584 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



779 a. Agrotis us tula, sp. n. 



£ . Head and thorax dark red-brown, the teguhe except 

 at tips yellow mixed with red, and with slight red medial 

 line ; pectus and legs black-brown, the throat ochreous. the 

 fore coxse bright rufous, the tarsi ringed with ochreous; 

 abdomen pale red-brown, the ventral surface ochreous. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous yellow suffused with fiery red, except 

 the base and the cell and area just below it to the ante medial 

 line, the inner area suffused with blackish except at base ; 

 a fine black streak in submedian fold before the autemedial 

 line, which is double, blackish, dentate, bent inwards to 

 inner margin ; orbicular pale ochreous yellow with small 

 black spot in centre, its outer edge produced to a point con- 

 fluent with the reniform, which has a greyish centre defined 

 by black and ochreous-yellow annulus on inner side only ; 

 an oblique dark shade from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double and black at costa, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then represented by an oblique 

 series of black points on the veins defined on outer side by 

 ochreous points, the veins beyond them streaked with black ; 

 the terminal part of costa black with a series of pale points ; 

 an ochreous apical patch, the termen below it with a series 

 of black points; cilia ochreous with slight dark line near 

 base except towards apex and intersected with black at 

 veins 6 to 4 Hind wing semihyaliue white faintly tinged 

 with brown, a slight discoidal point and terminal line; the 

 underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous and 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot, postmedial 

 series of minute streaks on the Veins and terminal series of 

 small black spots from apex to vein 2. 



Hub. Br. E. Africa, Nairobi {Anderson), 1 <$ type. 

 Exp. 28 mm. 



841 a. Episilia cirphidia, sp. n. 



J . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey and some 

 fuscous ; abdomen grey suffused with red-brown. Fore 

 wing grev tinged with red-brown and thickly irrorated with 

 dark brown : a dark brown fascia below median nervure ; a 

 minute black spot in middle of cell and two discoidal spots ; 

 a whitish streak in discal fold from the discocellulars to 

 before termen, with dark red-brown fascia above and below 

 it, met by an oblique red-brown shade from termen below 

 apex ; a terminal series of minute black spots ; cilia whitish, 

 with a brown line near base. Hind wing pale red-brown ; 

 cilia whitish, with a red-brown line through them ; the 



