18S5.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 453 



NOCTOID^. 



43. Agrotis conspurcata. 



Agrotis conspurcata. Walker, xxxii. p. 696, 

 Poona, October. 



44. Agrotis segetum. 



Phalena-Noctua segetis, Gral. ed. Syst. Nat. i. v. 2539, 1018. 

 Noctua segetum, Wien. Verz. Ixxxi. p. 12, pi. i. figs. 3a, b. 

 Poona, December. 



45. Agrotis suffusa. 



Phalena-Noctua suffusa, Ginl. ed. Syst. Nat. i. v. 2541, 1028. 

 Pooua. 



46. Agrotis aristifera. 



Agrotis aristifera, Guenee, Noct. i. pp. 266, 426. 

 Poona, December to March. 



47. Agrotis vana, n. sp. (Plate XXVII. fig. 9.) 



Sattara, June ; Poona, August and September. 



Pale yellowish fawn- colour; antennse brown; palpi with the first 

 and last joints brown, last joint white-tipped; eyes black; thorax 

 with a black band in front, and with a large square deep black patch 

 in the centre of the prothorax. Fore wings with a deep black, much 

 interrupted band from the base, gradually widening to the outer 

 margin, which it would almost fully occupy except for the interup- 

 tions by which it is divided into five parts ; the interruptions consist 

 of whitish streaks, extending from along the median and subcostal 

 veins, and another streak of the same colour, from the apex down- 

 wards, joining the median- vein streak on the second median branch, 

 near its root ; hinder margin with a small deep black mark near the 

 base ; marginal line white, inwardly edged with black ; fringe 

 brown. Hind wings white, slightly shaded towards the outer margin. 



Expanse of wings 1 to ly-^ inch. 



48. Graphiphora c-nigrum. 



PhalcEna-Noctua c-nigrum, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 1193. 

 Bombay, February. 



49. Graphiphora cognata. 



Graphiphora coynata, Moore, Desc. Lep. Col. Atkinson, ii. p. 119 

 (1882). 



Poona, September and December, 



50. OCHROPLEURA TRIANGULARIS. 



Ochropleura triangularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 55. 

 Sattara, November. 

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