abdomen 

 dull brown, with the hair at sides rufous. Fore wing purplish grey 

 largely suffused with chestnut ; a double sinuous subbasal line from 

 costa to vein 1 ; a double obliquely waved antemedial line ; orbicular 

 and reniform with pale annuli and rufous centres, the former round, 

 complete, the latter with some fuscous in its lower extremity ; the 

 waved rufous medial shade passing between them ; the postmedial 

 line double, minutely dentate, and with a series of black and grey 

 points on its outer edge, bent outwards below costa, excurved to veiu 4, 

 then incurved ; the subterminal line excurved at vein 7 and middle, 

 and defined by a chestnut shade on its inner edge ; a terminal 

 punctiform line. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 the cilia reddish ; the underside with discoidal point and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, 1 § ; U.S.A., Northern, Middle, and Eastern States. 

 1 d , 1 $ , type, New York, Albany {Bailey), 1 $ . Exp. 40- 

 46 millim. 



722. Agrotis nivisparsa. 



Chersotis nimsparsa, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. p. 54, pi. 127. f. 11 (1889) ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 187. 



Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with grey and black ; tarsi 

 black, with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown with an ochreous 

 tinge, the ventral surface grey. Fore wing grey or grey-brown 

 irrorated with black; a double, waved, subbasal black line from 

 costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line; ciavi- 

 form moderate, blackish ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by 

 black, their centres irrorated with fuscous, the former round, the 

 area before and between them and beyond the reniform suffused 

 with black ; an indistinct waved line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards 

 below cosfca, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards 

 on vein 1 ; the subterminal line whitish, defined by obscure dentate 

 fuscous marks on inner side and some fuscous suffusion on outer^ 

 minutely waved or punctiform, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia with a pale line at base ; the 



