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semihyaline white ; the costal area tmged with fuscous; a postmedial 

 series of slight striae on the veins. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exjj. 28 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



(13) Agrotis mesomelana, n. sp. 



^ . Head and thorax brown suffused with black ; abdomen brown 

 tinged with fuscous. Forewing pale red-brown thickly irrorated with 

 groups of black scales ; an obscure short waved subbasal line and 

 more distinct antemedial line ; the medial area suffused with black 

 from costa to below the large orbicular and reniform and small clavi- 

 form stigmata ; the postmedial black line bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved beyond cell and excurved at median nervules, emitting very 

 short streaks on the veins ; a diffused dark sinuous terminal band 

 and series of black terminal points. Hindwing white slightly tinged 

 with ochreous ; a fine fuscous terminal line. 



$ . Hindwing strongly suffused with fuscous ; the cilia brownish. 

 Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Cape Colony, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. $ 32, ? 40 mill. Type in B.M. 



*(14) Agrotis crassilinea, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 168 (1860). 

 Hab. Cape Colony. Hxp. 86 mill. 



(15) Agrotis ginotithorax, Wlk. xi. 691 (1857). 



Hab. Cape Colony (Dr. A. Smith). Exp. 34 mill. 



(16) Agrotis puncticostata, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax brown suffused with black ; legs black with 

 white rings on tibiae and tarsi; abdomen greyish brown. Forewing 

 ferruginous brown with the medial area below the cell pale brownish 

 grey ; a series of prominent pale points on costa ; an indistinct 

 dentate antemedial line emitting teeth to the base in and below cell ; 

 the orbicular and reniform rather small with black centres and pale 

 annuli defined by fine black lines ; the postmedial line fine, black, 

 strongly dentate, the teeth ending in white points, bent outwards 

 below costa and slightly incurved below vein 3 ; traces of an irregular 

 pale subterminal line ; the veins of terminal area streaked with 

 black ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia chequered brownish and 

 black. Hindwing pure white, the costal area tinged with brown ; a 

 discoidal spot and postmedial series of points on the veins more 

 distinct on under side. 



Hab. British East Africa, Athi E. (Betton) ; Natal, Estcourt 

 (Hutchinson). Exp. 28-30 mill. Type in B.M. 



