454 NOCTUID^. 



short fascia on terminal part of vein 6 ; postmedial line very indis- 

 tinct, bent outwards below costa, then as an oblique series of points 

 on the veins; the subterminal line represented by some obscure 

 ochreous-brown spots on inner half; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing ochreous, the costal area tinged with brown ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal point and postmedial series on the veins. 



llab. Transvaal, Pretoria (Distant), 1 c? type f in Coll. Distant. 

 Krj). 32 millim. 



*778. Agrotis talda. 



Ochropleura talda, Scbaus, Lep. Sierra Leone, p. 33, pi. iii. f. 1 (1893). 



Head and thorax reddish and dark brown ; abdomen brownish 

 grey. Fore wing reddish brown tinged with grey and irrorated 

 with fuscous ; faint traces of the subbasal and antemedial lines ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, very distinct, with black patch 

 between them in cell, and black streak from the reniform to 

 subterminal line ; postmedial line very indistinct, bent outAvards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; traces of a pale 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 defined on inner side by a dark patch at costa ; a terminal series 

 of dark points. Hind wing of male white, the cilia fuscous at 

 apex ; of female the whole wing suffused with fuscous ; the under- 

 side with dark discoidal lunule and traces of curved, waved, post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Sierra Leone; Cambeoons (SJostedt), in Mus. Stockholm. 

 Eay. 24-25 millim. 



779. Agrotis cinctithorax. (Plate LXXII. fig. 1.) 

 Hadcna cinctithorax, Wlk. xi. 591 (1857). 



S . Head and thorax rufous, the latter with broad blackish band 

 behind the tegulse ; hind tibiae and tarsi blackish banded with white ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with ochreous. Fore wing pale rufous, 

 slightly irrorated with black; the basal and costal areas more 

 ochreous ; the subbasal line represented by double striae from costa 

 and cell, the antemedial line by a double series of points on costa, 

 veins, and inner margin ; orbicular a small elongate black spot ; 

 reniform greyish, M'ith a black streak across it ; the postmedial line 

 represented by a series of black points, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line only defined 

 by blackish patches on its inner side at costa and middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia chequered rufous and black. Hind 

 wing yellowish white, with terminal series of slight dark points ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a dis- 

 coidal point and curved postmedial series on the veins. 



Hah. Capk Colony {Sir A. Sriiith), 1 S type. Exp. 34 millim. 



