32 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



end of the cell ; discocellular bent near tlie middle, radial from below the middle ; 

 two upper medians from end of tlie cell, lower at about one-fourth ; submedian and 

 internal straight. Body stout, thorax compactly clothed, not crested ; palpi porrect, 

 first and second joints of equal length, thickly clothed with long hairs, third joint 

 subovate, squamose ; antennge rather broadly bipectinated at the base and thence 

 setose to the tip in male ; legs long, femora pilose beneath, tibiae compactly clothed, 

 fore tibiae above with, two lateral rows of long stout spines, middle and hind tibisB 

 with similarly disposed but shorter spines in addition to the spurs beneath, tarsi 

 thickly spiued. {Tijpe, A. segetum.) 



AGROTIS ARISTIFERA (Plate 147, Fig. 5, <J ). 

 Agrotis aristifera, Gueaee, Nout. i. p. 266 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. x. p. 344. 



Male : forewing pale lilacine brownish-ochreous ; with transverse basal and 

 subbasal indistinct blackish duplex lines, a black-lined sagittate orbicular mark and 

 a large reniform mark, the intervening space black streaked ; a lengthened black 

 lanceolate mark below the cell ; a transverse submarginal series of blackish pale 

 bordered zigzag streaks traversed by a pale sinuous line ; a marginal row of black 

 dots : hindwing white. Female : forewing darker ; prominently marked as in male : 

 liindwing pale brownish along anterior and exterior borders, the veins brown. Body 

 brownish-ochreous ; abdomen whitish-cinereous ; palpi and legs with black bauds. 



Expanse lyV to 1-nr inch. 



AGROTIS PUNCTIPES. 



Affi-otis jninctipea, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 695 (1865). 



" Male and female. Whitish-cinereous, with a slight testaceous tinge : forewiugs 

 minutely speckled with black ; a brown straight discal line extending from the base 

 to beyond the middle, where there is a small brown mark ; lines brownish, undulating, 

 very slender, almost obsolete ; marginal points black ; two blackish dots on the 

 exterior part of the above line ; the interior one larger than the other and partly 

 reddish ; two black costal dots, of which the exterior one is larger beneath ; orbicular 

 and reniform marks obsolete : hindwings whitish, semi-hyaline, brownish along the 

 exterior border, which has black points beneath ; fringe whitish. Palpi short, 

 second joint marked with brown on the outer side, third conical, extremely minute, 

 not more than one-sixth of the length of the second ; spurs at the base, and knees 

 with black points. 



"Expanse 14 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in Mr. E. L. Layard's Collection, 



