662 N0CTUTD3!;. 



highly dentate ; orbicular and reniform small, with fuscous centres 

 and grey annuli defined by black, the former round ; postmedial 

 line unusually near termen, double, highly dentate, very strongly 

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; terminal area with dark streaks on the 

 veins defined on each side by rufous, becoming pale at the sub- 

 terminal line, which is obsolete towards costa and dentate to near 

 termen at veins 4, 3. Hind wing pure white ; the cilia yellowish ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Mashona.land, Salisbury (Dohbie), 1 S , typo. Exjj. 

 36 millim. 



Page 354, no. 627. Feltia annexa insert (syn.) Agrotis interferens, 

 Wlk. XV. 1699 (1858). 



Page 450. 771 a. Agrotis semidolens. 



Agrotis semidolens, Wlk. xi. 739 (1857) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 

 p. 286, pi. 27. f. 13. 



Head and thorax grey, more or less strongly mixed with fuscous, 

 the tegulse and patagia sometimes edged by pale rufous ; palpi 

 black except at tips ; tarsi black, ringed with white ; abdomen grey, 

 dorsally suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing grey, more or less thickly striated with fuscous, the striffi 

 forming more or less confluent patches on costa before and at middle 

 and towards apex and on middle of inner area, the costal patches 

 and some other parts of wing slightly tinged with pale ferruginous ; 

 reniform represented by an indistinct dark lunule; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and inner areas, 

 and a terminal line suff'used with dark brown ; cilia white, with a 

 brown line through them : the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, a diffused postmedial 

 line on costal area, and some points on costa towards apex. 



Hah. Mexico, Coatepec {Broohs), 1 S ; Guatemala, Vera Paz 

 (Champion), 2 $; Panama, Bugaba {Chamiiion), 1 S ', Colombia, 

 Bogota (Stevens), 1 (5 type ; Brazil, 1 S , Amazons. Exp. 46- 

 54 millim. 



Page 454. 



778 a. Agrotis ecstrigata, n. sp. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 13.) 



(5' . Head and thorax black ; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous. 

 Fore wing ochreous suff'used with purplish red and fuscous especially 

 on costal and medial areas ; the basal area more ochreous, the 

 terminal area ochreous with fine black streaks on the veins and 

 broader streaks in the interspaces; an indistinct double, waved, ante- 

 medial line filled in with greyish ; orbicular and reniform very 

 small, defined by black, open above and below, the former round ; 

 faint traces of a double, waved, postmedial line, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the streaks in interspaces 



