EUERETAGROTIS. 647 



1112. Eueretagrotis attenta. (Plate LXXYII. fig. 22.) 



Agrotis attenta, Grote, Can. Ent. \i. p. 131 (1874); Smith. Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 60. 



Head, tegulse, and patagia reddish brown, mixed with black ; 

 thorax gre_y ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wiug dull reddish brown mixed with grey ; 

 a black streak below base of cell ; a double, waved, subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique double, waved, antemedial 

 line ; claviform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black with grey annuli and brown centres, the 

 former round or elliptical ; the postmedial line dentate and pro- 

 duced to points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 incurved in discal fold and below vein 4 ; the subterminal line 

 obscurely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, the area beyond it rather greyer ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing grey tinged with brown ; a terminal series 

 of dark striae ; the underside with discoidal lunule and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States, Maine 

 (PacJcard), 1 J type, 'New York (Doubledcnj, Bailey), 1 Si 1 $ • 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



1113. Eueretagrotis fuscostigma. 



Noctua fuscostigma, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. .51, pi. 5. f. 10 (1864); Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138. 

 Graphiphora lubentla, Biitl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 362 (1879). 

 Noctua hysgina, Oberlli. Et. Eut. v. p. 76, pi. 7. f. 8 (1880). 



Head and thorax purple-brown, the scales tipped with grej^ ; 

 palpi dark brown, pale at tips ; tegulae tipped with grey ; legs 

 blackish, the tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen pale, the anal 

 tuft fulvous. Fore wing purple-brown ; a double subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa and with 

 black point beyond it in cell and short streak below the cell ; a 

 double oblique antemedial line angled outwards below costa and 

 excurved above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform purple- 

 fuscous slightly defined by grey, the former oblique, elliptical, the 

 cell before and between them and the area below the cell suff'used 

 with dark olive-brown ; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, 

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

 subterminal line pale, defined by brown marks on inner side and 

 by a black bar and some points towards costa, slightly angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a crenulate terminal line. 

 Hind wing yellowish suff'used with fuscous brown especially towards 

 termen ; the underside yellowish, with more or less fuscous on 

 terminal area. 



Hah. Amukland, 1 S , Askold I. ; Japan, Yokohama (Pri/er), 

 1 2 1 type luhentia, Tokio {Maries), 1 S , Oiwake (Pryer), 4 5 , 

 Hakodate (Leech), 1 $ . Bxy. 40-44 millim. 



