426 - NOCTUID^. 



margin and black point on costa; the postmedial line minutely 

 dentate, with double black striae at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points on costa 

 towards apex; the subterrainal line represented by a series of 

 ochreous points with small obscure dentate blackish marks before 

 them, the area beyond them darker except at apex, which is pale ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 the cilia ochreous, with a brown line through them; the underside 

 whitish, the costal and terminal areas tinged with ochreous and 

 irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and waved postmedial line. 



5 . Thorax and fore wing rather browner. 



Hah. Hawaii {Blaclcburn), 1 c? , 1 § , type. Exj). 34-36 millim. 



730. Agrotis coniotis, n. n. (Plate LXXI. fig. 3.) 

 Agrotis chersotoldes, Mejr. Faun. Hawaiiensis, i. p. 151 (nee Butl.). 



Head and thorax blackish, the dorsal crests grey ; tarsi black 

 with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey- 

 brown, irrorated and striated with fuscous, the costal area to 

 subterminal line, the cell and area just below it to autemedial 

 line suffused with black ; a double, waved, subdorsal black line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, black antemedial 

 line ; elaviform small, obscurely defined by black : orbicular and 

 reniform black, with slight greyish annuli defined by black, the 

 former nearly round ; a slight oblique waved line from low^er angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line more or less indistinct, 

 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 subterminal line pale, defined by a dark patch 

 on inner side at costa, a little fuscous at middle and the area beyond 

 it darker except at apex which is pale, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of minute black lunules. 

 Hind wing pale brownish, the veins, costal and terminal areas 

 darker ; cilia pale, with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line with dark striae on the veins. 



Ab. 1. Head and thorax browner; fore wing without the black 

 suffusion on costal area, the orbicular whitish. 



Ab. 2. Head and thorax red-brown ; fore wing red-brown tinged 

 with fuscous on costal area. 



Hab. Hawaii, Kona {PerTcins)., 1 c? , 1 5 , type, Kauai, Mt. Waimea 

 {Perkins), 3 $ . L\vj). 36-40 millim. 



731. Agrotis rubicilia. 



Graphiphora rubicilia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 55 ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. 



ii. p. 185. 

 Graphiphora nigrosiyna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 352, pi. '68. f. 4. 



Head and thorax olive-yellow and rufous to bright rufous ; palpi 

 except at tips and hair of pectus purplish red ; tibiae and tarsi 



