438 NOCTUID^, 



752. Agrotis poliogramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXI. fig. 16.) 



5 . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey and pale 

 brown ; tegnlae with black medial line and black at tips ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous mixed with dark brown. 

 Fore wing dark brown irrorated with grey, thickly on basal and 

 terminal areas ; the veins streaked with grey ; the snbbasal line 

 represented by black striae from costa and median nervure, defined 

 by grey on outer side and with black patch beyond it below the cell ; 

 the antemedial line angled outwards below costa, oblique to vein 1, 

 then strongly angled outwards above inner margin, defined by grey 

 on inner side ; claviform defined by black, acute at extremity, and 

 with an oblique ochreous-white fascia from it to postmedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform with grey annuli defined by black, their 

 centres irrorated with grey, the former oblique, open above, the 

 latter angled inwards on median nervure ; the postmedial line 

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

 below costa, very slightly angled inwards in discal fold and oblique 

 below vein 4 ; the subterminal line grey, defined by a series of 

 dentate black marks on inner side, slightly augled outwards at vein 

 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia intersected with grey. Hind wing fuscous brown, with fine 

 dark terminal line; the cilia whitish, with brown line at base; the 

 underside grey thickly irrorated with dark brown, a sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



llah. Kashjiik, Barra Lareha {McArtlmr), 1 $ type, Goorais 

 Yalley (Lca7(), 1 ? . Exp. 30 millim. 



753. Agrotis albifurca. 



Agrotis cdhifurca, Ersch. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xii. p. 337 (1877) ; Alph. 

 Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xvii. p. 44, pi. 2. f. 43 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. 

 Agrotis costata, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 420. 



$. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black ; abdomen 

 brownish ochreous. Fore wing grey suflPused with purplish fuscous 

 and black ; the costal area grey to the postmedial line ; the median 

 nervure and nervules defined by ochreous streaks to the subterminal 

 line ; vein 1 whitish towards base, then black on an ochreous fascia 

 arising from inner margin near base ; the subbasal line double, 

 black, filled in with grey from costa to submedian fold ; the ante- 

 medial line placed on an ochreous band and with some rufous before 

 it below costa, angled outwards at subcostal nervure, then oblique 

 and obsolete below vein 1 ; claviform very large, defined by black ; 

 orbicular oblique elliptical, ochreous defined by black ; reniform 

 with its upper part ochreous, its lower part blackish and dilated, 

 defined by black, and with its centre defined by blackish ; the post- 

 medial line blackish, defined by ochi^eous on outer side, obliquely 

 bent outwards from below costa to vein 6, oblique below vein 4, 

 an ochreous patch on costal area between it and the subterminal 

 line, which is ochreous, with a prominent series of dentate black 

 marks on its inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 



