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with black margin; reniform unusually large, metallic- 
silver, enclosing a brownish C-shaped ochreous marking; a 
second (but small and oblique) metallic-silver spot crosses 
the interno-median interspace close to the inner line of 
the central belt upon the basal area; disc slightly 
clouded with rose-colour ; external border limited inter- 
nally by an irregularly zigzag whitish line; secondaries 
cupreous-brown, sericeous ; thorax testaceous, the front 
of head, tegule, and posterior margin of metathorax 
reddish ; abdomen pale shining grey-brown, with whitish 
posterior margins to the segments; under surface 
shining creamy whitish, the primaries slightly dusky 
in the centre, and with the costal border washed with 
reddish orange, but indistinctly; expanse of wings, 
1 inch. 
Tokei (Lenton). 
NOCTUIDA. 
55. Agrotis tokionis, n. 8. 
Allied to A. saucia, with the same broad primaries, but 
in the general colour and pattern of these wings it more 
nearly resembles A. suffusa; primaries sandy brown ; 
the discoidal cell, including the ordinary spots, slaty 
erey; orbicular spot diamond-shaped, imperfectly de- 
fined by a black margin; reniform angulated, with a 
black margin, which is wide below the angulation, but 
narrow above it; submedian spot fusiform, slaty grey, 
with black margin; the ordinary double zigzag lines all 
ill-defined ; costal border dark brown, interrupted by the 
subbasal line, the inner line of the central belt, and a 
transverse dash above the reniform spot; outer border 
irregularly dark brown, limited internally by a series of 
lunate spots slightly paler than the ground-colour ; a 
marginal series of black dots; fringe testaceous, with 
dusky outer edge ; secondaries bronzy brown, sericeous, 
with a rather broad darker external border; a blackish 
marginal line; fringe as in primaries; thorax sandy 
brown, slightly tinted with pink; collar crossed in the 
centre by a bisinuated black line, behind which it is 
orey ; tegule sparsely speckled with black scales ; abdo- 
men whity brown; primaries below fuliginous-brown, 
sericeous, with testaceous fringe; secondaries sericeous 
whity brown, with the costal border towards apex and 
the external border fuliginous-brown, diffused; fringe 
