426 NOCTUID^. 



margin and black point on costa ; the postraedial line minutely 

 dentate, with double black striae at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points on costa 

 towards apex; the subterminal line represented by a series of 

 ochreous points with small obscure dentate blackish marks before 

 them, the area beyond them darker except at apex, which is pale ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 the cilia ochreous, with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 whitish, the costal and terminal areas tinged with ochreous and 

 irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and waved postmedial line. 



5 . Thorax and fore wing rather browner. 



Hah. Haw'aii {BJael-bu/'ii}, 1 c? , 1 $ , type. £^.17). 34-3(5 millim. 



730. Agrotis coniotis, n. n. (Plate LXXI. tig. 3.) 

 Ayrotis ckersotoides, Meyr. Faun. Hawaiiensis, i. p. 1')! (nee Eutl.). 



Head and thorax blackish, the dorsal crests grey ; tarsi black 

 with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey- 

 brown, irrorated- and striated with fuscous, the costal area to 

 subterminal line, the cell and area just below it to antemedial 

 line suffused wnth black ; a double, waved, subdorsal black line 

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

 line ; clavifbrm small, obscurely detiued by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform black, with slight greyish annuli defined by black-, the 

 former nearly round ; a slight obli(iue waved line from low^er angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line more or less indistinct, 

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

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then inciirved ; some pale points on costa 

 towards apex ; the subterminal line pale, defined by a dark patch 

 on inner side at costa, a little fuscous at middle and the area beyond 

 it darker except at apex which is pale, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of minute black lunules. 

 Hind wing pale brownish, the veins, costal and terminal areas 

 darker ; cilia pale, with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line with dark stria; on the veins. 



Ab. 1. Head and thorax browner; fore wing without the black 

 suffusion on costal area, the orbicular whitish. 



Ab. 2. Head and thorax red-brown ; fore wing red-brown tinged 

 with fuscous on costal area. 



Hah. Hawaii, Kona (Perkins), 1 cJ , 1 $ , type, Kauai, Mt. "Waimea 

 {Perlins}, 3 $ . AV^j. 36-40 millim. 



731. Agrotis rubicilia. 



GraphipJtora ruhicilia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. .55 ; Hinpsn. Moths lud. 



ii. p. 185. 

 Grapldphora nigrodgna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 3.52, pi. 38. f. 4. 



Head and thorax olive-yellow and rufous to bright rufous ; palpi 

 except at tips and hair of pectus purplish red; tibiae and tarsi 



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