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1635c. Agrotis elavirena, Moore ; P.Z.S., 1881, p. 352, pi. 38, f. 4. 

 Graphiphora vulpina, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 118 (1882). 



9 . Head and teguhe red-brown, the latter with dark patches irrorated with 

 white ; thorax purple-brown, the scales tipped with white ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen grey-brown. Forewing red-brown with slight white irroration at base, 

 below costa, and on the veins ; subbasal line obsolete ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 waved ; claviform represented by a dark point at its extremity ; orbicular indis- 

 tinctly defined by brown, round ; reniform ocbreous whitish defined by brown ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; traces of some subterminal points ; a fine pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hindwing fuscous brown, the cilia pale purplish ; the underside 

 pale, the costal area and termen tinged with pink, a dark discoidal lunule and 

 indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hob. — Sikhim. Exp. 46 mill. 



1635rf. Agrotis tinota, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1900, p. 41, Hmpsn Cat. 

 Lep. Phal. B. M. IV., p. 429, pi. 71, f. 7. 



9. Head and thorax purple brown ; palpi deep red-brown, pale at tips ; 

 frons and shoulders suffused with grey ; tibia? and tarsi fuscous, the spurs 

 with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous-brown, the dorsal tuft and ventral surface 

 rufous. Forewing red-brown suffused with purplish grey, except the end 

 of cell and area from it to costa at subtermedial line ; faint traces of a subbasal 

 line ; an indistinct double antemedial line filled in with grey, angled outwards 

 below costa, on median nervure, and on vein 1, and inwards in cell and submedian 

 fold ; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by rufous ; orbicular and 

 reniform irrorated with grey and with grey annuli slightly defined by blackish, 

 the former rounded, its lower extremity produced to a point, sometimes 

 connected with the reniform ; the postmedial line very indistinct, double, even 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, bent outwards to 

 inner margin; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, slightly defined by rufous 

 on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, and excurved at middle ; traces of a 

 terminal series of black points. Hindwing fuscous-brown ; the cilia purplish- 

 red ; the underside pale purplish-red, the costal area irrorated with fuscous- 

 brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab.—W. China, Omei Shan ; Punjab, Simla. Exp. 36-40, mill. 



1636. Agrotis cerastioides. 



1644. Agrotis griseivena. 



1638. Agrotis cervina. 



1638a. Agrotis poliogkamma, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal., B. M. IV., p. 438, 

 pi. 71, f. 16 (1903). 



9. Head and thorax black-brown, mixed with grey and palebrown ; tegulse 

 with black medial line and black at tips ; tarsi tinged with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous mixed with dark brown. Forewing dark brown, irrorated with grey, 

 thickly on basal and terminal areas; the veins streaked with grey ; the subbasal 

 line represented by black striae from costa and median nervure, defined by 

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