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Genus AGROTISIA, nov. 



Type, A. sulJiyalina. 



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

 middle of frons, the scales at extremity produced to a point in front, the 3rd 

 short, broadly sealed ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennse of male 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without distinct crests ; 

 tibige moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing 

 rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3590. Agrotisia subhyaliiia, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi above 

 and sidea of frons blackish ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen ochreous, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. Fore wiug 



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Fig. 184. — Agrotida subkyalina, (^ . \ 



ochreous irrorated with brown, the interspaces of discal area 

 semi-hyaline ; subbasal line represented by a dark striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line blackish, oblique, waved, interrupted ; 

 orbicular represented by a blackish point ; reniform a rather 

 diffused fuscous lunulate mark ; traces of a medial line diffused at 

 costa and inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, slightly defined 

 on outer side by ochreous, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; tlie 

 terminal area somewhat darker with faint traces of a curved dentate 

 subterminal line ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules ; cilia 

 ochreous with a dark line through them. Hind wing hyaline white, 

 he veins and a fine terminal line brown ; cilia white. 



Hah. Peru, Callao {J. J. Walker), 1 (S type ; Argentina, 

 Mendoza, La Paz {Bayne), 2 c? . E.vp. 44 millim. 



