430 NOCTUID^. 



tips; abdomen grey irr orated with brown, Fore wing pale olive- 

 brown, the veins blue-grej' ; the subbasal line represented by double 

 oblique black striae from costa and median nervure filled in with 

 grey ; a double, waved, antemedial line filled in with grey, angled 

 outwards below costa and more strongly above inner margin ; 

 claviform large, defined by grey then black ; orbicular and reniform 

 with grey annuli defined by black, the former round or elliptical, 

 the cell before and between them and the area just beyond the 

 reniform more or less suffused with black ; the postmedial line 

 defined by grey on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved 

 below vein 4 ; the subterminal line grey, defined by dentate black 

 marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with fuscous, especially ou terminal half and in female ; 

 cilia pale brown at base, whitish at tips ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous ; a sinuous postmedial line and slight discoidal striga. 



Hah. Kashmir, Barra Larcha {McArtliur)^ 1 c? , 1 $ ; Punjab, 

 Dalhousie {Harford), 1 $ type. JExp. 38 millim, 



738. Agrotis cerastioides. (Plate LXXI. fig. 9.) 



GraiMphora cerastioides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 54; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



ii. p. 185. 

 Apamea nuhila, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 346, pi. 38. f. 10. 



Head and thorax purplish red-brown, often tinged with grey ; 

 palpi pale at tips ; tibiae and tarsi fuscous, the spurs with pale 

 rings : abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 rufous. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish grey, the 

 costal edge rufous ; an indistinct double subbasal line, angled out- 

 wards below costa ; a double antemedial line, angled inwards in 

 submedian fold and very strongly outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform with its extremity slightly defined by brown ; orbicular 

 and reniform with greyish annuli defined by brown, the former 

 round, the latter often with ochreous centre ; i:hQ postmedial line 

 double, even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark points ; cilia rufous, 

 with fine pale line at base. Hind wing dark brown, the cilia 

 purplish red with fine pale line at base ; the underside purplish red, 

 with small dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Punjab, Simla (J/arford), 1 J , Dharmsala (HocJcinc/), 1 ^^ ; 

 SiKHifti, 2 ,5 , 1 $ , type. Exp. 32-38 millim. 



739. Agrotis esurialis. (Plate LXXI. fig. 10.) 



Agrotis esurialis, Grrote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 131 (1831) ; Siuitb, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 72. 



(5 . Head and thorax pale brown-pink ; palpi black at sides. 



