AGROTIS. 189 



concolorous or with a whitish fascia from the base to postmedial 

 line; orbicular grey-brown and forming a complete circle, the cell 

 on each side of it black. Hind wing darker fuscous. 



The form renalis has the double antemedial lines of the fore 

 wing with two sinuations, instead of oblique and minutely dentate ; 

 the hind wing darker. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 50-58 millim. 



1649. Agrotis junctura, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 3-51 ; C. & S. 



no. 1992. 



c? . Differs from ditrapezium in the subbasal and antemedial lines 

 of fore wing being inwardly oblique; the orbicular oval and 

 oblique. 



Hal). Dalhousie. Exp. 42 millim. 



1650. Agrotis flammatra, Fair. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 155; C. 8c S. 



no. 2024. 

 Agrotis basiclavis, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 346. 



Differs from c-nigrum in being pale brown ; the collar brown 

 with a deep black triangular mark. Tore wing with a broad pale 

 costal fascia from the base to postmedial line ; no subbasal line 

 but a black streak from the base below median nervure ; orbicular 

 pale, rounded, and joined to the costal fascia ; reniform pale ; the 

 area in the cell outlining the stigmata varying from brown to dark 

 fuscous ; claviform almost obsolete ; a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown. 



Hob. Europe ; N.W. Himalayas ; Punjab ; Sikhirn. 

 56 millim. 



1657. Agrotis triangularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 55; C. $ S. 

 no. 2027. 



Differs from flammatra in being dark purplish red-brown ; the 

 collar white, tinged with rufous in front of the triangular black 

 mark ; costal fascia white or tinged with rufous ; the orbicular 

 subtriangular ; the cell not darker than the ground-colour ; the 

 ante- and postmedial double lines rufous. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous. 



Hab. Japan ; N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Satara ; Nilgiris. 

 Exp. 48 millim. 



1652. Agrotis accipiter, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. Ill, fig. 29; C. $ S. 

 no. 2261. 



Head and collar yellowish white ; thorax and abdomen brown. 

 Tore wing brown ; the costal area suffused with grey-green ; 

 subbasal, ante- and postmedial waved black lines ; the orbicular 

 and reniform large with some dark suffusion round them, the 

 latter with grey centre; an indistinct submarginal line with a 



