424 NocTuiD^. 



2 5 , Dharmsala (Hocl-ing), 5 c5' , 3 $ ;' Nilgiris (Swinhoe, Hampson)^ 

 2 c5' J 7 $ , types erubescens, Butl., embescens, Hmpsn., and efflor- 

 escens ; IJp. Burma, Byingyi {Bingham), 1 d' . Exp. 32-46 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 103; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 66, pi. 144. f. 1. 



Greenish ochreous to dull green ; dorsal area whitish oehreous to 

 deep brown ; dorsal line pale, dark-edged, interrupted, traversing a 

 series of darker diamond-shaped marks ; subdorsal Hue pale, edged 

 above by a series of short black streaks ; subspiracular line pale ; 

 head pale brown ; thoracic plate dark brown. Food-plants : Eumex, 

 Primula, Plantago, etc. 9-5. 



726. Agrotis tarda. (Plate LXX. fig. 31.) 

 Noctua tarda, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 495, pi. 50. f. 4. 



5 . Head and thorax greyish tinged with rufous ; palpi blackish, 

 pale at tips ; tibiae and tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 fuscoiis brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous, the latter 

 irrorated with black. Fore wing fuscous suffused with purplish 

 grey ; a double black subbasal line from costa to vein 1, its outer 

 edge diffused ; a double oblique waved black antemedial line with 

 black patch before it above vein 1 ; claviform small, rufous defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform pale rufous defined by black and 

 their centres by brown, the former oblique, elliptical, the cell 

 between them black ; a slight medial shade angled outwards to lower 

 angle of cell; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the sub- 

 terminal line defined by black suffusion before it on costal area, 

 then nearly obsolete, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and ex- 

 curved at middle ; a terminal series of slight points. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the cilia pale with a brown line near base; the 

 underside pale tinged with purplish, a dark discoidal lunule and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Japan, Hakodate {Leech), 1 5 type. Exp. 40 millim. 



727. Agrotis cinctipennis. (Plate LXX. fig. 32.) 

 Apamea cinctipennis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vii. p. 323 (1881). 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black and some 

 grey ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally suffused 

 with fuscous and with lateral series of black spots. Fore wing 

 purplish red, thickly irrorated and striated with black ; a double, 

 waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, 

 antemedial line ; claviform small defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform purplish fuscous defined by black, the former somewhat 

 oblique, elliptical, open above, in one specimen the orbicular and 

 reniform are white, the latter with rufous and fuscous centre ; an 

 indistinct waved line from lower angle of coll to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line rather indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line 



