AGROTIS. 453 



Colls. ; AusTKiA, Zeller Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland; 

 N. Spain; Italy; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; 

 W. Siberia, Altai; Amurland, Ussuri ; Corea ; Japan, Yokohama 

 (Prijer), 1 $ , Hakodate (Andreives), 2 $ , Tokio (Maries), 1 $ ; 

 China, Poo-chan (Leech), 1 J ; Punjab, Dharmsala (Hocking), 3 J , 

 5 $ , type triseriata ; Sikkim (Lidderdale, Dudgeon), 2 9 . Exp. 

 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 98; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ir. p. 3, pi. 137. f. 1. 



Pale brown with darker irroration ; dorsal line pale, interrupted ; 

 a subdorsal series of dark greenish-fuscous oblique marks, more 

 prominent on somites 4, 5, 9, 10, edged below bj^ pale ochreous ; 

 an ochreous bar on somite 11 ; spiracular line pale tinged with 

 pinkish or yellowish ; head brown with darker markings. Pood- 

 plants : Stellaria, Atriplex, Plantago, etc. 7-8. 



776. Agrotis coniorta, n. sp. (Plate LXXI. fig. 31.) 



Head and thorax ochreous or whitish largely mixed with black, 

 sometimes tinged with reddish ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 greyish ochreous suffused with fuscous. Pore wing greyish ochreous, 

 sometimes tinged with purplish red, and irrorated with luscous ; 

 the subbasal line represented by double black striie from costa and 

 cell ; a diffused black fascia below base of cell ; a double waved 

 antemedial line angled outwards below costa and above inner 

 margin; claviform represented by a slight black streak; orbicular 

 and reniform with fuscous centres and pale annuli defined by black, 

 the former a small ocellus, a black fascia in cell before and between 

 the stigmata; an oblique waved shade from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points 

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

 incurved ; the subterminal line defined by a blackish patch with 

 pale points on it on costa, before it and the area beyond it blackish, 

 bent outwards to apex and excurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal 

 area tinged with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal 

 point and somewhat dentate postmedial line. 



?lah. Br. .E. Africa, Masaihmd, El Quaso, 1 2 ? I^^ Burgon 

 (Bction), 6 c? , 3 5 type, Lari 1 $ . Exp. 20 millim. 



*777. Agrotis effracta. (Plate LXXI. fig. 32.) 



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



c? . Head and thorax brown with a purplish-grey gloss ; tegulse 

 with black medial band ; abdomen ochreous brown. Pore wing 

 dull brown sufi'used with purplish fuscous, leaving the basal costal 

 area, the inner medial area, and a difi^used oblique band from apex 

 to inner margin ochreous brown ; traces of a waved antemedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, the former round, 

 a black fascia between them continued in discal fold to termen ; a 



