698 CATALOGUE OP 



orbicular and reniform marks large blackish-bordered ; the former 

 nearly round; the latter very slightly excavated on the outer side, 

 its disk partly brown ; a lanceolate blackish-bordered mark behind 

 the orbicular; a very irregular submarginal brown band containing 

 a cinereous zigzag line ; marginal luuules brown. Hind wings 

 white ; veins and marginal line pale brown. Length of the body 

 10 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



Closely allied to A. obliviosa (C. L. H. x. 340), but the lanceo- 

 late mark is broader. 



a. Shanghai. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



Agrotis intaminata. 



Mas. Cinerea ; palpi suberecti, articulo 2o extus nigro, So 

 minimo ; abdomen basi apiceque nigricante-cinereum ; alee 

 anticce nigro conspersce, fasciis duabus, lineis duabus dentatis 

 plagaque costali nigris, punctis costalibus albis ; posiicce albce* 

 subhyalince. 



Male. Cinereous, stout. Body whitish beneath. Palpi stout, 

 nearly vertical, not rising higher than the head ; second joint black 

 on the outer side ; third conical, not more than one-sixth of the 

 length of the second. Antennae indistinctly pubescent. Thorax 

 and fore wings black-speckled. Abdomen blackish, cinereous at 

 the base and at the tip, extending a little beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs blackish above ; tips of the tarsal joints whitish. Fore wings 

 with two incomplete black bands, which are accompanied by some 

 incomplete dentate black lines; a black patch and some whitish 

 points on the costa near the tip ; marginal points black, transversely 

 elongated. Hind wings white, slightly hyaline and iridescent. 

 Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



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



Agrotis alligata. 



Mas. Pallide cinereo-cervina ; palpi oblique asceridentes, articulis 

 la 2aque fusco fasciatis, Sa longi-conico ; antennce subpectin- 

 atce ; thorax fusco fas ciatus ; alee anticce nigro subconsperscs, 

 dimidio exteriore cervino, lineis tribus angulosis nigricanti- 

 bus, orbiculari fusiformi nigricante marginata, reniformi 

 nigro submarginata disco fusco, linea submarginali cinerea 

 denticulata ; postica albce, lunulis marginalibus fuscis. 



