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762. Ayrotis quadrisigna. 



Agrotis quadrisigna, Moore, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 



p. 350. 

 Chersotis quadrisigna, Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, 



p. 489. 

 Euplexia niveiplaga, Hainpson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, ii, 

 p. 208 (1894). 

 One specimen received from Mr. Manley of Yokohama. 

 Distribution. North-Wesi Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Nil- 

 GiRis {Hainpson) ; KuLU ; Japan. 



703. Agrotis undosa. 



Agrotis undosa, Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond,, 1889, p. 501, 

 pi. 1, fig. 3. 



I obtained one specimen at Nikko in September, and 

 one at Oiwake in the same month ; there was an example, 

 probably from Yokohama, in Pryer's collection. 



JIahitat. Japan. 



764. Agrotis costalis. 



Penicillaria costalis, Butl, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) 

 iv, p. 367 (1879) ; Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, 

 p. 536. 

 One specimen, without data, in Pryer's collection. The 

 type was from Yokohama. 

 Habitat. Japan. 



765, Agrotis postfiava, sp. n. 



Head and palpi whitish, the latter marked with black on the 

 sides ; thora.x; yellowish-white ; abdomen whity-brown, tufts and 

 terniinal segments darker. 



Primaries dark fuscous-brown, basal third conspicuously paler ; 

 a small tuft of black and white hairs at the base of the wing ; ante- 

 medial line black, inwardly edged with whitish, dentate above inner 

 margin ; postmedial line whitish, edged inwardly with black, most 

 distinctly towards the inner margin, curved beyond cell thence 

 slightly oblique to inner margin ; sul)marginal line whitish, wavy, 

 with some black points and arrow-heads about the middle ; reniform 

 and orbicuhir stigmata outlined in white, the submedian nervure 

 white below them ; claviforni outlined in black ; the space between 

 the stigmata and before the orbicular is blackish, the costa above the 



