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rufous; the fore wing (with the exception of the termen and hind- 

 margin) and costal fourth of hind wing irrorated with fuscous ; both 

 wings with slight subterruinal shading, discal spot and postmedial line, 

 the latter two better denned on hind than fore wing. 



? , 43 mm. 



Fore wing a little darker and more violet in tone than in the $ ; 

 hind wing with the distal third somewhat darkened. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, four 3 $ , one ? . 



Probably belongs to Section V of Hampson, though the antennal 

 shaft appears to be subserrate and the ciliation is fasciculate. 



Nearest to A. stigmatius Warr., from which it differs in the 

 following points : In pallidimargo the fore wing is rather broader and 

 less brown in tone than in stigmatius (this refers to the $ only) ; the 

 subterminal line is more broken and indefinite ; the postmedial line 

 starts a little nearer to apex and is less strongly bent outwards at 

 costa ; reniform less sharply defined ; the hind wing is very distinct 

 in the $ owing to the darkest shading coming on the subterminal 

 area, not on the termen (as in stigmatius and the majority of Agrotis 

 species). The hair on second segment of palpus appears also to differ, 

 being less strongly pointed at extremity in pallidimargo than in 

 stigmatius, but it is just possibly worn in all four Ceram $ 3 , though 

 probably the distinction would hold good. 



5. Agrotis olivacea, sp. nov. 



$ , 36 mm. 



Head, tegulse and third segment of palpus, pale olive-brown ; thorax 

 and antennal shaft predominantly red-brown ; second segment of 

 palpus, pectus and legs dark red-brown, the tarsi banded with blackish 

 and ringed with white ; abdomen above clothed with rough tawny- 

 brown hair ; some more golden hairs in anal tuft ; abdomen beneath 

 largely irrorated with red-brown. 



Fore wing pale olive-brown irrorated with red-brown (especially 

 near postmedial line), and shaded with violet on terminal area, 

 variegated ; lines dark-brown, double ; costa dark red-brown. Sub- 

 basal line slightly bent out at costa and angled inward in cell, ending in 

 a dark spot at M ; a slight brown mark in cell near antemedial line ; 

 antemedial line from about one-third costa, beet outward to SC, thence 



