. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 376 NOCTUID^. Ab. 1. edda. Much darker; head, thorax, and abdomen grey- brown ; fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown; hind wing brown.—Shetland Is. Ab. 2. limbata. Fore wing suffused with blue-green, the terminal area darker.—France, Gironde. Hob. BritaIjST, Shetland (Scdvage), Scotland, Forres (Salvage), England, Leech Coll., Ireland, Derry {Salvage) ; Fkance, Sand Coll.; Belgium ; Germany ; Switzerland ; Tirol ; jST. Spain ; Italy ; Denmark, Jutland ; Sweden. Exp. 30-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 376 NOCTUID^. Ab. 1. edda. Much darker; head, thorax, and abdomen grey- brown ; fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown; hind wing brown.—Shetland Is. Ab. 2. limbata. Fore wing suffused with blue-green, the terminal area darker.—France, Gironde. Hob. BritaIjST, Shetland (Scdvage), Scotland, Forres (Salvage), England, Leech Coll., Ireland, Derry {Salvage) ; Fkance, Sand Coll.; Belgium ; Germany ; Switzerland ; Tirol ; jST. Spain ; Italy ; Denmark, Jutland ; Sweden. Exp. 30-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 104; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 32, pi. 141. f. 1. Light brown, with dark irroration on sides ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale with dark edges; spiracular line pale ochreous; head pale brownish with dark markings. Food-plants : Cytisus, Rumex, Stellaria etc. 9-6. 659. Agrotis docilis. Agrotis docilis, Grote, Bull. Geol, Surv. vi. p. 2o9 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 68. Agrotis ingenicidata,Em\th,'Q\i\\, Nat. , p. 216 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. Head and thorax clothed with dark brown, black, and white scales and hair; tegulae with the basal half whitish, defined by a black medial line; abdomen grey and brown. Fore wing bluish gi'ey, irrorated and in places suffused with brown ; a double, waved, brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, waved, bent inwards at subcostal nervure and angled outwards above inner margin; claviform large, brownish, and. Ficr. 72.—Agrotis docilis, S. -,-. defined by black ; orbicular and reniform grey, with some brown scales in centre and defined by black, the former large, oblique, elliptical, touching the antemedial line below costa, the latter large ; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line irregularly dentate, defined by brown snffusion and with brown patch at costa, angled outwards at vein 7 ; a
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