. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. AGTIOTIS. 441 and circumference defined by fuscous; the postmedial line more towards termen than usual, curved, dentate, rather indistinct; the subterminal line pale, defined by brownish on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points usually present; cilia ochreous with fuscous line through them. Hind wing dark brown, the interspaces of diseal area whitish and semihyaline ; cilia brown at base, whitish at tips ; the under- side pale, the costal and terminal areas brownish irr
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. AGTIOTIS. 441 and circumference defined by fuscous; the postmedial line more towards termen than usual, curved, dentate, rather indistinct; the subterminal line pale, defined by brownish on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points usually present; cilia ochreous with fuscous line through them. Hind wing dark brown, the interspaces of diseal area whitish and semihyaline ; cilia brown at base, whitish at tips ; the under- side pale, the costal and terminal areas brownish irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and curved sinuous postmedial line. Ilah. Mexico, Jalapa (2'/vy;7?o), 2 S, 1 $; Guatemala {Rodri- guez), 2 cJ > 1 $ type Godman-Salvin Coll. Exj). 56-58 millim. h-. Palpi with the 2ud joint fringed with hair in front, (t^. Abdomen of female with pair of sublateral foveas near extremity, a*. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma more or less elongate, elliptical uiiicolor. i'. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma round siiccica. 75S. Agrotis unicolor. ]\himr^lra uiiicoJor, Wlk. ix. 233 (1856). JS'vcfiia clanclcstina, Harris, Inj. Ins. ]). 448 (1862) ; Riley, 1st Rep. Tns. Mo. p. 7U, pi. 1. f. 13; Smith, Cat. Nocfc. N. Am. p. 75; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. Mamcstra niffricejjs, Wlk. xxxii. 659 (1865). Head and teguloe black-brown ; thorax grey-brown, the scales tipped with grey ; legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen. Fig. 77.—Agrods unicolor, §• t- grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown, irrorated with grey and fuscous ; a fine black streak often present in l)asal half of submedian fold; a double, waved, subbasal lino from costa to submedian fold ; the antemcdial line double, acutely angled outwards below costa, in cell, in submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on subcostal and median nervures and vein 1 ; claviform sometimes indicated by a few black scales ; orbicular and rcniform defined by black, the for
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