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Show 500 MR. J. H. LEECH O N THE [Nov. 19, Agrotis-ingrata, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. (1878); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pi. xxix. fig. 9 (1878). Several specimens, coll. Pryer. I took this species at Nagasaki in May, Sakata in August, Nikko in September, and Oiwake in October, and Mr. Smith at Hakone in August. Yokohama (Pryer and Manley) ; Gifu (Pryer) ; Oiwake, Nikko, Nagasaki, Sakata (Leech); Hakone (Smith) ; India, Europe. 120. AGROTIS INFORMIS, sp. n. (Plate L. fig. 1.) o* . Primaries pale violet-grey suffused with brownish, basal third tinged with tawny ; abbreviated basal line dark edged externally with whitish, inner line pale edged externally with darker ; outer line dark, serrated, curved, edged with paler ; orbicular outlined and more or less filled up with black ; reniform large, black, and clearly defined ; claviform black, well developed: secondaries pearly, with a black lunule and narrow marginal border. Under surface of primaries fuliginous with a darker central transverse line ; secondaries pearly white, fuscous on costa, central line indicated by some black oblong dots on nervures. 2 . In this sex the orbicular is more elongated and the secondaries are suffused with fuscous on the outer margin. Var. CONFLUENS. The reniform and orbicular united, forming a large, somewhat triangular, blotch. Expanse 44 millim. Six specimens, coil. Pryer. My native collector obtained four examples at Hakodate in June or July. Allied to A. exclamationis. Yokohama 1, Yesso (Pryer); Hakodate (Nat. Coll.). 121. AGROTIS OBSCURA. Noctua obscura, Brahm, Insektenkal. i. p. 191 (1790). Noctua bigramma, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 150. fig. 2. Noctua ravida, Hiibn. Noct. fig. 126 (post 1800). Agrotis ravida, Treit. Schmett. v. 1. 207 ; Guen. Noct. i. p. 300. Graphiphora crassa, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 130 (1827). Graphiphora valida, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 711 (1865). Graphiphora caliginea, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 165 (1878). Several specimens, coll. Pryer. I took examples of this species at Gensan in July and at Oiwake in October. My native collector secured a long and variable series at Hakodate in July. Several specimens agree with Walker's 67. valida and 67. caliginea, Butl. Others are exactly identical with the typical European A. ravida, whilst others again are not quite like |
