658 " NOCTUID^. 



incurved and angled outwards on vein 1 ; postmedial area blackish, 

 terminal area pale reddish brown, the subterminal line defined b}^ 

 the difference between them, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; cilia chequered fuscous and whitish. Hind 

 wing whitish, the basal area and a broad terminal band brown, 

 confluent on inner area and conjoined to a brown discoidal lunule ; 

 cilia white, brown at base from apex to vein 2. 



Fore tibife with one claw and two spines on inner side, four claws 

 on outer. 



Hab. Patagonia, Carmen, type t S in Mus. Buenos Ayres. 

 Exp. 28 millim. 



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*229 a. Isochlora xanthiana. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 5.) 



Isochlora xanthiana, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 320 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 223. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous ; palpi, lower part of frons, pectus, 

 and legs rufous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous especially 

 on ventral surface. Fore wing yellow ; a waved rufous subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line rufous, oblique, 

 strongly and rather irregularly dentate ; orbicular represented by a 

 slight oblique rufous striga ; reniform a small fuscous lunule ; a 

 broad rufous shade beyond the cell extending to the antemedial line 

 at submedian fold and inner margin ; postmedial line sinuous and 

 produced to slight points on the veins, slightly incu.rved at discal 

 fold and strongly below vein 4 ; a subterminal series of small rufous 

 lunules slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia rufous. Hind wing ochreous 

 tinged with rufous, a fine rufous terminal line ; the underside more 

 strongly sufiiised with rufous, a fuscous discoidal lunule and 

 indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Tibet, Amdo, Sinin Mts., in Coll. Piiugeler. Exp. 

 50 millim. 



Page 133. 235. Agrotiphila standingeri del. Agrotis montana. 



Page 136. 240. Orosagrotis rigida insert Agrotis montana, Morr. 

 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi. p. 95 (1875), 

 which has precedence. 



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245 a. Porosagrotis caffra, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 29.) 



S . Antenngo bipeetinate, with long branches to apex. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey- white ; abdomen 

 ochreous. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; the costal area suff"used with fuscous to beyond 

 middle; a blackish strealv in cell from middle to extremity continued 

 in discal fold indistinctly to termen ; an obsolescent streak in sub- 



