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black ; tegulae with broad ill-defined luteous band ; patagia with 

 blackish scales near edges. Fore wing pale yellowish grey irrorated 

 with black, a deeper ashen shade on inner margin and on terminal 

 area ; subbasal line double, filled in with paler colour, angled on 

 median nervure ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, exeurved 

 in interspaces ; claviform rather short and broad, indistinctly defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform large, with slight grey annuli in- 

 distinctly defined by black, the reniform with rather darker centre ; 

 a diffused medial shade ; post medial line double at costa and inner 

 margin, defined by whitish on outer side, crenulate, incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line white, angled outward at vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; a 

 fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white tinged with 

 fuscous, the veins and terminal area darker especially in female ; 

 cilia white with a dark line through them ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and intercepted post- 

 medial line. 



Uah. U.S.A., Colorado. Exp. 32 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me ; figured from a drawdng from type in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



1161, Scotogramma stigmosa. 



Mamestra stigmosa, Christ. Eom. Mem. iii. p. 70, pi. 3. f. 12 (1887); 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 158. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with pale brown ; 

 tibire and tarsi banded with black. Pore wing white irrorated 

 with brown, the costa darker : the subbasal line interrupted, waved 

 from costa to submedian fold, the antemedial line rather iU-defined 

 and irregular, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin, the claviform represented by some black scales on its outer 

 edge ; orbicular and reniform brown incompletely defined by black ; 

 the former round, the latter rather constricted at middle ; traces 

 of a medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial line somewhat dentate and produced to black and white 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, and incurved below 

 vein 4, the area beyond it rather darker ; the subterminal line 

 represented by a series of small whitish marks, defined on inner 

 side by a dark patch on costa and two slight dentate marks at 

 middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly dentate at veins 4, 

 3 ; a terminal series of small dark lunules ; cilia chequered brown 

 and white. Hind wing white ; the veins irrorated with brown ; a 

 difi'used brown subterminal band ; the underside with the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule. 



Hah. S. Russia, Sarepta, 1 J ; W. Tcekestan, Turcomania, 

 Ferghana, Issyk-kul; E. Tukkestan, Kashgar. Exp. ^2 milWva. 



1162. Scotogramma agrotiformis. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 6.) 



Hadena agrotiformis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 508 (1896). 

 S . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with white ; abdomen 



