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NOCTUID^. 



of the reniform spot (which is indicated by a black litura), a sigmoidal discal stripe, a subapical 

 spot and zigzag submarginal line, all of raised white scales ; a black irregular line across the 

 basal area; two central slender black lines, the outer one deeply dentated ; a >-shaped black 

 marking and two spots near the external angle ; costa black-spotted ; fringe white, spotted 

 with brownish : secondaries sericeous greyish brown, with a broad pale-edged blackish outer 

 border; fringe pale; margin black-dotted: thorax greenish grey; abdomen sericeous whitish. 

 Wings below whity brown, with a broad black-edged irregular discal band ; outer border 

 broadly blackish ; body below whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. 

 Yokohama [Jonas). 



KOCTUID^. 



AGEOTIS, Ochs. 



Agrotis illoba. (Plate XLIV. fig. 7.) 

 Agrotis illoba, Butler, Ann. 4' Mar/. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 162 (1878). 



Nearly allied to A. agricola, but altogether of a duller and greyer tint ; the markings better 

 defined ; a well-marked waved dentate-sinuate discal dusky line ; submarginal area bounded 

 internally by a very irregular zigzag pale line ; secondaries whiter than in A. agricola ; 

 thorax pearly greyish ; anal tuft testaceous: secondaries below with dusky costal and apical 

 areas ; a well-defined blackish discocellular spot. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



Hakodate [Whitely). 



Agrotis odiosa. (Plate XLIV. fig. 8.) 

 Agrotis odiosa, Butler, Ann. i^- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, %ol. i. p. 162 (1878). 



Colour and general character of the reddish form of A. saucia, but smaller, the orbicular 

 and reniform spots ill-defined and red ; the secondaries shining whity brown, with no distinct 

 darker border and without the blackish dots on the veins below. Expanse of wings 1 inch 

 8 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



HERMONASSA, Walker. 



Hermonassa cecilia. (Plate XLIV. fig. 9.) 



Hermonassa cecLLia, Buthr, Ann. 4' Mmj. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 164 (1878). 



Upper surface chocolate-brown : primaries darker than the secondaries ; costal margin 

 ferruginous ; orbicular and reniform spots and a spot below the median vein blackish, with 

 ochreous margins partly edged with black ; costal and basal areas spotted with black, the 

 interval between each two spots grey ; an oblique ochreous dash across the cell near the base ; 



