AGR0TIS EXCLAMATION [S. 9 



on the lower edge of which the spiracles are situated ; 

 beneath these after a line of ground colour is a paler 

 or dirty whitish line followed by the drab-coloured 

 ground of the belly. 



Note that the ground colour of the back, as far as 

 the spiracles, is a warm brown, of a lighter or darker 

 tint ; the ground colour of the lower surface below 

 the spiracles is drab, paler than the back. 



The head is of a brownish-drab, darkest about the 

 mouth, with a blackish-brown streak down the front of 

 each lobe ; on the second segment the shining plate 

 is margined in front with dark brown, through which 

 runs the pale line before mentioned. 



The tubercular or warty dots or trapezoidals of the 

 back are dark-brown, the hinder pairs a little larger 

 than the front pairs ; those on the sides are rather 

 paler brown, and those below the spiracles still paler, 

 and each bearing a short bristly hair. The spiracles 

 are quite black and furnish the important character by 

 which at a glance this larva can be distinguished from 

 its congener A. segetum, as in A. exclamationis, the 

 spiracles are never smaller but generally larger than 

 the wart-like dots immediately above and behind 

 them. 



The warm brown of the back (without regard to 

 depth of tint) without a tinge of grey or green may 

 help us to determine this larva, but an infallible guide 

 is found in the extra large spiracles which distinguish 

 A. exclamationis. 



By the 2nd of September all but one individual had 

 died off. (W. B., 1874, Note Book II, 76-78.) 



Agrotis cortioea. 



Plate LXXI, fig. 4. 



Few things have afforded me greater satisfaction 

 than my having been able to figure and describe, I 



