408 NOCTUID^. 



yellow transverse lines between, bordered with brown in front and 

 curved forward at sides, and with two white dots before each. Food- 

 plants : low plants, especially Atriplicis. 4-5, 



699. Agrotis albipennis. 



Cosmia albipennis, Butl. lU. Het. B. M. vii. p. 58, pi. 127. f. 13 (1889) ; 

 Huipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 186. 



c^ , Head and thorax pale purplish pink, the scales tipped with 

 whitish ; palpi dark rufous except at tips ; tegulse edged with dark 

 brown ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen pale purplish pink. 

 Fore wingpale purplish pink ; the subbasal line strong, black, oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold where it is angled, ending at vein 1, a 

 dark streak from it in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which 

 is developed into an oblique black bar from costa, then fine, angled 

 inwards in cell, outwards on median nervure, inwards in submedian 

 fold, then very oblique to above middle of inner margin, where it is 

 angled ; claviform finely defined by brown above and at extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former large, oblique, 

 elliptical, open above, the latter placed on an olive-brown patch 

 from costa; an indistinct curved medial line from cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line black towards costa, slightly angled 

 inwards below costa, then outwards, then obliquely curved to vein 

 4, then incurved and siuuous ; the subterminal line brown, with an 

 olive -brown patch with pale points on it on its inner side at costa, 

 angled outwards slightly at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine 

 terminal line. Hind wing yellowish white ; a fine dark terminal 

 line ; the cilia tinged with pink towards apex : the underside with 

 the costal area tinged with red, a small dark discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



5 . Hind wing suffused with fuscous brown. 



Hah. W. CfliXA, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 J ; Kashmir, Kuijar, 

 1 c? , Narkunda, 1 $ {McArthur) ; Punjab, Dharmsiila {Hocking), 

 4 c? , 3 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



700. Agrotis repleta. (Plate LXX. fig. 10.) 



Agrotis rcpUta, Wlk. si. 7.36 (1857). 



Agrotis gpsilon, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 281 (part). 



J . Head and teguloe blackish mixed with red-brown ; tegulte 

 with black medial line ; thorax rufous ; mid and hind tibiae blackish 

 ringed with ochreous ; abdomen rufous dorsally suflused with fuscous. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused with reddish brown ; the basal area 

 with fine brown and ochreous streaks below costa and in cell ; the 

 subbasal line represented by ochreous strife from costa and cell ; the 

 antemedial line double, very highly dentate, acutely angled outwards 

 below costa and very strongly inwards on median nervure and vein 

 1 ; claviform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form small, defined by black and their centres defined by rufous, the 

 former round, a black fascia between them in cell ; a slight medial 

 shade from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, dentate. 



