350 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [Mar, 1, 



border. Underside as above ; lines on fore wing obsolete. Body 

 brownish ochreous, anal tuft brighter ochreous ; antennae and legs 

 above dark brov^n, with pale ochreous bands. 



Expanse IjL inch. 



Hab. Punjab hills. In coll. F. Moore. 



Genus Acosmetia, Stephens. 

 AcosMETiA NEBULosA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 13.) 



Upperside pale ochreous-brown : fore wing darkest, with several 

 transverse indistinctly darker waved narrow fasciae ; some pale spots 

 on costal edge near the apex. Underside paler. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Acosmetia nigrescens, n. sp. 



Upperside dark brown : fore wing somewhat greyish brown, with 

 an indistinct black spot in middle of the cell, a streak at its end, a 

 transverse discal waved line, and a broad outer pale band, which is 

 pale-bordered above the posterior angle and is continued along the 

 posterior border : hind wing with blackish-brown outer border. 

 Thorax above blackish brown. Underside uniform brown. 



Expanse l-^ inch. 



Hab. Bombay. In coll. F. Moore. 



Fam. NocTUiD^. 

 Genus Agrotis, Ochs. 

 Agrotis quadrisigna, n. sp. 



Male and Female. Fore wing grey, crossed by a black subbasal 

 double sinuous line, an antemedian line, an irregular waved post- 

 median line, and a submarginal series of ochreous spots, bordered oa 

 both sides by a black dentate point, a marginal row of minute black 

 dots, orbicular and reniform marks black-Uned, a broad quadrate 

 black dentate mark below the orbicular spot ; hind wing and abdo- 

 men paler grey, whitish at the base. Thorax, palpi, and legs grey, 

 with black speckles ; tarsi with black bands. 



Expanse ly^j inch. 



Hab. Solun, Punjab ; Deyra. In coll. F. Moore. 



Allied to A. lahyririthica, Staudinger, and to A. placida. 



Agrotis costigera, n. sp. 



Male and Female. Fore wing dark purple-brown, the basal and 

 discal areas suffused with grey ; costal border pale purplish ochre- 

 ous ; a transverse basal, antemedian, and a postmedian sinuous black 

 pale-centred line ; orbicular and reniform spots black-lined, dark- 

 centred, and with a pale ochreous inner border, the reniform slightly 

 angled at the upper end of its inner border ; an oval black mark 

 below the cell; a pale ochreous submarginal line, with irregular 

 alternate purple-brown and reddish inner border ; a marginal row 



