AGROTIS. 451 



from the reniform above and below vein 5 to termen ; a postraedial 

 series of black points on the veins bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a dark patch on termen above 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia chequered ochreous 

 and black. Hind vring ochreous white, with interrupted brown 

 terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a small discoidal point an<l postmedial series on the veins. 



Hah. MiSHOisrALAND, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 S ; Transvaal, 

 Pretoria, type t c? transjecta in Coll. Distant. Madagascar, Betsileo 

 (Ooiuan), 1 (S . Ea-j). 24-28 millim. 



773. Agrotis dispalata. (Plate LXXI. fig. 29.) 



Axylia disjMlata, Swinb. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 145 ; Ilmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 187. 



Head and tegulte ochreous ; thorax fuscous ; tibioe and tarsi 

 blackish with pale rings ; abdomen greyish tinged with fuscous. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated 

 with brown ; the costal area suffused with black ; the siibbasal line 

 represented by double black stria3 from costa ; slight brown streaks 

 in, above, and below cell before the antemedial line, which is double, 

 dentate, strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and above 

 inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform very 

 small, with dark centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former 

 round, the cell before and between them black ; an oblique shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line 

 consisting of a treble series of points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a dentate dark mark 

 from termen above middle to the postmedial line, and a slight mark 

 above tornus ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hah. Bombay, Poona (SivinJioe), 1 c? , 1 5 ? type, Khandalla 

 (Sivinhoe), 1 § ; Madras, Belgaum ( Watson), 2 c? . H.vj). 28-30 

 millim. 



774. Agrotis sicca. (Plate LXXI. fig. 30.) 



Axylia sicca, Guen. Noct. i. p. 135 (1852). 



Axylia renalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 341 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 187. 



Head ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi, except at tips, and a 

 bar across frons fuscous ; tegulae ochreous at base, with rufous 

 medial band and dark tips ; patagia rufous ; thorax fuscous ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen pale fuscous, the last with pale ventral stripe. 

 Fore wing ochreous ; the costal area purplish fuscous ; pale streaks 

 on base of subcostal and median nervures and two in cell ; the 

 subbasal line represented by double stride from costa and cell ; the 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, very strongly angled 

 inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and 



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