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261. Micragrotis exusta, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 1.) 



(^ . Head and thorax fuscous, the tips of scales grey, the vertex 

 of head and base of tegula; ochreous or rufous ; abdomen brownish 

 ochreous, the ventral surface fuscous. Fore wing greyish fuscous ; 

 the basal area tinged with rufous ; the subbasal line represented by 

 slight stria3 from costa and cell ; an indistinct interrupted waved 

 black autemedial line : claviform small, slightly defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and defined by black, 

 the former round ; the postmedial line indistinct dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 

 below vein 4, the area beyond it ochreous with dark streaks on the 

 veins and obscure rufous streaks in the interspaces ; some pale 

 points on costa towards apex ; indistinct dark dentate marks on 

 termen above middle and tornus ; a terminal series of minute black 

 lunulcs ; the cilia chequered ochreous and fuscous. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, the costal area tinged with fuscous ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight diseoidal point 

 and postmedial series of strife on the veins. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 3 d" type. Exj}- 

 34 millim. 



262. Micragrotis interstriata. (Plate LX. fig. 3.) 



Agrotis interstriata, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 2fi4 (1902). 



Head and thorax black, with some whitish round base of antennae ; 

 tarsi with whitish rings ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface 

 blackish. Fore wing fuscous black, suftiised with blue-grey except 

 costal area and cell to beyond postmedial line ; the terminal area 

 browner, with black streaks on the veins and brown streaks in the 

 interspaces ; the autemedial line fine, double, angled slightly 

 inwards below costa and on subcostal nervure, strongly on median 

 nervure, very strongly on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform small, 

 defined by black, the former round, whitish, the latter with fuscous 

 centre ; an oblique brown line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line close to reniform, dentate and produced 

 to points on the veins, bent outwards below^ costa, and incurved 

 below vein 4 ; some pale points on costa towards apex; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia chequered pale and black. Hind wing- 

 white, the costal area tinged with fuscous, the cilia with ochreous ; 

 the underside with slight diseoidal point. 



Hah. Masuonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 tS ; Xatal, "Weenen, 

 1 J type, Karkloof (Marshall), 3d', 1 $ : Cape Colony, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barren), 1 S - Erp. 30 millim. 



263. Micragrotis strigibasis. (Plate LX. fig. 4.) 

 Jf/rutis stri(jihads, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 264 (1902). 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous ; tegula) with 

 blackish medial line ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous 

 suffused with rufous ; the subbasal line represented by a striga from 



