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defined bj- dark suffusion on inner side and the area beyond it 

 ochreous suffused with rufous, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; some pale points on costa towards apex and 

 a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the 

 cilia ochreous with a brown line through tliem ; the underside with 

 the costal area ochreous irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal 

 spot, sinuous postmedial line, and traces of subtermiual line. 



Hah. Hawaii {Blackhurn), 1 2 type, Olaa, 1 $ , Oahu,Mt. Waimea 

 {PerTcins), 1 5 . Eu'p. 44 millim. 



728. Agrotis selenias. (Plate LXXI. fig. 1.) 



Ayrotis selenias, Meyr. Faun. Hawaiiensis, i. p. 150 (1809). 



Head and thorax rufous or purplish red, mixed with some black and 

 white scales ; palpi with black patch on 2ud joint, frons with lateral 

 black bar, patagia with black streak above ; tarsi black with ochreous 

 rings ; abdomen gre)--brown, the ventral surface pinkish, the anal 

 tuft ochreous. Fore wing purplish red or purple irrorated with 

 black ; a double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to submediau 

 fold ; a double, waved, oblique antemedial line, angled outwards 

 below costa ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former round, the latter with yellowish- white 

 lunule on its outer edge ; an indistinct oblique waved line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and 

 oblique below vein 4 ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the 

 subterminal line pale, defined by obscure dentate blackish marks on 

 inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and exeurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown with an 

 ochreous tinge ; cilia whitish with a brown line at base ; the undei- 

 side whitish, the costal area tinged with purplish and irrorated with 

 black, a dark discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused 

 subferminal line. 



Hah. Hawaii, Mt. Waimea (PerHm), 1 c? , 3 $ , type, Kauai, 1 J . 

 1 2 . Evp. 46-50 millim. 



729. Agrotis chersotoides. (Plate LXXI. fig. 2.) 

 Apamea chersotoides, Biitl. A. M. N. H. (5) vii. p. 322 (18SI). 



6 . Head and thorax purplish red mixed with black and grey ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous grey, the anal tuft 

 and ventral surface fulvous ; a sublateral series of black points. 

 Fore wing purplish red slightly irrorated with black, the basal, 

 and costal area to postmedial line, with some whitish ; a double, 

 waved, black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, 

 waved, antemedial line ; claviform small, defined by black : orbicular 

 and reniform with brown centres and whitish annuli defined by 

 black, the former small, oblique, elliptical, the latter witli sonic 

 fuscous on its lower pai't, the cell before and bet ween them suit'iisod 

 with black; an oblicjue waved line from lower angle of cell to inner 



