
Bulletin 
of the 
Liverpool Museums 
UNDER THE CITY COUNCIL. 
Edited by H. O. Forbes, LL.D., Director of Museums. 
“ae 
Vou. II. SEPTEMBER, 1899. No. 

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The Expedition to Sokotra. 
Since the issue of the first number of this volume, several of the specialists 
engaged on the collections made in the islands of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri 
by the combined expedition of the British and Liverpool Museums, have com- 
pleted the examination of the groups kindly undertaken by them. Short 
diagnoses of the new species are herewith given. 
VI. Descriptions of One New Genus and 
Fourteen New Species of Moths, 
By Str Grorcre F. Hampson, BART. 
Noctuide. 
Caradrinine. 
(1) Agrotis brachypecten. 
¢. Antenne bipectinate, the branches very short with fasciculate cilia. 
Reddish brown, mixed with grey; palpi fuscous at sides; tegule with 
blackish lines ; patagia with blackish streak ; abdomen paler, dorsally tinged 
with fuscous towards base. Fore-wing with sub-basal and antemedial greyish 
lines defined by fuscous, the former short, waved, the latter waved, produced 
to a rather long angle above inner margin and with the short, blackish, clavi- 
form stigma on its outer edge ; the orbicular greyish defined by fuscous, and 
either circular or rather elongate and pointed at the ends; the reniform 
large, with fuscous centre and outline, or entirely suffused with fuscous 
and with fuscous suffusion above it on costa ; the postmedial line excurved 
from below costa to vein 2 and produced to short black streaks on the veins ; 
some fuscous suffusion on terminal area ; a greyish subterminal line expand- 
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