. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. AGROTIS. 441 palpi at sides except extremity, antenuce, and base of tegulae black ; tibiae and tarsi mixed with black, with pale bands ; abdomen Avhitish, suffused with reddish brown especially towards extremity. Pore wing purplish brown irrorated with grey ; a sinuous black subbasal line from costa to submedian. fold ; a pale subbasal line defined by black on outer side, angled outwards below costa, inwards on vein 1 and excurved above inner margin ; claviform large, defined by whitish, its base black or rarel
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. AGROTIS. 441 palpi at sides except extremity, antenuce, and base of tegulae black ; tibiae and tarsi mixed with black, with pale bands ; abdomen Avhitish, suffused with reddish brown especially towards extremity. Pore wing purplish brown irrorated with grey ; a sinuous black subbasal line from costa to submedian. fold ; a pale subbasal line defined by black on outer side, angled outwards below costa, inwards on vein 1 and excurved above inner margin ; claviform large, defined by whitish, its base black or rarely entirely filled in by black ; the orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by a few black scales, the former round, the latter with its lower edges produced inwards on median nervure and often confluent with the orbicular; a quadrate black patch in cell between the upper parts. Fig. 78.—Agrotis rectangula, S • \- of stigmata; two black spots on medial part of costa; the post- medial line minutely dentate, black, defined by grey on outer side, strongly bent ontwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line defined by pale brownish on outer side, angled outwards at vein 7, then dentate ; some dark points on termen. Hind wing pale suffused with brown, especially on the veins and terminal half ; the underside with discoidal spot and curved posbmedial line on costal half of wing. The antennse of male have some rough black scales at base of shaft. Ab. 1. anderreggi. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker purplish fuscous,—Alps ; TJrals ; C. Asia ; Siberia ; Kamschatka. Ab. 2. acutangula. Fore wing browner, with the stigmata prominent.—C. Asia. Hab. Switzerland, Frey Coll., 3 J, 2 $ ; Italy ; Austria ; RiTMELiA ; Russia, Kasan, 2 c? , Urals ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 $ ; W. Turkestan, Ala Tau, Issyk-kul; E. Turkestan, Thian-Shan Mts.; E. Siberia, Kamschatka. Exjy. 36 miUim. *7
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