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(9) Agrotis oliveata, n. sp. 



^ . Head and thorax olive-yellow irrorated with black ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen greyish ochreous. Forewing pale grey-brown 

 suffused with olive-yellow and irrorated with black ; a series of small 

 black spots on costa ; a minutely dentate antemedial black line 

 angled outwards below the cell and inwards on vein 1 ; the orbicular 

 and reniform black-edged, the former round, the latter large ; a 

 highly dentate black postmedial line, bent outwards from below costa 

 to vein 3 ; traces of a dentate subterminal line ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hindwing whitish tinged with brownish ochreous ; 

 traces of a curved postmedial line and of a diffused subterminal 

 band ; a fine brown terminal line. Under side of both wings with 

 dark postmedial line, curved and punctiform on hindwing. 

 Hab. Cape Colony. Exp. 42 mill. Type in B.M. 



(10) Agrotis postventa, Hiibn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. iii. ff. 865, 



866. 

 Hab. Cape Colony ; Namaqualand. Exp. ^ 40, ? 52 mill. 



(11) Agrotis perirrorata, n. sp. 



Brownisli grey ; palpi and frons blackish ; head and thorax thickly 

 irrorated with black ; abdomen tinged with fuscous. Forewing 

 thickly irrorated with groups of brown scales ; traces of a sinuous 

 antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform 

 rather obscure and blackisli, the former small or minute, the latter 

 rather small ; an indistinct punctiform postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa and obtusely angled inwards at vein 5 and outwards at 

 vein 4; slight dark marks on costa and a rather more distinct soiue- 

 what triangular patch beyond the postmedial line; a prominent ter- 

 minal series of black points. Hindwing ochreous white with terminal 

 series of bhick points. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Natal, Estcourt 

 (Hutciiinson) ; Cape Colony, Trauskei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 

 34 mill. Type in B.M. 



(12) Agrotis fumicolor, n. sp. 



Head rufous mixed with black ; thorax fuscous black, a slight 

 rufous metathoracic tuft ; abdomen grey, dorsally suffused with 

 fuscous black leaving slight segmental lines, the anal tufts of male 

 rufous. Forewing brownish almost entirely suffused with fuscous 

 black ; the black lines and stigmata hardly traceable. Hindwing 



