398 NOCTUIDiE. 



Genus AGROPERINA, nov. 



Type, A. latcvitia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd siiort, porrect ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the latter with indistinctly double ridge- 

 like dorsal crest ; tibiiB moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests on basal segments, some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair. 

 Fore wins rather narrow, the apex rectangular, the termen obliquely curved 

 and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 froui upper r.ngle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Fore wing with small white lunule on outer edge of reniform. 

 a. Fore wing with white lunide in centre of reniform. 



ffi. Fore wing purplish red-brown suffused witli black-brown dubi/ans. 

 i\ Fore wing purplisii red-brown not s-ufFused with black- 

 brown cogifaia. 



h. Fore wing without white lunule in centre of reniform lateritia. 



B. Fore wing withont small white lunule on outer edge of 



reniform. 



a. Fore wing fuscous black illustra. 



h. Fore wing dark red-browu with two white points at lower 



extremity of reniform fervida. 



c. Fore wing not dark red-brown and without white points at 

 lower exti-emity of reniform. 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial area paler than the 



ground-colour except towards costa C07iradi. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial area concolorous. 

 a". Fore wing with the lines distinct, blackish. 



a?. Fore wing grey-white irrorated with rufous lutosa. 



Ifi. Fore wing fulvous yellow tinged with rufous helva. 



c^. Fore whig bright rufous inficita. 



b-. Fore wing with the lines pale, obsolescent morna. 



3227. Agroperina dubitans. (Plate CXVIII. fig. lo.) 



Mumcdra diihi/ans, Wlk. ix. •2o2 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 135. 



A'pamea inniqnata, Wlk. xi. 7'^9 (1857). 



Hadexa spu^ator, Grote, Dull. Buff. Soo. Nat. Sci. i. p. 190 (1873). 



Hadena spiUuirix, Grote, Check List Noct. p. 9 (1875). 



Hadena amanda, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 494 (1901). 



Head and thorax black-hrown tinged witli purple and mixed 

 ■with some grey hairs ; pectus with ochreous and brown hair ; tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen dark brown mixed with grey, 

 the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing black-brown tinged 

 with purple and sparsely irrorated with white ; subbasal line 

 represented by dark striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, oblique, waved ; claviform minute, faintly defined by 

 black ; orbicular small with slight grey unnulus defined by black, 

 oblique elliptical or elongate ; reniform with ochreous-white lunule 

 in centre and incomplete whitish annulus ; an indistinct waved 



