442 



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the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards 

 beloAv costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved 

 below vein 4 ; traces of a pale subterminal line angled outwards at 

 vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, 

 sutt'used with brown especially on veins and terminal area ; the 

 underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown ; a broAvn 

 discoidal spot. 



The female has large paired sublateral foveal depressions with a 

 few long spatulate scales in them on the penultimate abdominal 

 segment. 



Hah. Geeeitland, 1 5 ; Canada {Norman), 1 $ , Manitoba 

 (Bussell), I c?, Nova Scotia {Redman), 1 d' , 2 § ; U.8.A., Eastern 

 and Central States, Massachusetts, Beverly, 1 c? , 2 $ , New York, 

 Trenton Palls, 5 c? , 5 § , type ; Kamschatka. Exp. 38-48 millim. 



Larva. Saunders, Fruit-Insects, p. 108, ff. lOfi, 107. 



(Redescribed.) Head 3 millim., pale brown, reticulate, curved 

 vertical band broad, black, the one upward from the eye distinct, 

 brown. Body brown, thickly mottled on a cream-coloured ground ; 

 cervical shield a shade darker wdth dorsal and subdorsal whitish 

 lines ; dorsal line narrow, whitish, obscure ; subdorsal oblique 

 shades forming distinct oblique brown patches on joints 5 to 12, all 

 large, whitish-edged behind, the pair on joint 12 narrowly joined, 

 resting on the whitish subdorsal line ; lateral oblique shades upward 

 and forward from the spiracles, small, diffuse ; substigmatal band 

 obscure, a little more reddish than the ground-colour, deiined by its 

 whitish edges ; spiracles black-rimmed. A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



*759. Agrotis suecica. (Plate LXXI. fig. 20.) 



Jgrotis suecica, Auriv. Norcl. Fjar. p. ]21, f. 24 (1890); Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 136. 



Head and thorax reddish brown with a purple gloss and irrorated 

 with black ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing reddish brown irrorated 

 and suffused with fuscoiis and with a purplish gloss ; the subbasal 

 line represented by double black striae from costa ; the autemedial 

 line double, angled outwards below costa, in cell, in submedian fold 

 and more strongly above inner margin ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, slightly defined by black, the former rather 

 elliptical ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line obsolete. Hind wing 

 w^hitish, almost uniformly suffused with brown ; the cilia white with 

 a brown line at base ; the underside whitish, the costal area strongly 

 and the terminal area slightly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal 

 spot and postmedial line on costal area. 



The male has the claspers long and exserted ; the female has paired 

 sublateral, almost naked foveal depressions on penultimate segment 

 of abdomen. 



Hah. Sweden-, typef c? § in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 38 millim. 



