432 NOCTUID^. 



tinged with pink ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 purplish brown and with traces of a postmedial line. 



Hah. W. TuEKESTAN, Issyk-kul, 1 ,5 ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



741. Agrotis eugramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXI. fig. 11.) 



5 . Head and thorax dark brown, the scales and hair tipped 

 with grey ; abdomen ochreous brown mixed with grey. Fore wing 

 yellowish brown tinged with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented 

 by black spots below costa and cell ; the antemedial line erect, 

 double, slightly waved, the outer strong and somewhat diffused : 

 claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular round, defined by 

 black ; reniform blackish and with black outline and shade from it 

 to inner margin ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, double, the 

 outer line faint, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; the subterminal line pale, interrupted, with irregular 

 series of dentate black marks on its inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing pale tinged with brown ; a fine brown terminal line : 

 cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside with 

 diffused curved postmedial line showing through to upperside. 



The spines on fore tibiae very stout at extremity and on outer 

 side. 



Hah. W. China, Ta-chien-lu, 1 6 type. Leech Coll. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



742. Agrotis cervina. 



Mythimna cervina, Moore, P. Z. S. 1S(>7, p. 47, pi. 0. f. 18 ; Hrnpsii. Mollis 

 lud. ii. p. 186. 



S . Head and thorax purplish grey ; palpi bright rufous except 

 at tips ; tegulse slightly edged with rufous and with a few rufous 

 scales ; pectus with the hair rufous : abdomen brownish ochreous, 

 the ventral surface purplish pink. Fore wing purple-grey rather 

 sparsely irrorated with rufous ; the costal half of medial area rufous, 

 shading off to irroration on inner half ; the subbasal line rufous, 

 rather ill-defined, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; the 

 antemedial line double, excurved from costa to median nervure, 

 then incurved and bent outwards to inner margin ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by rufous, the former oblique, elliptical, with its 

 centre slightly defined by rufous, the latter with fuscous centre ; the 

 postmedial line double, straight from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 the subterminal line rufous, somewhat punctiform, slightly angled 

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

 rufous points ; cilia rufous. Hind wing fuscous brown with an 

 ochreous tinge ; the cilia pinkish ; the underside paler and tinged 

 with purplish pink, a slight sinuous postmedial line. 

 Hah. SiKHiM {Russell), 1 J type. Exp. 46 millim. 



