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(9) Agrotis dislocata Walk. 



Leucania dislocata Walk. Cat. ix. p. 112. 



c/?. 34 — 2>1 '"'^- Head and a marginal band along front of thorax light 

 ochreous-brown, rest of thorax whitish-fuscous. Antennae in / bidentate with tri- 

 angular processes. Forewings light fuscous, more or less irrorated with white, and 

 sometimes darker-sprinkled ; veins marked with dark fuscous lines, except lower 

 margin of cell, which is white ; interior of cell paler and more ochreous, usually marked 

 with a black dot towards base ; orbicular and reniform combined into an elongate 

 posteriorly abruptly dilated mark, fuscous, outlined with black ; a darker fuscous black- 

 outlined streak beneath cell from base to middle, somewhat dilated posteriorly ; a pale 

 ochreous longitudinal suffusion beneath this from base to near tornus ; sometimes short 

 undefined blackish dashes or dark-outlined marks between bases of veins 2 — 6. Hind- 

 wings fuscous. 



7 specimens; 3 Kona, Hawaii, at 1500 — 4000 feet, in June; i Kaholuamano, 

 Kauai, at 4000 feet, in April ; 3 Lanai, at 2000 feet, in February. Also several 

 others received from Mr Blackburn and in the British Museum collection, apparently 

 from Oahu. 



(10) Agrotis xipJiias, sp. nov. 



(/ ?. 33 — 36 mm. Head dark fuscous, sometimes mixed or suffused with whitish. 

 Thorax fuscous to fuscous-whitish, anterior half of collar sharply dark fuscous, with 

 a triangular blackish blotch on each side of back behind collar, sometimes extended 

 as a streak to posterior margin. Antennae in </" bidentate with triangular teeth. 

 Forewings brownish or fuscous, more or less irrorated or sometimes much suffused 

 with whitish ; a thick black streak, sometimes edged with pale yellowish, beneath 

 cell from base to middle, seldom only indicated by black outline ; sometimes two 

 small black spots between bases of veins 2 — 4 ; orbicular and reniform black, or light 

 or dark fuscous black-outlined, connected by a narrow black spot, orbicular pear-shaped, 

 sometimes preceded by a black mark ; second line indicated by a series of dark dots ; 

 subterminal pale, obscure, partially edged with darker suffusion. Hindwings rather 

 light fuscous. (Plate IV. fig. 7.) 



14 specimens, Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet (except one at 9000), in April, May, 

 and October. Variable in intensity of marking. 



(11) Agrotis vielanonetira, sp. nov. 



c/'. 36 mm. Head brown, mixed with dark fuscous. Thorax pale greyish- 

 ochreous irrorated with fuscous, anterior half of collar dark fuscous. Antennae biden- 

 tate with triangular teeth. Forewings pale ochreous mixed with light brownish, veins 



