458 



NOCXUIDiE. 



form sliglitly defined ; the orbicular and reniform with fuscous 

 centres and whitish anuuli defined by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical ; hind wing tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. EussiA, ? Urals ; Armenia, Caucasus ; N, Persia, Schakuh 

 W. Siberia, Altai; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 d" , 1 § 

 Tarbagatai Mts., Ala Tau, Iss)'k-kul, Ferghana ; E. Turkestan 

 Hi; Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., Changhai Mts.; Tibet, Kuku-noor, 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



786. Agrotis unimacula. (Plate LXXII. fig. 6.) 



Agrotis unimacula, Morr. Proc. Eost. Soo. N. H. xvii. p. 166 (1874). 

 Agrotis harusjnca. Gi-ote, Bull. Butf. Soc. Nut. Sci. ii. p. 212 (1875) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74. 

 Agrotis augitr, y&v. grandis, Speyer, Stctt. ent. Zeit. xxxvi. p. 122 (1875). 



Head and thorax dull reddish brown, the scales with grey tips ; 

 palpi and legs mixed with fuscous ; abdomen grey, thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown, irrorated with grey and 

 fuscous ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; an oblique waved antemedial line ; claviform sometimes with 

 its extremity defined by black scales ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former oblique, U-shaped, open above, almost 

 obsolete, the latter large, usually more or less open above and 

 below and with black spot on its outer edge ; the postmedial line 

 highly dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; a pale subterminal line angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle, more or less strongly defined by 

 fuscous suftusion on its inner edge ; a terminal series of dark points. 

 Hind wing yellowish brown ; the cilia ochreous ; the underside 

 grey irrorated with brown, with dark discoidal spot and diffused 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Norman, 1 c? , Renfrew Co., 4 d' , 2 $ ; Br. Columbia 

 (Eenn), 1 5 ; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States, New York, 4 d" , 

 4 2 , type hanispica, Montana, Colorado, Utah. Ex2}. 46-54 millim. 



787. Agrotis augur. 



JSfocitia augur, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 223(1781); Hilbn. Eur. Schmett.,!N'oct. 



f. 148; Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 73. f. 6; Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 136. 

 Noctua omega, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 131. f. 2 (1788). 

 Noctua assimulans, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 209 (1790). 

 INoctua liifpo-phaes, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 782 (1827). 

 Agrotis abdita, J. Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 81 ; Mab. Nov. Lep. 



p. 123, pi. 18. f. 1. 



Head and thorax reddish brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 

 palpi and legs irrorated with black ; abdomen grey-brown, tinged 

 with ochreous and irrorated with grey. Fore Aving yellowish 

 brown with a slight reddish or greyish tinge, and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an 

 oblique waved antemedial line ; claviform outlined with black or 

 more or less obsolete; orbicular and reniform outlined with black, 



