TRIPHiENA. 



635 



the area beyond it being j)iirplish grey irrorated with brown, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and exeiirved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of small dentate black spots. Hind wing pale 

 suffused with brown, especially towards termeu, the cilia pale with 

 a brown line near base; the underside pale irrorated with brown, 

 the costal area suffused with purple-red, a dark discoidal point and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa, type t S in Coll. Sehaus. Exp. 40 

 millim. 



1093. Triphsena midosa. 



Agrotis nndosa, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 501, pi. 1. f. 3. 



Head and thorax brown, more or less strongly suffused with grey 

 and mixed with black, especially on head and tegulae ; abdomen 

 brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen irrorated with 

 black, the tarsi ringed with white. Pore wing grey-brown, suffused 

 in parts with dark brown ; a double subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a double antemedial line slightly angled inwards 

 in submedian fold and on vein 1 ; the medial area suffused with 

 black from costa to median nervure, the inner area with some 

 waved lines ; claviform blackish and defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by black, the former round ; the postmedial 

 line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, and with a series of points on the veins 

 beyond it ; the subtermiual line whitish, defined by fuscous suffusion 

 before it and a black patch at costa, minutely dentate, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal waved 

 black line. Hind wing fuscous brown, blacker towards termen ; 

 the cilia pale yellowish ; the underside greyish, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial 

 line, the terminal area suffused with black, 



Hab. Japan (Pryer), 1 S type, Oiwake (LeecJi), 1 $ , jSTikko 

 (Leech), 1 5 . Kvjj. 40 millim. 



1094. TriphaBna mirabilis. (Plate LXXVIL fig. 8.) 



Agrotis mirabilis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 39 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 54. 



c? . Head and thorax black mixed with grey, the latter with 

 flesh-pink dorsal fascia ; shoulders with white points at origin of 

 fore wing ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown 

 irrorated with grey. Pore wing black thickly irrorated with pale 

 grey ; the subbasal line represented by some black scales below the 

 cell ; the antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved, and acutely 

 angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 yellowish white, the former small, the latter moderate ; a black 

 streak in the cell from the antemedial line to the reniform ; the 

 postmedial line very indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa 

 and incurved below vein 4 ; an indistinct sinuous subterminal line, 

 with diffused black patch on its inner side at costa, on which are 

 some pale points ; the terminal area somewhat greyer ; a terminal 



