Agrochola haematidea, the southern chestnut, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

The species was first described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1827.

Forewing smooth, deep chestnut brown, darker along inner margin, paler in terminal area; cell and median shade deeper chestnut; lines indistinct, the outer double; submarginal line preceded by a row of small black marks and on costa by a blackish blotch; stigmata small, undefined, pale; the orbicular oblique nearly touching reniform at bottom; hindwing fuscous, the fringe pinkish.

The moth flies from October to November depending on the location.

In England it was first discovered by Professor Colin Smith of Cambridge University.