1888.] from western india. 305 



51. Agrotis sxjffusa. (No. 14/.) 

 PhalcBnu-Noctua si/fusa, Gmel. S. N. i. 5. p. 2541. 



One female and two males from Thundiani and Rawal Piiidi ; the 

 pair from the former locality, August, 1886 ; but the male from 

 llawul Pindi is dated March 3rd, 1887. " At sugar, very common, 

 August." 



52. Agrotis segetum. (No. 147.) 



Noctua segetum, W. V. 81. 12, pi. 1. fig. 3 a, b. 



Four females and six males, with the usual variations in depth of 

 colouring, from Thundiani, Rawal Pindi. " Very common at sugar 

 in August." 



53. Agrotis corticea. (No. 166.) 

 Noctua corticea, W. V. 81. 13. 



1 Agrotis ingrata, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, i. p. 162 ; 

 111. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 27, pi. xxix. fig. 9. 



Agrotis fraterna, Moore, Desc. Ind. Lep. Atk. ii. p. 116. 



One female and four males from Thundiani, August J 886. 



A rather small and strongly -marked form, like the examples from 

 Dhamsala in the Hocking Collection, with the costa of the fore wing, 

 the face, and palpi, conspicuously darker. In A. ingrata, Butler, 

 the females are larger and stouter, with the clavit'orm stigma, as a 

 rule, longer, but the male seems identical. 



54. Agrotis intracta. (No. 163.) 



Agrotis intracta, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M, x, p. 346. 



One male from Thundiani, October 8th, 1886. 



Walker's description was made from the single male from Nepaul, 

 in the British Museum collection. Mr. Moore, I believe, nas now 

 two females. The species belongs to the group in which the hind 

 wings of the male as well as of the female are dark. 



55. Agrotis quadrisigna. (No. 132?) 

 Agrotis quadrisig7ia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 350. 

 Chersotis quadrisigna, Butler, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 617. 



One female, taken in May ; one male at the end of September, in 

 the Berham Gully ; both much damaged. 



Mr. Moore makes it allied to A. lahyrinthica, Staud., and to 

 A. placida. Mr. Butler, on the other hand, says it is related to 

 Chersotis rectangula, which, however, in the male has strongly pecti- 

 nated aiitennse. 



In his description Mr. Moore has omitted to mention one charac- 

 teristic marking, viz. that the centre of the outer margin of the reni- 

 form stigma is filled up with brick-red. 



56. Graphiphora valida. (Nos. 20, 154?, 163?) 

 Graphiphora valida, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 711. 

 Seven specimens, all females, from Thundiani, August to October, 



1886. 



