182 nocttjid^;. 



1622. Agrotis biconica, A"o//. HiigeVs Kaschmir,iv, p. 480. 

 Agrotis exigua, A'o//. HiigeVs Kasehmir, iv, p. 481. 

 Agrotis spiculifera, Guen. Noct. i, p. 266. 



Agrotis aristifera, Guen. Noct. \, p. 266 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 

 pi. 147, fig. 5; C. $8. no. 1981. 



Differs from segetis in having the subbasal ante- and postmedial 

 lines of the fore wing almost or quite obsolete ; the submarginal 

 line strongly dentate, with dark streaks on it ; the orbicular elongate, 

 with a dark streak from it to the reniform ; the clavif orm very 

 elongate and filled in with black. 



Hah. S. Africa ; ]N\W. Himalayas ; Punjab ; Sikhim ; throughout 

 the Bombay and Madras Presidencies; Ceylon. Exp. 38 millim. 



1623. Agrotis ypsilon, Pott, Naturf. xi, p. 141. 



Noctua suffusa, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii ; p. 157 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 147, fig. 6; C. Sf 8. no. 2001. * 

 Plialasna idonea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii, pi. 275 h. 

 Bombyx spinula, Esp. 8ch?nett. iii, pi. 63, figs. 6, 7. 



Differs from segetis in the fore wing being more suffused with 

 brown, and with a black streak beyond the reniform ; the sub- 

 marginal line dentate, with two black streaks on it below the apex. 

 Hind wing more or less suffused with fuscous brown. 



Hah. Universally distributed, except 8. America. Exp. 42-56 

 millim. 



1624. Agrotis ochracea, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 657 ; C. $ S. no. 2130. 

 Graphiphora viaria, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 412. 



Hadena ruptistriga, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 739 ; C. fy 8. no. 1941. 

 Graphiphora frontalis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 35 ; Hmpsn. III. 

 Het. ix, pi. 161, figs. 20, 21 ; C. 8f 8. no. 2013. 



Oehreous, grey-brown, or red-brown ; palpi dark at sides. Pore 

 wing with double subbasal and antemedial waved lines ; the 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata large in the form ruptistriga, with 

 a black spot between them and a triangular black spot before the 

 orbicular, the reniform often filled in with grey or chestnut ; a 

 diffused angled medial fuscous band; a double lunulate curved 

 postmedial line ; a submarginal pale line and marginal crenulate 

 dark line. Hind wing fuscous brown or red-brown. 



Hob. Eawal Pindi ; DharmsaJa ; Thandiani ; Sikhim ; Ceylon. 

 Exp. 41 millim. 



1625. Agrotis olivascens, n. sp. 



Reddish olive; palpi chestnut at sides. Pore wing with a slight 

 dark streak below median nervure from base ; orbicular pale ; reni- 

 form a pale lunule ; the postmedial double lines composed of a 

 series of indistinct lunules with specks on the nervules beyond 

 them. Hind wing pale fuscous ; cilia of both wings oehreous. 

 Underside with cell-spot and postmedial line to hind wing. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 38 millim. Type 6 in coll. Elwes, $ in B. M. 



