LEFIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 701 



suhdentatis fuscescente marginatis ; 2a nigricante punctata, 

 macula lanceolata fuscescente nigricante marginata, gutta 

 antica fuscescente annulo nigricante inclusa, reniformi magna 

 fusca nigricante marginata, strigis submarginalibus fusees- 

 centibus cuneatis ; posticce albce. 



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

 extending very little beyond the head ; second joint broad, brownish 

 on the outer side, except at the tip ; third minute. Antennae 

 moderately pectinated for two-thirds of the length from the base. 

 Thorax with a black band near the fore border. Abdomen cinereous, 

 extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. Fore wings with two 

 slightly undulating and dentate lines, which are brownish-bordered 

 and are very little paler than the ground hue ; a brownish blackish- 

 bordered lanceolate spot projecting from the outer side of the first 

 line; an elliptical blackish ringlet with a brownish disk in front of 

 the spot; reniform mark large, brown, with a blackish border near 

 the inner side of the second line, which has blackish points ; a row 

 of indistinct brownish cuneiform submarginal streaks ; marginal 

 lunules blackish, minute. Hind wings white. Length of the body 

 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



It has much resemblance to A. ex clamationis, but the orbicular 

 mark is very differently formed. 



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



Agrotis aneituma. 



Mas. Cinereo -fusca; palpi por recti, articulo 3o brevissimo; antenna 

 dimidio basalisubpectinatce ; thorax nigro fas ciatus ; abdomen 

 cinereum,pilosissimum ; alceanticce lineis tribusnigricantibus, 

 la e lunulis duplicatis, 2a 3aque denticulatis, strigis exteriori- 

 bus nigris, linea submarginali cinerea undulata, orbiculari 

 lituraque postica fusiformi atro marginatis, illius disco nigri- 

 cante, reniformi atro submarginata strigam lanceolatam atram 

 emittente, plaga marginali nigricante ; posticce cinerece, 



Male. Cinereous-brown, cinereous beneath. Palpi porrect, 

 extending very little beyond the head; second joint stout, pilose ; 

 third extremely short. Antennae slightly pectinated for half the 

 length from the base. Fore tegulae of the thorax with a slightly 

 arched deep black transverse line. Abdomen cinereous, very pilose, 

 extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. Le;zs blackish above ; 

 femora broadly fringed; tibiae with a whitish band ; joints of the 



