696 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Fawn-colour, pale cinereous beneath. Palpi very 

 pilose. Antenna? pectinated for nearly two-thirds of the length from 

 the base. Thorax with an interrupted black band in front. Abdo- 

 men and under side testaceous. Fore wings somewhat darker along 

 the exterior border ; basal half line, interior line and exterior line 

 black, denticulated, the last one somewhat bent ; submarginal line 

 pale, denticulated ; marginal lunules black; orbicular and reniform 

 marks large, black-bordered ; the latter slightly excavated, with a 

 greyish brown disk. Hind wings white, semihyaline ; marginal 

 line brown, pale testaceous towards the interior angle. Length of 

 the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Ceylon. In Mr. Layard's collection. 



Agrotis repulsa. 



Mas et fcem. Fusca ; palpi oblique ascendentes, articulo So 

 conico ; antennae maris subpectinatce ; alee anticce nigricante 

 conspersa? et nebu.losa?, linea antemedia undulata fusiformi 

 postica et liturarum marginibus obscure fuscis ; posticce alba, 

 iridescentes, subhyalinm, fuscescente submarginata, venis 

 fuscis, 



Male and female. Brown, pale cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 obliquely ascending, not rising higher than the vertex ; second joint 

 pilose; third conical, about one-fourth of the length of the second. 

 Antennae of the male slightly pectinated to nearly two-thirds of the 

 length. Abdomen brownish cinereous, extending beyond the hind 

 wings. Fore wings blackish-speckled, more or less blackish-tinged ; 

 a dark brown slightly undulating line on the inner side of the orbi- 

 cular mark, contiguous to a dark brown incomplete fusiform ringlet; 

 orbicular and reniform marks large, bordered with dark brown ; 

 marginal points black. Hind winys white, iridescent, slightly hya- 

 line ; exterior border slightly tinged with brown ; veins brown. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



It has some resemblance to A. aversa, but the fore wings are 

 much darker. 



a, b. South Hindostan. Presented by M. J. Walhouse, Esq. 



Agrotis conspurcata. 



Fcem. Cinereo-nigra ; palpi stibascendentes, articulo 3o conico ; 

 thorax linea transversa nigra subarcuata ; alee anticce apud 



