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761 a. Agrotis bisignata, sp, n. 



? . Head and thorax rufous ; palpi except at tips and 

 sides of frons blackish ; tegulse black at base; mid and hind 

 legs banded with black, the fore tarsi black at tips ; abdo- 

 men grey dorsally tinged with fuscous and with lateral and 

 subventral series of black spots. Fore wing rufous slightly 

 irrorated with brown, the costal area whitish to beyond 

 middle ; an irregular black streak below base of cell ; sub- 

 basal black points on costa and in cell ; antemedial line 

 double, with black points on costa and defined by black on 

 inner side from subcostal nervvire to submedian fold, waved, 

 excurved above inner margin ; claviform represented by a 

 black point at its extremity; orbicular with whitish annulus 

 defined at sides by black, rouud, the reniform with whitish 

 annulus and black point on its outer edge, a quadrate black 

 patch between them with blackish mark above it on costa ; 

 postmedial line double, dark with small black spots at costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, tlieu dentate, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; a black patch on costa before the very in- 

 distinct pale somewhat dentate subterminal line, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine pale terminal line with 

 series of slight black points on it. Hind wing pale brown, 

 the cilia whitish tinged with rufous ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with rufous and striated with fuscous, a 

 small blackish discoidal spot, postmedial line oblique and 

 black towards costa, then faint and excurved at middle, and 

 terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Ilesha {Humphrey), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 40 mm. 



77Q a. Agrotis mesosema, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with fuscous and 

 whitish ; palpi except at tips and sides of frons blackish ; 

 tegulie mostly black with curved rufous medial marks ; 

 metathorax with white patch ; pectus whitish ; tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen pale brown, the 

 base whitish, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing grey-brown Avith darker irroration, the 

 basal half of costal area and antemedial area with rufous 

 marks ; a waved black subbasalline from costa to submedian 

 fold defined on outer side by rufous ; a diffused blackish 

 streak below base of cell j antemedial line indistinct, oblique, 

 waved, defined on inner side by rufous; claviform repre- 

 sented by a short black streak ; orbicular and reniform with 

 some rufous suffusion in centres, the former defined by 



