. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 390 NOCTUIDJE. Head and tliorax pale to deep purple-brown, often mixed with white; _ palpi black except at extremity; tcgula) except at tips white tinged with olive ; tibiae and tarsi blackish, ringed with white ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing pale grey, tinged with purplish brown to deep purple-grey; the sub- basal line double, blackish, curved from costa to vein 1 but interrupted at cell, and with some brown or black suffusion beyond it in sub- median fold ; the aiitomedial
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 390 NOCTUIDJE. Head and tliorax pale to deep purple-brown, often mixed with white; _ palpi black except at extremity; tcgula) except at tips white tinged with olive ; tibiae and tarsi blackish, ringed with white ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing pale grey, tinged with purplish brown to deep purple-grey; the sub- basal line double, blackish, curved from costa to vein 1 but interrupted at cell, and with some brown or black suffusion beyond it in sub- median fold ; the aiitomedial line double, oblique, waved and excurved above inner margin ; claviform with its extremity defined by a V- shaped black mark; orbicular brownish white, defined by black in. Fig. 76.—Agrotis c-nigrum, (^. the form of a very open V confluent with the brownish-white medial costal area; reniform rufous above, purplish fuscous below, its centre defined by brown and its outline by black; a waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- curved, dentate, and with series of black points at the veins ; a pale sinuous subterminal line with obliiiue black striga on costa, and the area beyond it rather darker ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, tinged with brown especially on the veins, costal, and terminal areas ; the underside with discoidal point and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Canada, Kenfrew Co., 2 S, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 S; , New York, 1 c?, 4 $ , Schenectady (Lintner), 2 $ , Evans Centre (Grote), 1 2 , Illinois {DouUeday), 1 <3, Kansas {Snow), 2 $ ; Mexico, Jalapa (Boege), 1 c?, 1 $ , (iodman-Salvin Coll. ; C. & S. Europe, Germany, Zeller & Prey Colls. ; Norway, llomsdal, 1 cj"; KussiA, Livonia, 1 5 ; C. & N. Asia ; Siberia, Schigansk, 1 5 ; Japan, Hakodate, 1 c? , Oiwake (Prger), 1 2 ; Corea, Gensan, 1 1^; W. China,
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