AGROTIS. 451 



from the reniform above and below vein 5 to terincn ; a postraeclial 

 series of black points on the veins bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a dark patch on termen above 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia chequered ochreous 

 and black. Hind wing ochreous white, with interrupted brown 

 terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a small discoidal point and postmedial series on the veins. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 c? ; Transvaal, 

 Pretoria, type f cJ transjecta in Coll. Distant. Madagascar, Betsileo 

 (Coivan), i d' . Kvj). 24-28 millim. 



773. Agrotis dispalata. (Plate LXXI. fig. 29.) 



Axylia dispalata, Swiiih. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1891, p. 145 ; Hmpsn. Moths 

 ind. ii. p. 187. 



Head and tegulaj ochreous ; thorax fuscous ; tibiae and isarsi 

 blackish with pale rings ; abdomen greyish tinged with fuscous. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated 

 with brown; the costal area suffused with black; the subbasal line 

 represented by double black striae from costa ; slight brown streaks 

 in, above, and below cell before the antemedial line, which is double, 

 dentate, strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and above 

 inner margin and iawards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform very 

 small, with dark centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former 

 round, the cell before and between them black ; an o1>lique shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line 

 consisting of a treble series of points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a dentate dark mark 

 from termen above middle to the postmedial line, and a slight mark 

 above tornus ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area slightlj' irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hall. Bombay, Poena (SivinJioe), 1 c? , 1 ? , type, Kbandalla 

 (Sivinhoe), 1 $ ; Madras, Belgaum ( Watson'), 2 cS . Exp. 28-30 

 millim. 



774. Agrotis sicca. (Phite LXXI. fig. 30.) 



Axylia sicca, Guen. Noct. i. p. 135 (1852). 



Axylia rcnalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 341 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 187. 



Head ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi, except at tips, and a 

 bar across frons fuscous ; teguhe ochreous at base, with rufous 

 medial band and dark tips ; patagia rufous ; thorax fuscous ; pectus, 

 logs, and abdomen pale fuscous, the last with pale ventral stripe. 

 Fore wing ochreous ; the costal area purplish fuscous ; pale streaks 

 on base of subcostal and median nervurcs and two in cell; the 

 subbasal line represented by double striae from costa and cell ; the 

 anteracdiiil line indistinct, double, waved, very strongly angled 

 inwards un vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and 



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