AGROTIS. 



427 



blackish ; abdomen greyish or ocbreous, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface rufous. Fore wing pale rufous suffused with yellow except 

 the terminal area from apex to middle of inner margin, or purplish 

 with some olive suffusion from middle of costa to subterminal line 

 and extending to lower angle of cell ; an indistinct waved, double, 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, 

 antemedial line ; claviform represented by a fuscous point at its 

 extremity; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by brown, 

 the former round ; an indistinct waved medial line angled outwards 

 to lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and 

 produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal 

 line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia 

 purplish red ; the underside pale reddish, the costal area deeper 

 red, and the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a 

 slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



This may be a variety of A. dahli. 



Hah. Japan, Hakodate (Leech, Andrewes), 1 c? , 1 5 , Oiwake 

 (Fryer), 1 $ , Kiushiu, 1 § , Yokohama (Pryer), 3 J , 3 $ ; W. China, 

 Chou-pin-sa, 1 c?, Washan, 1 $ ; Kashmir, Narkundah (McAriliur), 

 1 2; Punjab, Sultanpur (G. Young), 2 S, D al housi e (i/ar/orcZ), 

 1 $, Dharmsjila (Hocking), 6, 5 $ ; Sikhim (Lidderdale, 

 Dudgeon), 2 J , 2 $ , type. Ea'2). 32-40 millim. 



732. Agrotis basistriga. (Plate LXXI. fig. 4.) 



Graphiphora basistriga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1807, p. 54; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 184. 



Head and thorax purplish grey suffused with deep red-brown or 

 entirely red-brown; palpi deep red-brown, pale at tips; tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish irrorated with white; abdomen pale red-brown, the 

 anal tuft and ventral surface purplish red. Fore wing deep rufous 

 and olive-fuscous, more or less completely suffused with purple- 

 grey, some dark suffusion above basal part of vein 1 and on medial 

 part of inner margin ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to 

 vein 1, with a dark point in the cell beyond it; a double, waved, 

 antemedial line strongl}^ angled outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform small, defined by brown : orbicular and reniform defined 

 by brown, and with their centres defined by brown ; an indistinct 

 waved medial line angled outwards on median nervure ; a double 

 postmedial line, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; a double subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle, and with some olive-brown suffusion before 

 it at costa ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; a terminal series 

 of dark points. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous or fuscous brown ; cilia pale purplish red ; 

 the underside paler, the costal area suffused with purplish red ; a 

 dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



