428 NocTtriD^. 



Hah. W. China, Nitou, 1 $ , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 $ ; Dhaemsala 

 (Ilocl-inr/), 1 J , 1 § ; Tibet, Yatung {Uohson), 1 $ ; Sikhim {Lidder- 

 dale), 3 (S ,3 2 , type. £'a7p. 38-42 millim. 



733. Agrotis glottuloides. (Plate LXXI. fig. 5.) 

 Apamea gloituloides, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 120. 



Head and thorax fuscous black ; palpi whitish at tips ; antennae 

 whitish ; fore tibiae and tarsi whitish ; mid and hind tibiae with the 

 spurs ringed with white, the tarsi whitish ; abdomen fuscous, the 

 ventral surface grey irrorated with black. Fore wing fuscous black, 

 the inner area mostly grey to near termen, a streak of black and 

 grey scales in basal half of submedian fold ; an indistinct waved 

 dark antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform incompletely outlined 

 with white and black scales, the former elliptical, the latter some- 

 times with whitish spot ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, somewhat angled inwards in discal fold 

 and incurved below vein 4 ; a subterminal series of slight black and 

 white points. Hind wing nacreous white, the veins and terminal 

 area tinged with fuscous ; a fuscous liue at base of cilia ; the under- 

 side whiter, the costal area irrorated with black, a black discoidal 

 spot and postmedial series of points on the veins. 



Hah. Chili {Edmonds), 1 d , 1 5 , type. Exp. 40 millim. 



*734, Agrotis cyiiica. (Plate LXXI. fig. 6.) 

 Noctua cyiiica. Smith, J. N. Yoi-k Eut. Soc. vi. p. 101 (1898). 



Head and thorax red-broAvn, some of the hairs tipped with grey ; 

 palpi black, grey at tips ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft 

 ochreous, the ventral surface reddish. Fore wing broad, reddish 

 brown tinged with grey ; the lines double ; the subbasal line 

 minutely waved ; the antemedial line minutely waved, angled 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented by a black 

 point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres 

 and grey annuli slightly defined by fuscous, the former elliptical, 

 oblique ; no medial line ; postmedial line minutely waved, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the 

 costa dark with pale ])oints beyond it ; subterminal line pale, defined 

 on inner side by a dark patch on costal area, then by small spots, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle : a 

 terminal series of dark points ; cilia ochreous with fuscous tips. 

 Hind wing pale ochreous thickly irrorated with fuscous brown ; a 

 dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial liue ; cilia ochreous ; 

 the underside paler with the markings more distinct. 



Hah. U.S.A., New York, Albany. Exp. 3(3 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. 



