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NOCTUID^. 



it ; claviform small, purplish black defined by black ; orbicular aua 

 reuiform defined by black and a few ochreous scales, the former 

 rounded ; an indistinct medial line from cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line double, minutely waved, slightly angled outwards 

 below costa and incurved at discal fold, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4, a series of darlc points on the veins beyond it ; the subter- 

 minal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal punetiform black line and greyish line at base 

 of cilia. Hind wing grey, suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia^ 

 ochreous white, brownish at base ; the underside grey, irrorated 

 with fuscous, the costal and terminal areas suff'used with fuscous, a 

 slight discoidal lunule and postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 S , Amdo. Exp. 32 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate ; fore wing rather narrow. 



IIU'J. Eueretagrotis agathina. 



Agroiis agathina, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 359, pi. 122. f. 2 (1827); Herr.- 

 Schiiff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pi. i. f. 2 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138. 



Agroiis lidiu, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 63 (1829) ; id. Icones, pi. 77. f. 1, nee 

 Cram. 



Graphiphora alhiviacula, Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., Haust. ii. p. 137, pi. 19. f. 3 

 (1829). 



Li/taa Icucographa, Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 199 (1829). 



Agroiis scoparue, Mill. Ic. ii. p. 151, pi. (57. £f. 7-10 (1864). 



Agroiis hebridicola, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138 (1901). 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; tegulae with black line near base 

 and whitish tips : tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous 

 brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing bright 

 rufous ; the veins slightly streaked with fuscous ; the costal area 

 whitish towards base ; a black streak in base of submedian fold ; 

 the subbasal line represented by an oblique whitish striga from 



Fig. 117. — Eueretagrotis agathina, (^ . {. 



costa ; the antemedial line angled outwards below costa, in sub- 

 median fold, and more strongly above inner margin and inwards on 

 median nervure and vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black and with rufous 

 centres, the former small, oblique or rounded, the cell before and 

 between them with black fascia sometimes continued to postmedial 

 line ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to greyish points on 

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

 incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, defined by dentate black marks on inner side 



