26 Mr. J. H. Leech on 



Agrotis ypsilon, Rott. ; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, 

 ii, p. 182 (1894). 



I have specimens from Yokohama, Tokio, Gensan, and 

 most of the locahties that my collectors visited in Central 

 and Western China. 



Distribution. Europe. — Amurland ; Japan ; Corea ; 

 Central and Western China ; India. — America. 



746. Agrotis plana, sp. n. 



Head Ijrownish mixed with grey ; thorax blackish, the collar edged 

 with grey ; abdomen fuscons-brown ; antenna; pectinated. Primaries 

 dark leaden-grey with a sHght brownish suffusion ; antemedial line 

 black, rather oblique to the middle where it is angled, thence wavy 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish, wavy, excurved beyond 

 the cell and slightly angled above the inner margin ; reniform and 

 orbicular stigmata dark fuscous outlined in brown and black ; 

 marginal line black ; apical third of costa dotted with whitish. 

 Secondaries pale, suffused with fuscous. Under surface of primaries 

 dark fuscous-grey with blackish discal dot and transverse line beyond, 

 the latter not always distinct : secondaries pale fuscous becoming 

 darker on costal area ; discal dot and transverse line dusky. 



Expanse 38 millini. 



Seven male specimens from Pu-tsu-fong, three from 

 Omei-shan, and two from Ni-tou. June and July. 

 Hahitat. Western China, 



747. Agrotis squalida. 



Simlotis squalida, Boisd., Ind. Meth., 107, 800 (1829). 

 Agrotis lycarum, Herr.-Schiiff., Schmett., ii, pi. xxii, figs. 



122-124. 

 Agrotis squalida, Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1889, p. 

 501. 

 I obtained a specimen at Hakodate in August, and there 

 were three examples in Pryer's collection. 

 Distribution. Ural ; Amurland ; Yesso. 



748. Agrotis cxolcta, sp. n. 

 Head and thorax dark brown, patagia darker ; abdomen cinnamon- 

 brown ; antennae fasciculate. Primaries cinnamon-brown, darker on 

 outer marginal area ; there is a dark brown quadrate patch, enclosing 

 and obscuring the stigmata, on the middle of the costal area, and a 

 dot of the same colour below ; suhmarginal line pale. Secondaries 



