434 NOCTUIDiE. 



excurved to vein 4, then oblique and slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 1 ; the subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it 

 being greyer, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; the underside with 

 indistinct diffused postmedial band. 



Mab. Amurland, Ussuri, 1 § . Exjj. 36 milliin, 



745. Agrotis oblata. (Plate LXXI. fig. 12.) 



Agrotis ohkda, Mon-. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 116 (1875); Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 7;i 

 Agrotis hiUicma, Harv. Can. Ent. x. p. 55 (1878). 



$ . Head and thorax clothed with ochreous, bright rufous, and a 

 few whitish scales ; palpi with some white scales at sides, pale at 

 tips ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen fulvous. Fore wing clothed 

 with grey, fuscous, ochreous, and bright rufous scales, the basal 

 and postmedial areas greyest, the medial and terminal most rufous ; 

 a black streak below basal half of cell ; a double, waved, black 

 subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; a double antemedial line, its 

 outer part prominently black, excurved above inner margin; 

 orbicular and reniform with pale centres, rufous annuli, and very 

 prominent black outlines, the former large, oblique, elliptical, the 

 latter constricted at middle, the obscure waved medial shade passing 

 between them ; the postmedial line dentate, defined by grey on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, defined by dark suffusion on inner side and the 

 area beyond it rufous. Hind wing pale ochreous with dark discoidal 

 point, indistinct dentate postmedial line, and diffused subterminal 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, Anticosti I. ; U.S.A., New York, Lewis Co. (Hills), 

 1 J , type JiiUiana, Nevada, California, Sierra Nevada. Kvjy. 40 

 millim. 



746. Agrotis flavotincta. (Plate LXXI. fig. 13.) 



Foctua flavotincta, Smith, Ent. jS^'evvs, iii. p. 252 (1892) ; id. Tran.«. Ara. 

 Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 45, pi. 1. f. 2. 



Head and tegulge ochreous largely mixed with rufous ; palpi 

 black at sides except at tips ; sides of frons, vertex of head, and 

 neck with small black sjiots ; thorax ochreous slightly irrorated 

 with brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing pale purplish brown, the costal area pale to the post-, 

 medial line ; the subbasal line represented by black points below 

 costa and cell ; a black streak in base of submedian fold ; the ante- 

 medial line black, defined by ochreous on inner side, slightly ex- 

 curved in and below cell ; claviform rather elongate, almost filled 

 in with black ; orbicular and reniform brownish, with pale annuli 

 defined by black, the former oblique, elongate or elliptical, the 

 latter constricted at middle, the cell before and between them 

 black, a black streak from reniform to postmedial line, which is 



