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SECT. II. Antennae of males bipectinate, the branches very short. 



1626. Agrotis brevirami, n. sp. 



c? . Head and thorax reddish grey-brown. Fore wing reddish 

 grey -brown, with very indistinct double waved subbasal and ante- 

 medial lines ; a diffused medial line angled on median nervure ; 

 the orbicular and reniform small and very indistinct ; the lunulate 

 postmedial line and irregular sinuous submarginal line indistinct. 

 Abdomen and hind wing fuscous brown. 



Hub. Mussooree (Harford). Exp. 34 millim. Type in B. M. 



1627. Agrotis monticola, n. sp. 



c? . Grey. Fore wing with indistinct subbasal ante- and post- 

 medial double waved lines ; orbicular and reniform with slight dark 

 outlines; some pale specks on costa towards apex; an irregularly 

 lunulate pale submarginal line ; a marginal series of specks. Hind 

 wing fuscous ; underside paler, with cell-spot and indistinct post- 

 medial line. 



Hab. Lahoul, 12,000 feet. Exp. 38 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



SECT. III. (Peridroma). Antennae of male with fasciculated cilia. 



1628. Agrotis intracta, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 346; C. $ S. no. 1991. 



Fuscous brown ; the hind wing dark fuscous ; markings as in 

 seyetis. 



Hab. Dharrnsala ; Nepal. Exp. 46 millim. 



1629. Agrotis sikkima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 53 ; C. $ S. no. 2079. 



Smoky black ; head and thorax with some white scales. Fore 

 wing with the lines ill denned ; a white speck followed by a black 

 patch in interno-median interspace ; the orbicular and reniform 

 white ; the medial area irrorated with white scales ; three black 

 streaks on the subrnargiDal line. Hind wing whitish, suffused with 

 fuscous towards outer margin. 



One specimen has the collar white. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 36 millim. 



1630. Agrotis undulans, Moore, A. M. N. ff. (5) i, p. 233, # 2nd Yar- 



kand Mission, pi. 1, fig. 10 ; C. fy S. no. 2007. 



$ . Pale ochreous brown. Fore wing with traces of double 

 waved subbasal ante- and postmedial lines and single waved sub- 

 marginal line. Hind wing with the cilia white. 



Hab. Yarkand ; S. Afghanistan ; Karachi. Exp. 44 millim. 



1631. Agrotis plecta, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 851; Kirby, Em. Butt. Moths, 



pi. 36, fig. 4 a (larva). 

 Ochropleura vicaria, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 409. 



Ochropleura costalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 56 ; C. $ S. no. 2021. 

 Ochropleura ignota, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 411. 



