264 Annals of the South African Museum. 



(17) Agkotis indigna, Herr Schaff. Lep. Exot. f. 130 (1850). 



dividens Wlk. x. 342 (1856). 

 Axylia intendens, Wlk. xi. 717 (1857). 



Hah. British East Africa ; Natal (Kraus) ; Cape Colony, Ami- 

 shaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 32-36 mill. 



(18) Agrotis interstriata, n. sp. 



Head and thorax black, sides of head with whitish lines ; tibiaa and 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous with fine pale segmental 

 lines. Forewing with the basal two-thirds fuscous black suffused 

 with blue-grey on inner half ; a fine black very highly dentate ante- 

 medial line emitting teeth almost to the base on median nervure and 

 vein 1 ; the orbicular a minute black- edged white spot ; the reniform 

 small with black centre and whitish annulus defined by a black line ; 

 the terminal area cupreous brown with dark streaks on the veins and 

 brown streaks in the interspaces, the costal area blackish with series 

 of white points ; cilia chequered black and pale brown. Hindwing 

 white ; the costal area tinged with fuscous. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Natal, Weenen, Kar- 

 kloof (Marshall) ; Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 

 30 mill. Type in B.M. 



(19) Agrotis sicca, Guen. Noct. i. p. 135 (1852). 

 Axylia renalis, Moore, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 341. 



Agrotis transjecta, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) 1, p. 220 (1898). 

 Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria (Distant) ; Cape Colony, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barrett). North-West India. Exp. 36 mill. 



(20)*Agrotis effracta, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) 1, p. 220 (1898). 

 Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria (Distant). Exp. 34 mill. 



(21) Agrotis dispalata, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 145. 



Hab. British East Africa; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall); 

 Natal, Karkloof (Marshall). Madagascar ; India. Exp. 

 28 mill. 



(22) Agrotis strigibasis, n. sp. 



Eed-brown ; head and thorax variegated with dark red-brown. 

 Forewing with series of dark and pale points on costa ; a highly 

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

 the orbicular, reniform and claviform moderate in size, fuscous with 



