452 noctuid.t:. 



reniform purplish fuscous, small, defiucd by black and their centres 

 by blackish, the former round, the cell before and between them 

 black, continued as streaks above and below vein 5 to termen ; an 

 oblique waved shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to a double series of 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; a terminal series of prominent black points and a 

 fuscous mark above tornus ; cilia intersected with black. Hind 

 wing yellowish semihyaline white ; the veins, costal and terminal 

 areas tinged with brown ; cilia pale ochreous ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and post 

 medial scries of striae on the veins of costal half. 



Huh. C. Colony, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ ; Punjab, 

 Simla (Harford), 1 cJ , 3 $ type, Dalhousie {Harford), 2 § , 

 Dharmsala {Hockinq), 4 c? , 4 $ , Kangra Valley, 4500' {Dudgeon), 

 1 § ; SiND. Expl 32-36 millim. 



775. Agrotis putris. 



Noctua putris, Linn. Faun. Siiec. p. 315 (174()); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 138. 

 ff. 4, 5 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent.,H;nist. ii. p 172 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. IfiS, 

 pi. cxi. f. 3 ; Hampsii. Moths Ind. ii. p. 186 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. 



Noctua subcorticalis, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 308 (1767). 



Noctua lignosa, Hiibn. Bur. Schinett., Noct. f. 245 (1827). 



Axylia triseriafa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 409. 



Head and tegulte ochreous, the latter Avith slight rufous medial 

 line and rufous tips ; palpi rufous; thorax rufous mixed with black; 

 abdomen brownish ochreous with dark lateral line. Fore wing 

 ochreous, the costal area and cell suffused with dark red-brown ; 

 two fine pale streaks in basal part of cell ; the subbasal line 

 represented by two slight striae from costa ; a slight rufous streak 

 above base of vein 1 bent upwards towards extremity ; the ante- 

 medial line double, the inner line pale rufous, very highly dentate 

 and angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, with fuscous centres and ochreous 

 aunuli defined by brown, the former round, the latter with a grey 

 S-shaped mark on it ; an oblique pale rufous shade from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, 

 dentate, and produced to a double series of black points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; sou'e 

 pale points on costa towards apex ; rufous streaks above and below 

 vein 5 from or from just beyond reniform to close to termen ; a 

 rufous mark above torn as and slight black dash on extremity of 

 vein 2; a terminal series of black points; cilia intersected with 

 brown, most prominently below apex and above tornus. Hind wing 

 ochreous, the veins brownish, the terminal area tinged with brown ; 

 a terminal series of dark striae ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial 

 line. 



The form triseriata from Japan and N. India is rather darker. 

 //rt6. Ei'viTA IN, Leech Coll. ; France; Gkrmany, Zeller & Prey 



