AGKOTTS. 



441 



and circumference defined by fuscous ; the postmedial line more 

 towards termen than usual, curved, dentate, rather indistinct ; the 

 subterminal line pale, defined by brownish on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points usually present ; cilia ochreous with fuscous line through 

 them. Hind wing dark brown, the interspaces of discal area whitish 

 and semihyaline ; cilia brown at base, whitish at tips ; the under- 

 side pale, the costal and terminal areas brownish irrorated with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and curved sinuous postmedial line. 

 Eah. Mexico, Jalapa (T;-?y7/Zo), 2 cT , 1 $; Guatemala {Rodri- 

 guez), 2 (5 , 1 $ type Godman-Salvin Coll. Ex_p. 56-58 millim. 



h'^. Palpi witli the 2iicl joint fringed with hair in front, 

 a^. Abdomen of female with pair of sublateral foveas 

 near extremity, 

 a*. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma more or 



less elongate, elliptical unicolor. 



b*. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma round suecica. 



758. Agrotis unicolor. 



Mcuncstra unicolor, Wlk. is. 233 (1856). 



Noctua clandestina, Harris, Inj. Ins. p. 448 (1862) ; Eiley, 1st Rep. Tns. 



Mo. p. 79, pi. 1. f. 13; Smith, Cat. Nocfc. K Am. p. 75 ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 136. 

 Mamestra nigriccps, Wlk. xsxii. 659 (1865). 



Head and tegulaj black-brown ; thorax grey-brown, the scales 

 tipped with grey ; legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 



Fig. 77. — Agrotis unicolor, § . 



grey-brown. Fore Aving grey-brown, irrorated with grey and 

 fuscous ; a fine black streak often present in basal half of submedian 

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

 the antemedial line double, acutely angled outwards below costa, in 

 cell, in submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on 

 subcostal and median nervures and -vein 1 ; claviform sometimes 

 indicated by a few black scales ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 black, the former small to large, elongate, the latter open above and 

 below, the stigmata often connected by a black streak in discal fold; 



