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black lunules on M, the antemedial indistinctly waved and oblique to 

 near middle of hindmargin ; orbicular broad, pale, open anteriorly (with 

 the costa before it pale), rounded and denned by black posteriorly, 

 with a little rufous irroration in centre ; claviform represented by a 

 black spot behind orbicular ; some brown shading in cell between the 

 stigmata ; reniform proximally denned by a black line followed by a 

 pale lunule, distally very ill-defined, ochreous, with a slight brown 

 definition at middle ; postmedial line brown, macular, bent outward 

 from a black spot at three-fifths costa, excurved round cell and some- 

 what oblique to hindmargin at two-thirds ; subterminal line ochreous, 

 proximally defined by a dark streak from costa and brown spots on the 

 veins; a fine black terminal line thickened to spots on the veins; fringe 

 pale rufous with an ochreous line at base. 



Hind wing pale greyish-ochreous, a shade darker at termen, with 

 discal spot, slight postmedial and subterminal shades, and fine dark 

 terminal line ; fringe ochreous-white. 



Underside of fore wing pale grey-brown with the distal half of costa 

 and the fringe more ochreous ; some dark spots on costa, and traces of 

 a discal spot ; termen as above. Hind wing ochreous-white with some 

 costal dark irroration, a discal spot and pale brown waved postmedial 

 line ; termen and fringe as above. 



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



In the absence of the $ it is impossible to say with certainty where 

 this species belongs; possibly it should be placed next to A. olivacea, 

 of which, however, it can scarcely be the ? . 



7. Agrotis angusta sp. nov. 



2 , 31 mm. 



Head and thorax red-brown intermixed with blackish ; palpus 

 blackish, with a few pale scales ; antennal shaft black ; abdomen olive 

 grey-brown, the anal tuft yellowish-white ; pectus and femora grey- 

 brown ; tibiae above and tarsi blackish ringed with white at the joints ; 

 abdomen beneath whitish mottled with grey-brown. 



Fore wing suffused with reddish-brown and slate-grey, the red tints 

 predominating round the cell, leaving a large pale slaty-blue orbicular, 

 with the cell on each side filled in with blackish ; the lines double, ill- 

 defined ; the subbasal almost obsolete except at costa, where it is 

 excurved ; the antemedial indistinctly visible on costa, at about one- 

 fourth, reappearing in the fold, where it is excurved, strongly excurved 

 before hindmargin ; claviform absent ; reniform represented by a slate- 



