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Sect. I. Antennae of male with moderate branches, the apical part serrate. 



A. Forewing with the ground colour grey-brown to fuscous segetis. 



B. Forewing with the ground colour grey-white subalba 



(1) Agrotis segetis, Scbiff. Wien. Verz. p. 252, id. Wien. Verz. 



81, 12 f. 3. a. b. (1776). Larva Fawcett. Trans. Z. S. xv. vi. 

 p. 317, pi. 49, f. 16 (1901). 

 AgrotU margincdu, Wlk. x. 339 (1856). 

 „ obliviom, Wlk. X. 389 (1856). 



,, denticulosa, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon, iv. p. 168 (1860). 

 Hab. Europe ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marsliall) ; Natal, 

 Estcourt (Hutcbinson, Kraus) ; Cape Colony (Drege, A. Smitb) ; 

 India ; Ceylon. Exjj. 42-48 mill. 



(2) Agrotis subalba, Wlk. x. 839 (1856). 



nivalis, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110, f. 11 (1874). 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Drege). Exp. 44 mill. 



Sect. n. Antennae of male with very short branches, the apical part serrate. 



(3) Agrotis spinifera, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Scbmett. Noct. f. 389 



(1827). 



Aifrotis spiculifera, Guen. Noct. 1, p. 266 (1852). 

 " ,, ferina, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110, f. 12 (1874). 



Hab. Southern Europe; Eritrea; British East Africa; Mashona- 

 land, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Transvaal (Ross) ; Natal, Estcourt 

 (Hutcbinson); Cape Colony (Drege, A. Smitb); Persia; India, 

 Ceylon, and Burma. Exp. 38 mill. 



Sect. III. Antennffi of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing without very highly dentate antemedial line emitting teeth to the 

 base. 



a. Forewing with well-defined blackish or deep black ante- 

 medial, medial, and postmedial patches on costa ; colour 

 grey-white, usually tinged with green ; thorax purplish red 



or black muscosa. 



b. Forewing without well-defined black patches on costa. 



a^. Forewing with black fascia from base below and in the cell to the 



orbicular stigma. 



a-. Tegulffi with black patch airitegulata. 



52. Tegulffi without black patch plecta. 



fci. Forewing with triangular black patches in cell before 



the orbicular and reuiform stigmata bitriangula. 



