. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 258 NocTiriD-ii;. 1494. Tiracola plagiata. Agrotis plagiata, Wlk. xi. 740 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 34. pi. 148, ff. 1,1a; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 282; Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 286, pi. xxvii. f. 14. Agrotis plagifera, Wlk. xi. 741 (1857). Agrotis spectahilis, Wlk. xxxii. 704 (1865). Agrotis grandirena, Eegensb. 1868, p. 149. Head and thorax varying from ocliraeeous or g;reyish, sometimes with an olive tinge, to ferruginous ; palpi black except at tips ; some black s
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 258 NocTiriD-ii;. 1494. Tiracola plagiata. Agrotis plagiata, Wlk. xi. 740 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 34. pi. 148, ff. 1,1a; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 282; Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 286, pi. xxvii. f. 14. Agrotis plagifera, Wlk. xi. 741 (1857). Agrotis spectahilis, Wlk. xxxii. 704 (1865). Agrotis grandirena, Eegensb. 1868, p. 149. Head and thorax varying from ocliraeeous or g;reyish, sometimes with an olive tinge, to ferruginous ; palpi black except at tips ; some black scales near upper edge of patagia ; tibiae irrorated with black ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface rufous irrorated with black, a sublateral series of black points. Fore wing varying from pale ochreous or greyish to rufous, brown or purple-brown, sometimes tinged with olive, and sparsely irrorated with black ; subbasal line sometimes represented by black points on costa and in cell, the antemedial line by black points on costa and veins sometimes connected by a faint waved line, excurved from costa to vein 1 ; claviform absent; orbicular represented by part. Fig. 61.—Tiracola plagiata, ^. \. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) of the whitish annulus or absent; reniform large, whitish defined by black and its centre defined by black, its lower part filled in with fuscous or wholly filled in with fuscous ; a more or less prominent medial line, oblique from costa to median nervure, then waved; postmedial line double and oblique from costa to vein 7, then repre- sented by a series of black points on the veins sometimes connected by a crenulate line, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; in the darker specimens, the apical part of costal area paler or grey; subterminal line ochreous defined on each side by brown, indistinct towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7, incurved to vein 4, excurved to submedian fold and bent outwards to tornus, a dark poi
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