AGROTIS. 



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palpi at sides except extremity, antenuce, and base of tegulae 

 black ; tibiae and tarsi mixed with black, with pale bands ; abdomen 

 Avhitish, suffused with reddish brown especially towards extremity. 

 Pore wing purplish brown irrorated with grey ; a sinuous black 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian. fold ; a pale subbasal line 

 defined by black on outer side, angled outwards below costa, inwards 

 on vein 1 and excurved above inner margin ; claviform large, 

 defined by whitish, its base black or rarely entirely filled in by black ; 

 the orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by a few 

 black scales, the former round, the latter with its lower edges 

 produced inwards on median nervure and often confluent with the 

 orbicular ; a quadrate black patch in cell between the upper parts 



Fig. 78. — Agrotis rectangula, S • \- 



of stigmata; two black spots on medial part of costa; the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, black, defined by grey on outer side, 

 strongly bent ontwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal 

 line defined by pale brownish on outer side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, then dentate ; some dark points on termen. Hind wing 

 pale suffused with brown, especially on the veins and terminal half ; 

 the underside with discoidal spot and curved posbmedial line on 

 costal half of wing. 



The antennse of male have some rough black scales at base of 

 shaft. 



Ab. 1. anderreggi. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker purplish 

 fuscous, — Alps ; TJrals ; C. Asia ; Siberia ; Kamschatka. 



Ab. 2. acutangula. Fore wing browner, with the stigmata 

 prominent. — C. Asia. 



Hab. Switzerland, Frey Coll., 3 J , 2 $ ; Italy ; Austria ; 

 RiTMELiA ; Russia, Kasan, 2 c? , Urals ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai, 1 $ ; W. Turkestan, Ala Tau, Issyk-kul ; 

 E. Turkestan, Thian-Shan Mts. ; E. Siberia, Kamschatka. Exjy. 

 36 miUim. 



*765. Agrotis patefacta. (Plate LXXI. fig. 23.) 

 Noctua ;patefacta, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vi. p. 333, pi. xv. f. 2 (1895). 



J . Head and thorax dark purple-brown, some of the hairs 

 tip]3ed with grey ; palpi black at sides ; tegulse with the basal half 

 black; legs blackish with grey-brown hair; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the anal tuft with a rufous tinge. Fore wing purple-brown suffused 

 with black ; the subbasal line represented by black spots below 



