24 Mr. J. H. Leech on 



black discal spot and an interrupted black snbmarginal bund, a 

 small oval black spot obli(|uely placed near middle of the abdominal 

 margin. 



Expanse 30 milliin. 



One male specimen from How-kow, taken in July or 

 Aucrust. 



Hahitat. Western China. 



Allied to H. cora, Eversman, 



741. Ileliothis (?) straminea, sp. n. 



Primaries straw-yellow, with a conspicuous dark-coloured reniform 

 stigma ; there are some dark brownish-grey marks on the inner 

 margin, and indications of a submarginal line ; fringes pinkish. 

 Secondaries dark fuscous, fringes pinkish. Under surface pale buff, 

 venation browner ; primaries suffused with fuscous on the discal area ; 

 secondaries have two equidistant, wavy, pinkish, transverse lines. 



Expanse 40 millim. 



One male specimen from How-kow, taken in July. 



Halitat. Western China. 



Genus Aguotir. 



Oclis. ; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, ii, p. 180 



(1894). 



742. Agrotis segdmn. 



Nodua segehun, Schiff., Wien. Verz., p. 252 (1776). 

 Mdua scgdis, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, v, p. 2539 (1788-93). 

 Agrotis scgdis, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, ii, p. 



181 (1894). 

 Agrotis in grata, Butl., Ami. and Ma;:,^ Nat. Hist., (5) i, p. 102 



(1878) : 111. Typ. Lep. Het., ii, p. 27, pi. xxix, fig. 9 



(1878). 



Prycr's series comprised specimens from Yokohama and 

 Gifu. I obtained the species at Nagasaki in May, at Sakata 

 in August, at Nikko in September, and at Oiwake in 

 October, Mr. Smith took some examples at Hakone in 

 August, and a native collector secured a female example 

 at Gensan in the same month. My collectors in China 

 met with the sjiecies at Chang-yang, Ta-chien-lu, and 

 Chia-kou-ho. 



Japanese male specimens are very variable, some 

 examples being fairly typical whilst in others the ground 

 colour of primaries is suffused with ashy grey and the dark 



