LEPIDOPTEHA HETEROCERA. 335 



Fawn-colour (male) or cinereous (female). Thorax with a 

 black band in front. Abdomen testaceous. Fore wings darker 

 along the costa, with some black marks near the base, and with two 

 double transverse undulating black lines, one towards the base, the 

 other exterior; claviform spot elongate, mostly black; orbicular 

 long and narrow, with a whitish border ; reniform large, of the usual 

 form, mostly blackish ; submarginal streaks lanceolate, whitish in 

 the male, cinereous in the female. Hind wings white, brownish 

 about the borders in the female. Length of the body 8 lines; of 

 the wings 18 lines. 



a — c. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Group 2. 

 Like the third European group. 



64. Agrotis ignicans. 



Mas et fcem. Sordide ochraceo-Jlava ; thorax antice maris niger, 

 foem. rufescens ; alee anticce nigro conspersce, apud marginem 

 exteriorem rufo-ferruginea:, lineis duabus medianis e punctis 

 nigris, reniformi e macula ferruginea, lituris aliis obsoletis ; 

 posticce albce, opalina, semihyalina?, margine obscuriore. 



Agrotis ignicans, Guen. Noct. i. 274, 440. 



Brazil. 



Var. ? Mas. Pallide cervina ; antenna simplices ; thorax antice 

 atro fasciatus ; abdomen testaceum ; alee antica? atro con- 

 spersce, margine exteriore fwcescente, claviformi el orbiculari 

 obsoletis, reniformi e guttis nonnullis nigris, linea exteriore e 

 guttis nigris ; posticce alba, marginibus angustis pallide 

 fuscis. 

 Male. Pale bright fawn-colour. Antenna? simple. Thorax 

 with a deep black band in front. Abdomen testaceous. Fore wings 

 minutely speckled with black, brownish along the exterior border ; 

 claviform and orbicular spots obsolete ; reniform composed of some 

 black dots; an exterior row of black dots. Hind wings white, with 

 narrow pale brown borders. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the 

 wings 16 lines. 

 a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



