AGEIOPIS. 319 



with black, a large discoidal black spot, irregularly waved post- 

 medial line, and terminal series of spots. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls. ; AtrsxRiA, Carinthia, Zeller Coll. ; Hungary; Switzer- 

 land ; Spain, Castile ; Sardinia ; N. Italy ; Scandinavia ; Russia, 

 Livonia, St. Petersburg, Caucasia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Ex]i.A2- 

 52 millim. 



Larva. Meyrick, Brit. Lep. p. 54 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 320, pi. 172. f. 1. 



Pale greenish ochreous freckled with black, forming a dorsal 

 series of diamond-shaped marks ; dorsal line pale, interrupted, 

 black-edged; spiracular line pale, black-edged above. Food-plant, 

 Quercus, resting by day on the trunks, the colour of which it 

 resembles. 4-G. 



2486. Agriopis SBruginea. 



Noctua (BTuginea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., !Noct. f. 374 (1827); Dup. Lep. 



Fr. yi. p. 301, pi. 91. f. 6 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. pi. 237; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 182. 

 NocPua mioleuca, Hiibn. Bur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 745-46 (1827). 

 Noctua chioleuca, Treit. Eur. Schmett. s. 2, p. 46 (1835) ; Frr. Neue Beitr. 



iii. pi. 279. ff. 2, 3. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; tegulae white, with 

 yellow patches at base and dark lines at middle and tips ; tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with brown ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous 

 brown leaving pale segmental lines. Fore wing purplish grey ; the 

 costal area suffused with greenish white to the subterminal line; a 

 sinuous black streak below base of cell with some yellow scales at 

 its extremity ; a subbasal patch of yellow scales on inner margin ; 

 subbasal line represented by two black strite from costa ; ante- 

 medial line double filled in with whitish, oblique, waved ; claviform 

 large and extending to the postmedial line, defined by black, and 

 with slight white patch beyond it ; orbicular and reniform greenish 

 white, defined by black and with some blackish in centres, the 

 former rounded or somewhat quadrate, open above, the latter 

 large ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line double, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below 

 vein 4 and angled inwards in submedian fold where it has a white 

 lunule on it with yellow patch beyond it, some white points beyond 

 it on costa; subterminal line whitish, with more or less yellow 

 scales on it and slightly defined on each side by fuscous, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and angled inwards in 

 discal and submedian folds ; the veins of terminal area with fine 

 black streaks ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia with fine white line 

 at base and intersected with whitish. Hind wing white, the veins 

 brown ; a slight discoidal spot and interrupted subterminal line 

 stronger towards tornus ; a fine dark terminal line and brownish 

 line through the cilia ; in female the wing is wholly suff'used with 

 brown ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a small discoidal spot and slight sinuous postmedial line. 



