194 Some apparently new Species and Forms of Noctuidae 



between the veins ; termen with very conspicuous black interneural 

 spots ; fringe greyish mixed with pale-brown, a fine white line at base. 



Hind wing shining white, with slight brown shading about costa 

 and at termen ; a brown discal spot. 



Underside of fore wing brownish-white, the cell clothed with blackish 

 hair ; a dark discal spot and semi-macular postmedial line ; some black 

 marginal dots and slight black marginal line. Hind wing white, costally 

 irrorated with brown ; a black discal spot and dentate postmedial line, 

 becoming obsolescent behind R 1 . 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, two $ $ . 



Belongs to Section IV of Hampson : $ antenna serrate and fas- 

 ciculate. 



2. Agrotis pallidisigna sp. nov. 



3' , 38 mm. 



Head, thorax, third segment of palpus and base of antennal shaft 

 deep ochreous ; second segment of palpus, pectus and legs red-brown, 

 the tarsi blackish ; abdomen above pale ochreous and reddish-brown, 

 the basal half clothed with a dense tuft of greyish-ochreous hair ; 

 abdomen beneath pale red-brown. 



Fore wing deep ochreous, suffused in parts with purple-brown and 

 fuscous, the markings obsolescent. Some white scales at base and 

 along basal third of costa ; traces of a subbasal line excurved behind 

 costa and incurved in cell ; antemedial line almost obsolete to M, bent 

 outward in fold ; orbicular round, indistinctly defined on each side by 

 brown, with slight pale annulus ; a slight dark spot at end of claviform ; 

 reniform pale, irregularly kidney-shaped, with slight ochreous line at 

 middle and posterior black dot ; reniform indicated by black dots on the 

 veins, from costa at about five-sevenths, excurved to fold, where it is 

 angled inward, and bent outward to hind margin, distally shaded with 

 purple-brown (especially behind M) ; subterminal line distally defined 

 by purple-brown, slightly excurved behind costa and M ; a slight dark 

 terminal line ; fringe deep ochreous, the outer half shaded with purple- 

 brown. 



Hind wing ochreous-white, the termen shaded with brown ; a slight 

 brown discal spot and terminal line. 



Underside of both wings shining ochreous-white with the costa and 

 tips of fringes broadly shaded with pale rufous and with slight indica- 

 tions of a postmedial line at costa ; a slight terminal line on both 

 wings ; discal spot absent. 



