﻿1702 CATALOGUE OF 



Male, Testaceous, whitish heneath. Third joint of the palpi 

 about half the length of the second. AntennsB very minutely cre- 

 nulate. Thorax with a brown band in front. Tarsi with black 

 bands. Fore wings with very indistinct and irregular pale fawn- 

 coloured bands; some minute black costal marks, one of which ex- 

 tends by an oblique line into the disk, and is there furcate; a very 

 incomplete exterior zigzag oblique black line dividing it from 

 another furcate black streak ; under side and hind wings white. 

 Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



Agrotis costigera. 



Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; palpi apice albidi; antenncB simplices ; 

 thorax fascia antica tenui interrupta nigra ; abdomen cine- 

 reum ; alee anticcB nigra subconspersce, costa pallida liiuris 

 nigricantibus, orbiculari obsoleta^ reniformi parva nigro mar- 

 ginata ; posticce albidce. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 whitish at the tips. Antennae simple. Thorax in front with a 

 slender interrupted black band. Abdomen cinereous. Fore wings 

 very minutely speckled with black ; costa pale, with some blackish 

 marks ; orbicular mark obsolete ; reniform small, with a black bor- 

 der, which is incomplete on the interior side. Hind wings whitish. 

 Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. Chili. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



Page 369. 



Sp^lotis squalorum. 



S. ValesiacsB simillima; alee aniicce plus elongates^ sordide iestacecB 

 et fuscescentes, fusco saturate conspersce, apice fuscce, linea 

 submarginali subobsoleta aut obsoleta^ lineis maculisque 

 fuscis. 



Agrotis sabuletorum, Eversm, Faun. Volg. 205, 8. 



Agrotis squalorum, Eversm, Bull. >Soc, Imp. Nat, Mosc. 1856, 2, 



221,58. 

 Spaelotis Valesiaca, var.p 



South Kussia. 



