AGEOTIS. 439 



excurved at middle, interrupted at the veins ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown, especially 

 towards terraen ; cilia ochreous white ; underside ochreous, the 

 veins striated with brown, the costal area irrorated with brown, a 

 dark discoidal point and postmedial line on costal area only. 



Hah. W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Tuekestan, Issyk-kul, Tarbagatai 

 Mts. ; E. Turkestan, Thian-Shan Mts., Ivorla ; Mongolia, Illiassatai 

 Mts., Urga ; Tibet, Kuku-noor ; E. Siberia, Kentei, 1 $ , Eccp. 38 

 millim. 



754. Agrotis agalma. (Plate LXXT. fig. 17.) 



Agrotis agalma, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 289, pi. 8. f. 7 (1900) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 139. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey ; palpi at tips and 

 vertex of head grey-Avhite ; tcgulce at base greenish white ; abdomen 

 browjiish grey, darker below. Eore wing blue-grey ; the cell and 

 area beyond and below it from subbasal to postmedial line brown, 

 leaving the median nervure and uervules grey defined by red ; the 

 subbasal line prominent, waved, from costa to submedian fold; the 

 antemedial line double, filled in with grey, the outer line prominent, 

 acutely angled outwards below costa, then with an oblique inward 

 curve to vein 1, where it is obtusely angled ; stigmata with rufous 

 centres and grey annuli defined by black, claviform large, orbicular 

 oblique, ellii^tical, open above, reniform more or less angled inwards 

 on median nervure ; the postmedial line minutely waved, defined 

 by grey on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 the postmedial area tinged with pale rufous ; the subterminal line 

 pale, with a prominent series of more or less developed dentate 

 black marks before it, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a fine waved terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown 

 with a grey tinge ; cilia grey, with a brown line at base ; the 

 underside paler, with dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, Amdo, Sinin Mts., 1 cJ , 1 § . Exp. 40 

 millim. 



755. Agrotis substrigata. (riate LXXI. fig. 18.) 

 Noctua substrigata, Smith, Ent. News Pbilad. vi. p. 332, pi. xv. f. 4 (1895). 



S . Head and tegulge rufous ; palpi pale at tips, neck with black 

 patch above, tegulae white at tips ; thorax brown mixed with black ; 

 abdomen ochreous brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdo- 

 men blackish mixed with grey. Eore wing fuscous black ; a 

 whitish and black subbasal line from costa to median nervure and a 

 black patch below cell ; an antemedial blackish line defined on each 

 side by whitish, angled outwards below costa, then incurved, obsolete 

 towards inner margin ; claviform large, its extremity and lower 

 edge defined by black, an ochreous-white fascia from antemedial to 

 postmedial line on vein 1, beyond the claviform expanding to vein 2 



