196 Some apparently new Species and Forms of Noctuidae 



little darker ; hind wing paler on abdominal half ; both wings with 

 discal spot and dark waved postmedial line ; margin and fringes as 

 above. 



4,600 feet, January, 1920, two $ $ . 



Belongs to Section V of Hampson, 3 antenna ciliate. Perhaps 

 nearest to A. plecta of any previously described species, but very 

 distinct. 



4. Agrotis pallidimargo sp. nov. 



$ , 40 — 41 mm. 



Head, palpus, and thorax pale dove-colour (varying slightly in 

 different specimens), the second segment of palpus shaded with rufous 

 and blackish ; antennal shaft brown ; abdomen above ochreous-grey, 

 the anal tuft pale ochreous ; abdomen beneath, pectus and legs 

 ochreous-white, more or less strongly tinged with rufous, the tibial 

 spines well-developed, deep red-brown. 



Fore wing dove-colour, slightly flushed in parts with pink and 

 sparsely irrorated with fuscous ; markings (with the exception of the 

 reniform and a subterminal costal spot) very ill-defined. Slight sub- 

 basal black spots on costa and M, and a dot in cell further removed 

 from base ; antemedial line from a black dot at one-third costa, oblique 

 and waved to near middle of hindmargin ; orbicular large, round, 

 distally and proximally defined by slight dark lines ; claviform 

 obsolete ; reniform a slightly diffused red-brown patch, blackened and 

 bent outward posteriorly, with slight pale annulus and indistinct dark 

 definition ; postmedial line double, dentate, the distal line composed 

 of black teeth on the veins, the proximal of slight lunules between 

 the veins, the latter strongly bent outward from a black spot at two- 

 thirds costa, gently excurved to fold and slightly bent outward to 

 hindmargin near tornus ; subterminal line defined by the costal dark 

 patch and a row of slight black proximal points, slightly bent out- 

 ward at SC 5 , thence almost vertical ; a fine rufous marginal line, 

 thickened to spots in the interspaces ; fringe ochreous with broad 

 rufous shading at middle and some fuscous at the tips. 



Hind wing pale greyish-ochreous with the hair on abdominal 

 margin and fringe clearer ochreous ; an indistinct dark discal spot 

 and subterminal shade and a still slighter postmedial line ; the termen 

 pale except for the fine brown terminal line. 



Underside of both wings pale-ochreous with the costa broadly pale- 



