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and reniform pale defined by black, the former small, elliptical, the 

 latter with fuscous centre, a diffused medial shade passing between 

 them ; a black streak from the reniform to postmedial line, which 

 is dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique and incurved in submedian fold ; the subterminal line 



Fig. 70. — Agrotis hemileiica, (^ . \. 



defined by dentate bhickish spots before and beyond it; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing pure white, some dark points 

 on medial part of termen. 



Hah. CoifGO, 1 S , type. Exp. 3G millim. 



*643. Agrotis consentanea. (Plate LXIX. fig. 25.) 

 Agrotis consentanea, Mab. Aaii. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxiii. p. cvii (1880). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; tegulte with the basal half irrorated with black ; tibias 

 and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous. Pore wing 

 ochreous, tinged wdtb rufous and sparsely irrorated with black ; 

 the subbasal line represented by two black spots on costa, the 

 antemedial line by two black spots on costa, a spot below the cell, 

 and an angle above inner margin ; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; 

 reniform large, filled in with black and traversed by the medial 

 shade, which is angled at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line obso- 

 lescent, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, the costa beyond it black with some pale points ; 

 subterminal line represented by an ill-defined series of dentate 

 black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pure white, 

 with a fine brown terminal line. 



Hah. Madagasc.\r, Foule])ointe, type t 6 ii^ Coll. Mabille. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



Sect. III. Aiiterinsc of male bipectiaate with short branches, the apical part 

 ciliated. 



A. Frons black opacifrons. 



B. Frons not black. 



a. Tegulic with medial black line. 



a\ Fore wing with wedge sliaped black mark from outer 

 edge of reniform. 

 «^ Fore wing with black fascia between orbicubir and 



reniform • spina. 



U^. Fore wing without black fascia between oi-bicular 



and reniform ij'j)dhm. 



