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the cell before and between the stigmata suffused with black ; the postmedial 

 line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, and produced to points on the veins, 

 bent outward, below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line indistinct, defined on inner side by an oblique black bar from costa, angled 

 •outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hindwing dark fuscous brown, with fine ochreous line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside irrorated with grey. 



Habitat. — W. China, Omei-shan. Wa-ssu-kou ; Punjab, Simla, Dalhousie. 

 Exp. 52-69 mill. 



1648. Agkotis consanguinea, Moore, P.Z.S., 1881, p. 333. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with reddish brown, some of the scales 

 tipped with grey ; tegulse sometimes ochreous except at tips ; abdomen grey 

 brown, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Forewing dark brown with a 

 greyish gloss ; the costal area ochreous or tinged with rufous to the postmedial 

 line ; the sub-basal line represented by a black point below costa and a curved 

 line between cell and vein 1, followed by a blackish patch with black point above 

 it in cell ; the antemedial line double, oblique, minutely waved ; claviform 

 with its extremity defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black 

 and their centres by brown, the former round, or somewhat oblique elliptical, 

 the latter with some rufous on its upper part, the cell before and between them 

 black ; the postmedial line double, dentate and produced to points on the veins 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the 

 subterminal line defined on inner side by an oblique black bar from costa 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hindwing pale 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia grey with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 pale, the costal area thickly irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Habitat. — Kashmir, Dras, Scinde Valley ; Punjab, Simla, Dalhousie, Thun- 

 diani, Mjurree, Dharms/da : Tibet, Yatung. Exp. 42-50 mill. 



1648&. Ageotis Triangulum, Hi'ifn. Berl. Mag. III., p. 306 (1776). 



Noctua sigma. Esp. Schmett. IV., pi. 186, ff. 1*3 (1796) ; Hiibri. 

 Samml Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 497. 



Head and tegular except tips brownish white ; palpi blackish at sides except 

 at tips ; extremities of tegulas and thorax red-brown ; tarsi fuscous with pale 

 rings ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with dark brown, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface rufous. Forewing pale greyish brown suffused with red-brown ; the 

 sub-basal line pale, with black spots on its inner side below costa and cell, a black 

 patch beyond it below the cell with a point in cell above its extremity ; the 

 antemedial line double, the outer blackish and strong from costa to submedian 

 fold, slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly incurved 

 to above inner margin, where it is angled outwards ; claviform with its upper 

 edge defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli defined 

 by black, the former oblique v-shaped, open above, the latter constricted 

 at middle, the cell before and between them black-brown ; the postmedial 



