188 NocTun)^:. 



black line waved, the antemedial dentate ; the orbicular and reni- 

 forin with black outlines, and often with a black streak between 

 them, the former often elongate ; claviform narrow and often 

 obsolete ; the double waved postmedial line curved and indistinct ; 

 three pale specks on costa towards apex ; the submarginal pale 

 line indistinct. Underside of both wings with a postmedial line. 



Hah. N". America ; Europe ; Japan ; China ; Thandiani, Punjab. 

 Exp. 48 milim. 



1646. Agrotis modesta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 351; C. $ S. 



no. 1994. 

 Spselotis ambigua, Butl. III. Het. vii ? p. 54, pi. 128, figs. 10, 11. 



Differs from ravida in being pale or dark red-brown ; the 

 abdomen and hind wing dark fuscous. Fore wing with no black 

 streak from base ; the antemedial double line waved ; the orbicular 

 rounded ; claviform present. Underside without postmedial line ; 

 hind wing with a dark spot at end of cell. 



Hah. Dharmsala. Exp. 44 millim. 



1647. Agrotis c-nigrum, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 852 ; C. $ 8. no. 2016 ; 



Hiihn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 24, fig. Ill ; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, 



pi. 176, fig. 4 (larva). 

 Bombyx non-atrum, Esp. Schmett. Ear. iii, text, p. 385. 

 Noctua gothica, var. singularis, Esp. Schmett. Eur. iii, pi. 76, fig. 3. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing dark brown or red-brown. Palpi 

 black at sides ; collar whitish, tipped with brown, and with a fuscous 

 line on it ; abdomen fuscous. Pore wing with double subbasal 

 and antemedial evenly curved black lines ; a pale triangular patch 

 from the middle of costa obliterating the orbicular, which has tri- 

 angular black patches before and after it ; reniform large, pale and 

 fuscous, and defined by inner and outer lines ; claviform small and 

 indistinct ; an indistinct double waved and much curved postmedial 

 line with a series of dark specks on it ; the submarginal line indis- 

 tinct, angled and defined by black below the costa. Hind wing 

 whitish, suffused with fuscous. Underside with indistinct post- 

 medial line and cell-spot to hind wing. 



Larva pink, with a broad dark brown subdorsal band ; a lateral 

 yellow band with brown spots on it ; head red-brown. 



Hah. 1ST. America; Europe; Japan ; N.W. Himalayas ; Khasis ; 

 Bombay ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 44 millim. 



1648. Agrotis ditrapezium, Borhh. Schmett. Eur. iv, p. 515; C. fy S. 



no. 2023. 

 Noctua tristigma, Treitsche, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. v, p. 243. 

 Ochropleura consanguinea, M oore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 353; C. ty S. 



no. 2020. 

 Ochropleura renalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 55; C. $ S. 



no. 2025. 



Differs from c-nigrum in the collar being usually of the ground- 

 colour, sometimes rufous. Pore wing with the whole costal area 



