LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 699 



Male. Pale cinereous fawn-colour, whitish cinereous beneath. 

 Palpi obliquely ascending, not rising so hi^h as the vertex; first 

 and second joints with a brown band on the outer side; third 

 elongate-couical, about one-fourth of the length of the second. 

 Antennae slightly pectinated, except towards the tips. Thorax with 

 a slender brown band on the fore te^ulae. Abdomen pale cinereous, 

 slightly ridged, extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. Joints 

 of the tarsi brown, with cinereous tips. Fore wings with a few black 

 speckles; exterior half irregularly fawn-colour; three blackish 

 zigzag lines ; first line very near the base ; second on the inner 

 side of the orbicular mark, which is oblique, irregularly fusiform, of 

 the ground hue and blackish-bordered ; third line on the outer side 

 of the reuiform mark; the latter is of the ground hue, incompletely 

 blackish-bordered, with a brown disk, which is deeply notched on 

 its outer side ; some blackish streaks between the third line and the 

 submarginal line, which is cinereous and denticulated ; marginal 

 points blackish, rather large, the hindmost much elongated. Hind 

 wings white, iridescent, with a brown marginal line, which forms 

 four lunules and is attenuated and paler towards the interior angle. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Java. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board. 



Agrotis submarginalis. 



Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; palpi subascendentes, articulo So longi- 

 conico ; ala anticce nigro subconspersce, lineis duabus den- 

 ticulatis nigris, 2a subduplicata, line a mbmarginali albida, 

 plaga submarginali fusca, orbiculari jlavesceiite-cinereo nigro- 

 que marginata, reniformi nigricante brevi lata; posticce albce t 

 linea marginali fusca. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour, pale cinereous beneath. Palp 

 slightly ascending, extending a little beyond the head ; third joint 

 elongate-conical, about one- fourth of the length of the second. 

 Antennae minutely setose. Abdomen extending somewhat beyond 

 the hind wings. Fore wings with a few black speckles and with 

 two denticulated black lines ; first line on the inner side of the 

 orbicular mark which is oblique, elongate-oval, yellowish-cinereous, 

 with a darker disk and with a black border; second line incom- 

 pletely double, on the outer side of the reniform mark, which is 

 short, broad and blackish ; a whitish submarginal line traversing 



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