424 NOCTUID^. 



B. Fore wing with the subterminal line not angled inwards 

 in discal fold. 



a. Fore wing with the subterminal line represented by a 



series of small black spots arthrolita, 



b. Fore wing with the subterminal line pale. 



a^. Fore wing with series of small black or red-brown 



spots beyond subterminal line revicta. 



b^. Fore wing with more or less prominent small den- 

 tate black or brown marks before subterminal line. 

 a'. Fore wing with small dentate black mark before 



subterminal line in subiiiedian interspace garmani. 



i^. Fore wing without small dentate black mark before 



subterminal line in submedian interspace incerta. 



c'. Fore wing witiiout small dentate marks before sub- 

 terminal line. 

 a^. Fore wing with the subterminal line defined by 

 brown on inner side. 

 a^. Hind wing wholly suffused with brown. 



a^. Fore wing with the subterminal line hardly 

 excurved at middle. 

 «'. Fore wing with slight dark irroration. 

 a". Fore wing with the ground-colour blue- 

 grey opima. 



b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour 



rufous paromcea. 



b^. Fore wing with prominent dark striation. . pacijica. 

 b*. Fore wing with the subterminal line distinctly 

 excurved at middle. 

 «'. Fore wing with the postraedial line cori- 



tinuous alurina. 



6*. Fore wing with the postmedial line reduced 



to a series of points alia. 



6^. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused 



with fuscous gracilis. 



b"^. Fore wing with the subterminal line defined by 



brown on outer side cinnamomea. 



1757. Monima odiosa. 



Agrotis odiosa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 162 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 

 iii. p. 14, pi. 44. f. 8. 



Head and thorax bright red-brown, sometimes with a purplish 

 tinge ; palpi black at sides ; abdomen ochreous, irrorated with 

 brown and tinged with red. Fore wing bright chestnut to purplish 

 brown sparsely irrorated with white, traces of a w^aved whitish 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct oblique 

 waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform large, rather 

 darker than ground-colour and with fine whitish annuli, the former 

 round ; an indistinct medial shade oblique from costa to median 

 ncrvure, then incurved ; postmedial line indistinct and slightly 

 defined by grey on outer side, dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved at discal 

 and submedian folds, defined by grey on outer side, strongly at the 

 folds ; termen crenulate. Hind wing yellowish white tinged with 

 brown to fuscous brown ; the cilia rufous ; the underside pale red 



