collected in Southern Afghanistan. 349 



spots of the same colour all over the whig ; outer border brown, 

 with the line running into the veins, and with white dots on the 

 under side ; fringe gi'ey, very deep ; hind wing with the basal half 

 silver-grey, gradually darkening into the darker brownish colour 

 on the outer half ; fringe white ; the whole surface of both wings 

 with a bright glittering sheen on it. Expanse of wings, l^j in. 



Chaman, May. 



18. Agrotis sufusa. 



Noctiia siiffiLsa, Hiibn., Eur. Scbmett., Noct., fig. 134. 

 Quetta, September. 



19. Agrotis segetum. 



Noctua seqetum, Wien. Verz., p. 81, pi. 1 a, figs. 3 a, 

 1 b, fig. 3 b. 



Quetta, September ; Dubrai, October. 



20. Agrotis aversa. 



Agrotis aversa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., x., 

 p. 345. 



Kandabar, April. 



21. Agrotis cespitis, n. s. (PL IX., fig. 4). 

 Very pale fawn-colour ; thorax with a slender brown band in front ; 

 abdomen whitish ; tarsi with black bands ; fore wings with pale 

 brown marks on the costa, mostly in paks, a dark brown sinuous 

 marginal line ; orbicular spot long, large, and club-shaped, with 

 brown border ; claviform long and narrow ; reniform large, with 

 incomplete brown borders ; an interior and exterior brown irregular 

 undulating line ; fringe pale cinereous, with a brownish line 

 running through the centre of it ; hind wings white, tinted with 

 fawn-colour towards the costa. Expanse of wings, l^L — 1-^ in. 



Quetta, August and September. 



22. Agrotis cotiforniis, n. s. (PI. IX., fig. 5). 



Very pale fawn-colour ; last joint of the palpi white, the 



remainder brown ; abdomen fawn-colour, rather paler than the 



thorax ; fore wings uniform pale fawn-colour, with a reddish tinge ; 



orbicular and reniform spots large, round, very famt, the former 



