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white lower and upper tiots : liindwing pale cinereous-l)i-o\v-n, the veins darker 

 brown ; cilia edged with ciuereous-white. Body dark brown ; palpi and tarsi with 

 black bands. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



From the late Dr. Thwaites' Collection. 



EADINACRA THORACICA (Plate 148, Fig. 4). 



Male and female : forewing pale ochreous-brown, with a very indistinct trans- 

 verse basal, antemedial, and a medial blackish-scaled sinuous lino, a discal slightly 

 recurved pale ochreous line, and a less distinct sinuous pale submargiual line ; the 

 discal line with a few blackish scales along its inner border ; and a more conspicuous 

 patch of blackish scales before the middle of the sinuous submargiual line ; along the 

 extreme outer margin is a row of minute black dots ; cilia with a pale inner line : 

 hind wing whitish-cinereous, semitransparent, veins and marginal line ochreous-brown. 

 Thorax in male with a broad brownish-black band in front ; abdomen brown above ; 

 palpi at the side, and bands on forelegs above dark brown. 



Expanse 1-/-^ inch. 



Described from specimens obtained from the Collection of the late Dr. Thwaites. 



Family NOCTUID-S. 



Imago of moderate size ; forewings smooth or shining, crossing one another a 

 little in repose and forming a roof almost flat ; body stout, abdomen flat, not crested. 

 Larva thick, smooth, shining or velvety, generally of dull colours ; lives on low plants, 

 concealing itself either under leaves on the ground or even in subterranean galleries. 

 Pupa subterranean, enclosed in an earthen cocoon. {Staiiifoii.) 



Genus AGROTIS. 



Agrotis, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 1 (1806); Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 66 (1816) ; Guenee; 

 Walker. 



Male : forewing elongate, apex obtuse, exterior margin oblique, slightly convex ; 

 cell extending to two-thirds the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end 

 of the cell, second at one-fourth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell, ascending and joined 

 to third by a very short spur near the base ; discocellular concave, upper radial from 

 end of the cell in a line with subcostal, lower radial from near the lower end ; middle 

 median from angle close to end of the cell, lower median at one-fourth before the end ; 

 submedian recurved : hindwing short, broad, apex convex, exterior margin somewhat 

 angular in the middle ; costal and subcostal joined at their base; two subcostals from 



