450 NOCTtllDiE, 



Ab. 1. grisescens. Fore wing dull grey. 



Hab. Dalmatia ; Asia Minok, Pontiis, 2 2 ■> Tauras ; Persia, 

 Mesopotamia ; W. Tukeestan. Ex2^. 38 millim. 



770. Agrotis su"bporphyra. (Plate LXXI. fig. 27.) 



Myihimna suhporphyrea, Wlk. xv. 1658 (1858) ; Smith, Cat.- Noct, N. Am. 

 p. 76. 



5 . Head and tegulfe rufous ; thorax rufous mixed with grej- ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous. Pore wing purplish rufous 

 slightly irrorated with grey ; the subbasal line obsolete ; the ante- 

 medial line indistinct, fuscous, slightly angled outwards below costa 

 and excurved below the cell ; the stigmata completely absent ; the 

 postmedial line indistinct, fuscous, slightly bent outwai'ds below 

 costa, excurved between veins 5 and 3, then oblique; a subterminal 

 greyish line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at median 

 nervules. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown, the underside 

 with the costal area suffused with rufous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Georgia {2 Ahhot), 2 ? type. Exp. 46 millim. 



*771. Agrotis tepperi. 



Agrotis tepperi, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 452 (1887) ; id. Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 77. 



White, sparsely irrorated with black ; tegulae tipped with black. 

 Fore wing with the lines single, fuscous ; the autemedial line 

 oblique, slightly excurved ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, 

 ill-defined, the former small, round, the latter moderate, defined by 

 black below and on outer side ; postmedial line sinuous, distinctly 

 angled beyond the cell; subterminal line broad, diffused, remote 

 from termen but nearl}? parallel to it ; a distinct terminal series of 

 dark spots. Hind wing whitish, tinged with fuscous towards 

 termen ; the underside white with dark irroration. 



Hab. U.S.A., Montana. Exp. 34 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



772. Agrotis annularis. (Plate LXXI. fig. 28.) 



Axylia annularis, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 265 (1891). 

 Agrotis transjecta, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 220 (1898). 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous, and the latter more 

 or less strongly with black ; pal]n black at sides except at tips ; 

 abdomen brownish ochreous, with blackish lateral stripes. Pore 

 wing ochreous slightly suffused with rufous ; the veins and inter- 

 spaces rather obscurely streaked with brown ; a prominent diffused 

 black streak in base of submedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 represented by a striga from costa and an indistinct line angled 

 inwards on vein 1 and very strongly outwards above inner margin; 

 orbicular and reniform small with pale annuli, the former round, 

 the cell before and between them black, and with black streaks 



