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105. Agrotis rubrilinea.. 



Mas. Cervina ; caput rufescens ; antenna albida, late pectinate ; 

 thorax antics ferrugineus, fascia rufescente ; abdomen palli- 

 dum, apice rufescens aut fuscum ; alee anticce latiusculce, extus 

 subquadrata, strigis nonnullis transversis minutis nigricanti- 

 bus, linea exteriore transversa incompleta e guttis nigris, ma- 

 cula subapicali fusca, lunulis marginalibus nigris, claviformi 

 obsoleta, orbiculari parva fusca, reniformi magna obscure 

 fusca, guttis duabus contiguis nigris ; posticce cinerece, vends 

 marginibusque fuscescentibus. 



Var. Ala anticce lituris subobsoletis. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Head reddish. Antennae whitish. Tho- 

 rax ferruginous in front, with a reddish band. Abdomen pale, red- 

 dish or brown at the tip. Fore wings with some transverse minute 

 blackish streaks, with an exterior incomplete transverse line of black 

 dots, with a brown subapical spot, and with black marginal lunules ; 

 claviform spot obsolete ; orbicular represented by a small brown 

 spot, and having another small brown spot behind it; reniform 

 large, dark brown, of the usual form, and having two black dots 

 between it and the orbicular ; nearly all the above marks are occa- 

 sionally partly or nearly wholly obsolete. Hind wings cinereous ; 

 veins and borders brownish. Length of the body 6 — 7 lines ; of the 

 wings 14 — 16 lines. 



a— c. Australia. Presented by Major-General Hardwicke. 



Group 5. 

 Like the fifth European group. 



106. Agrotis recondita. 



Mas et foem. Ferrugineo-fusca, subtus albida ; caput antice 

 album ; palpi albi, articulo So elongato cylindrico ; thorax 

 lineis transversis albidis ; abdomen cinereum ; alee anticce nigro 

 conspersce, nigricante subnebulosce, lineis transversis nigris 

 duplicatis undulatis, orbiculari et reniformi nig ri cant i bus, 

 ilia parva subrotunda ; posticce cinerece, marginibus latis fus- 

 cescentibus, litura subtus discali fusca. Mas. — Anlennce 

 mediocriter pectinate. 



Female. Ferruginous-brown, whitish beneath. Head white in 

 front. Palpi while ; third joint cylindrical, almost half the length 



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