TRIPH^NA. 



635 



the area be^-ond it being purplish grey irrorated with brown, 

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

 terminal series of small dentate black spots. Hind wing pale 

 suffused with brown, especially towards termen, the cilia pale with 

 a brown line near base; the underside pale irrorated with brown, 

 the costal area suffused with purple-red, a dark discoidal point and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, type t S in Coll. Schaus. E.cji>. 40 

 millim. 



1093. Triphsena midosa. 

 Agrotis undom, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 501, pi. 1. f. 3. 



Head and thorax brown, more or less strongly suffused with grey 

 and mixed ^^■ith black, especially on head and tegula? ; abdomen 

 brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen irrorated with 

 black, the tarsi ringed ^^•ith white. Fore wing grey-brown, suffused 

 iu parts with dark brown ; a double subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a double antemedial line slightly angled inwards 

 in submedian fold and on vein 1 ; the medial area suffused with 

 black from costa to median nervure, the inner area with some 

 waved lines ; claviform blackish and defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by black, the former round ; the postmedial 

 line double, minutely Avaved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, and Avith a series of points on the veins 

 beyond it ; the subtermiual line whitish, defined by fuscous suffusion 

 before it and a black patch at costa, minutely dentate, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal waved 

 black line. Hind wing fuscotts brown, blacker towards termen ; 

 the cilia pale yellowish ; the underside greyish, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial 

 line, the terminal area suffused with black. 



Hah. Japan- {Prijer), 1 S type, Oiwake {Leccli), 1 $ , Nikko 

 {Leech), 1 2 . Ex]). 40 millim. 



1094. Triphsena mirabilis. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 8.) 



Agrotis mirah'dis, Grote, ]\". Am. Eut. i. p. 39 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 54. 



<S . Head and thorax black mixed with grey, the latter with 

 flesh-pink dorsal fascia ; shoulders with white points at origin of 

 fore wing ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscotis brown 

 irrorated with grey. Fore wing black thickl}' irrorated with pale 

 grey ; the subbasal line represented by some black scales below the 

 cell ; the antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved, and acutely 

 angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 yellowish white, the former small, the latter moderate ; a black 

 streak in the cell from the antemedial line to the reniform ; the 

 postmedial line very indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa 

 and incurved below vein 4 ; an indistinct sinuous subtermiual line, 

 with diffused black patch on its inner side at costa, on which are 

 some pale points ; the terminal area somewhat greyer ; a terminal 



