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2 , 40 mm. 



Head and thorax redder than in the <? ; abdomen beneath whiter ; 

 fore wing almost entirely suffused with purple-brown and rufous, leaving 

 only the orbicular and reniform pale ochreous ; reniform with a black 

 dot in its anterior half in addition to the posterior one. Hind wing 

 rather more smoky than in the <? . In spite of these differences there 

 seems no doubt that this is the ? of A. pallidisigna, the underside 

 of both wings, as well as the general scheme of the upperside, being 

 identical. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, one 3 , two 2 ? . 



Belongs to Section IV of Hampson. 



3. Agrotis hasta sp. nov. 



$ , 40 mm. 



Head, tegulae and third segment of palpus whitish, the tegulae with 

 a fine black line at base, followed by a band of pale rufous ; second 

 segment of palpus blackish ; thorax and antennal shaft pale rufous ; 

 abdomen above tinged with rufous (more fuscous in the type) ; abdomen 

 beneath, pectus and legs whitish, tinged with pale rufous (hair on pectus 

 and tibiae deeper rufous in the type). 



Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with rufous (except on costa 

 from base to postmedial line, which remains pale as in A. plecta L.) ; a 

 thick black streak in cell from near base to beyond reniform (in one 

 specimen reaching the postmedial line) ; a diffused black streak behind 

 cell from base to antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform white, 

 the former small, round, the latter narrow, kidney-shaped, slightly 

 defined by blackish, with a fine rufous line at middle ; antemedial line 

 ill-defined, brown, waved, from one-third costa to two-fifths hind 

 margin ; postmedial line brown, bent outwards from two-thirds costa 

 to the subcostals, vertical to M 1 and slightly incurved to hind margin ; 

 subterminal line almost obsolete except for a slight proximal dark spot 

 at costa and faint proximal fuscous shading; a strong row of inter- 

 neural terminal black spots ; fringe dull rufous with an ochreous line 

 at base. 



Hind wings smoky-brown, whiter at base, with slight discal spot 

 and curved postmedial line ; interneural black terminal spots ; fringe 

 ochreous-white. 



Both wings beneath smoky-brown, a little paler towards termen, 

 costally pale rufous to postmedial line ; the veins towards termen a 



