AGEOTI?. 



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the former oblique, (J-shaped, open above, the latter often open 

 above or below, and with black spot on its outer edge ; the post- 

 medial line highly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

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

 below costa and excurved at middle, defined by fuscous suffusion on 

 inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellow- 

 brown, with the cilia ochreous ; the underside grey irrorated with 

 brown, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Britain ; Peance ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 FreyColl. ; Italy; Noravay, Bondmore, 1 2; Russia, Livonia, 1 $; 

 Syria, type t 5 aSc^ito in Coll. Joanis ; Amijr ; Japan. £^.r^. 46-50 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 96; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. o6, pi. 141. f. 3. 



Purplish broAvn or greenish grey ; a double dorsal series of white 

 dots and oblique darker marks ; spiracular line dark brown ; somite 

 12 with transverse dark mark dilated at extremities, pale-edged 

 posteriorly ; head pale brown. Pood-plants : Salicv, liume.v, etc. 



*788. Agrotis sibirica. 



Agrotis sibirica, Boisd. Icones, pi. 80. f. 6 (1832) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 152. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white mixed with 

 brown. Pore wing grey-brown ; the subbasal line represented by 

 double stria3 from costa and cell ; the antemedial line double, oblique, 

 waved, with more prominent spots at costa ; claviform defined by 

 black above and at extremity ; orbicular and i^eniform large, defined 

 by black, the former round, incomplete above and below, the latter 

 with slight pale annulus ; postmedial line double, strongly dentate, 

 and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale points on costa beyond 

 it; subterminal line indistinct, pale, irregularly dentate, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side 

 by a slight series of dentate dark marks ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the cilia whitish with brown line at base ; the underside 

 pale suffused with brown, the costal area irrorated with brown, a 

 dark discoidal point and traces" of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Siberia, type t d iu Coll. Oberthur ; E. Sibera, ITssuri ; 

 CoREA, Eciy. 48 millim. 



789. Agrotis jalapa, n. sp. (Plate LXXII. fig. 7.) 

 Ufeics satyricus, Driice, Biol. Oentr.-Amer,, Het. i. p. 266 (uec Grote). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black ; legs blackish, 

 the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen silky brown. Pore wing 

 red-brown irrorated with black ; the veins with blackish streaks ; 

 the submedian nervure with blackish streak stronger towards base ; 

 the subbasal line represented by double stria3 on costa ; the ante- 

 medial line double, waved, strongly angled inwards on median 



