702 CATALOG 0E OF 



tarsi with cinereous tips. Fore wings with three blackish lines; 

 first line double, composed of lunules on the inner side of the 

 orbicular mark; second and third denticulate ; second on the inner 

 side of the reniform, less concise than the third, which is contiguous 

 to the outer side of the reniform ; a few exterior short black streaks ; 

 submarginal line cinereous, indistinct, deeply undulating, bordering 

 the inner side of a blackish patch ; marginal points black, very 

 minute ; orbicular short elliptical, not oblique, with a blackish disk 

 and a deep black border; a fusiform posterior deep black ringlet; 

 reniform large, partly bordered with deep black, emitting a deep 

 black lanceolate streak from its outer side ; three whitish costal 

 points towards the tip. Hind wings cinereous; veins and exterior 

 border brownish ; fringe whitish. Length of the body 9 lines ; of 

 the winus 20 lines. 



It has most resemblance to A. correcta, from which it may be 

 distinguished by the two acutely dentate black lines of the fore 

 wings beyond the reniform mark. 



a. Aneiteum, New Hebrides. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



Agrotis bisignata. 



Mas. Obscure cinerea ; palpi graciles, oblique ascendentes^articulo 

 So lanceolato ; antenna setulosce ; alee an tic ce annulo fusiformi 

 lineisque duabus angulosis nigricantibus, annulo lineaque la 

 antemediis, linea 2a postmedia cinereo pallido marginata, 

 linea anyutosa pallide cinerea strigisque nigricantibus sub- 

 marginalibus, orbicutari e annulo pallide cinereo, reniforrni 

 nigricante ; posticce alba, subhyalince, linea marginali pallide 

 fusca. 



Male. Dark cinereous, paler beneath. Palpi smooth, slender, 

 obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the vertex; third joint 

 lanceolate, shorter than the second. Antennae setulose. Abdomen 

 paler than the thorax, extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. 

 Joints of the tarsi blackish, with whitish tips. Fore wings with a 

 blackish fusiform ringlet near the base, and with two blackish zig- 

 zag lines ; first line antemedial, second beyond the reniform mark, 

 bordered with pale cinereous on the outer side ; a row of slender 

 blackish streaks intersecting the zigzag pale cinereous submarginal 

 line; middle part of the marginal space somewhat darker than the 

 ground hue ; marginal points black ; orbicular mark forming a 

 pale cinereous ringlet ; reniform blackish. Hind wings white, 



