460 NOCTUID^. 



nervure and vein 1, the inner line weak; orbicular and reniform 

 obscurely defined by black and with black streak between them in 

 lower part of cell ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some 

 blackish streaks in interspaces of terminal area ; the subterminal 

 line very indistinct, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia intersected with 

 black, and with pale line at base. Hind wing pale brown ; a fine 

 dark terminal line and line at base of cilia ; the underside whiter, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown ; a dark discoidal lunule and 

 curved postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoege), 1 cj , 1 $ type, (jodman-Salvin 

 Coll. Kvp. 50-54 millim. 



790. Agrotis havilae. (Plate LXXII. fig. 8.) 



Agrotis clandestina, var. havilce, Grote, Bull. Geol. Sui-v. vi. p. 157 (1880) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 76. 



Head and tegulae reddish brown, the latter tipped with grey ; 

 thorax and abdomen grey-brown mixed with grey. Fore wing 

 grey-browu irrorated with grey and fuscous ; a more or less deve- 

 loped black streak below base of cell ; the double subbasal line only 

 indicated at costa ; the double antemedial line more or less strongly 

 dentate, the dentitions increasing in length towards inner margin ; 

 claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform more or less completely 

 defined by black and either small or well-developed, the former 

 longitudinally elliptical and sometimes connected with the reniform; 

 the postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by grey on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa, then excurved to vein 4, and angled 

 inwards in discal and submedian folds ; the subterminal line indis- 

 tinct, grey, angled outwards on veins 6, 4, and 3 and crossed by 

 dark streaks on the veins ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind 

 wing brown ; the cilia white with brown line at base : the underside 

 greyer, with dark irroration on costal area and dark discoidal point. 



Ifah. U.S.A., Colorado (Cocherell), 3 ?, Nevada, 1 S type, 

 S. California, 1 d , 3 $ . K^^?. 38-48 millim. 



791. Agrotis lucens. (Plate LXXII. fig. 9.) 

 SpcBlotis lucens, Butl. Trans. Ent. See. 1881, p. 179. 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown, the scales tipped with grey; 

 legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen reddish brown 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey sufi'uscd with fuscous 

 brown and irrorated with black ; a double waved subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; a similar antemedial line filled in 

 with greyish and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform very 

 indistinct, greyish ; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli 

 defined by black, the former small, round ; postmedial line 

 double, filled in with greyish, dentate and produced to points on 

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

 incurved ; a dentate grey subterminal line slightly angled outwards 



