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Hab. Galla Country ; Transvaal (Boss) ; Natal (Smith, Gooch), 

 Estcourt (Hutchinson), Durban (Leigh) ; Cape Colony, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barrett), Knysna, Cape Town (Gueinzius, Trimen) ; 

 Madagascar. Exp. 36-42 mill. 



(5) Agkotis atritegulata, n. sp. 



(? . Head ochreous white ; palpi blackish except at tips ; thorax 

 ochreous white tinged with rufous, the tegui^ with large black patch 

 and without rufous tinge ; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous 

 white slightly irrorated with fuscous. Forewing grey, the costal area 

 ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, the costal edge ochreous ; 

 some whitish at base of inner margin ; a black fascia in and below 

 cell to the orbicular and thence to the reniform, which is defined on 

 outer side by black. Hindwing pure white. 



Hab. Transvaal (Boss). Exp. 38 mill. Type in B.M. 



(6) Agrotis plecta, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. S51 (1758). 

 Ochropleura vicaria, Wlk. x. 409 (1856). 



Hab. North America; Europe; Cape Colony (Dr. A. Smith); 

 Japan; India; Ceylon. Exp.MmiW. 



(7) Agrotis bitriangula, n. sp. 



Grey ; palpi black except at tips ; antennae blackish ; tegulse black, 

 edged with grey. Forewing purplish grey, irrorated with a few black 

 and red scales ; an indistinct sinuous antemedial line bent outwards 

 to inner margin ; truncate triangular white-edged black spots in cell 

 before the orbicular and reniform, which are almost obsolete, a few 

 black scales below the former and beyond the latter ; a pale sinuous 

 subterminal line ending at tornus. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 36 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



(8) Agrotis isopleura, n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax grey, the scales pencilled with brown ; palpi 

 except at tips and sides of frons black ; abdomen grey. Forewing 

 grey, irrorated with fuscous and tinged with fuscous on costal and 

 terminal areas; an indistinct double waved antemedial line; the 

 orbicular and reniform grey incompletely defined by black scales and 

 with quadrate black patch between them ; a sinuous line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; an indistinct double waved postmedial 

 line bent outwards below costa. Hindwing semihyaline white. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 30 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



