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ON SOME APPARENTLY NEW SPECIES AND FORMS 



OF NOCTUIDAE. 



Collected by C, F., and J. Pratt, in the mountains op Central 

 Ceram, October, 1919, to February, 1920. 



By Miss A. E. PEOUT, F.E.S. 

 AGKOTINAE. 



The generic name Agrotis is employed here as by Sir G. Hampson in his Cat. Lep. 

 Phal., vol. iv. The generic nomenclature of the Agrotinae needs careful sifting 

 and readjustment. 



1. Agrotis magnipunctata sp. nov. 



2 , 32—34 mm. 



Head and third segment of palpus whitish mixed with brown ; 

 thorax whitish, slightly irrorated with brown ; base of tegulae, side of 

 head and second segment of palpus deep, glossy black-brown ; antennal 

 shaft brown ; pectus, legs and abdomen beneath creamy-white, the 

 tarsi broadly banded with black ; abdomen above grey, slightly darker 

 at base of segments. 



Fore wing pale-grey irrorated with brown, the lines brown ; the 

 subbasal double, indistinct, slightly waved and oblique, from costa to 

 SM ; antemedial indistinctly double, from costa at nearly one-third to 

 about one-third hind margin, waved, bent outward behind costa and 

 angled in on SM, behind which it becomes obsolescent ; orbicular 

 rather large, pale-grey, round, defined on each side by dark-brown and 

 with two or three dark specks at middle ; reniform nearly round, a little 

 larger than orbicular, defined at sides by dark-brown and with slight 

 brown line at middle, hardly defined anteriorly and posteriorly ; a dif- 

 fused red-brown medial shade, outwardly oblique from costa to M, 

 thence inwardly oblique to hindmargin ; postmedial line dark-brown, 

 strongly bent outward from costa at about two-thirds, gently excurved 

 to fold, thence slightly bent outward, distally dentate, with black teeth 

 on the veins ; subterminal only indicated by some diffused blackish spots 



