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and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line oehreous, 

 delined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks and elongate 

 blackish patch on costal area, with some oehreous points on costa, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the costal and 

 inner areas tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area 

 oehreous -white irrorated with brown, 



5 . Fore wing with the area below the cell and postmedial area 

 suti'used with purplish fuscous. 



llah. Mexico {Salle), 1 $ type, Jalapa (Ti-njUlo), 2 c?, 1 $, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll.; Brazil, Amazons, Rio Piirus (T/r«7), 1 c? , 

 Organ Mts. ( Wagner), 1 S - Exp. 56 millim. 



701. Agrotis crinigera. (Plate LXX. fig. 17.) 

 Spceloiis crinigera, Butl. A. M. N . H. (5) rii. p. 321 (1881). 



Dull reddish brown; tarsi with ])ale rings; abdomen of male 

 with very large protrusible genital tut'ts. Fore wing with a greyish 

 tiuge and black irroration or suffusion ; a double, waved, subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line 

 very strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 faintly defined by blackish above ; orbicular and reniform with 

 blackish centres and defined by black, the former round, a diffused 

 waved medial line passing betAveen them ; the postmedial line 

 deutate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; an indistinct greyish sub- 

 terminal line defined by fuscous suff'usion on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing yellowish brown ; the cilia white at tips ; 

 the underside whitish with slight discoidal lunule and waved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Hawaii, Honolulu (Blacl-huru), 3 c? , 4 $ , type, Oahu 

 (PerHns), 1 2- Exy. 46-5b millim. 



702. Agrotis compta. (Plate LXX. fig. 18.) 



Gmphiphora compta, Wlk. x. 404 (1856). 

 Tceniocuinjjci inimunis, Wlk. x. 4oU (1853). 

 Graphiphora quadrata, Wlk. xi. 745 (1857). 

 Cerasfis innocua, Wlk. xv. 1710 (1858). 

 Apaniea rcciproca, Wlk. sxxii. 672 (1865). 

 Oi-thosia hreviiiscula, Wlk. xxxiii. 71<) (1865). 

 Orthosia conimunicata, Wlk. xxxiii. 7l<) (1865). 

 Agrotis acetiiia, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. lO'J. t'. 6 (1874). 



Head and thorax oehreous or reddish brown ; palpi deep red- 

 brown, pale at tips ; sides of frons black ; legs deep red-brown ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing oehreous brown irrorated with 

 red-brown : an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; traces of a dentate antemedial line ; cliviform 

 represented by a black point ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 brown, the former very indistinct, round, the latter with pale 



