184 NOCTuiDiE. 



Bright reddish chestnut ; palpi dark at sides ; collar pale with a 

 black line through it. Fore wing short and square, with a broad 

 white costal fascia from base to postmedial line, usually with a 

 black fascia below it ; the ante- and postmedial lines single, in- 

 distinct, and curved ; the submarginal line almost obsolete ; 

 orbicular and reniform small with white outline ; claviform almost 

 obsolete ; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing white, 

 sometimes with a reddish tinge. 



Larva brown ; the ventral area yellow ; fine dark lines on dorsal 

 area ; stigmata black. 



Hah. N. America; Europe; S. Africa ; Japan; Sikhim ; Ceylon. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



1632. Agrotis conformis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885 ; p. 349, pi. 9 



fig-. 5; C. #& no. 1984 



cT . Uniform ochreous ; the hind wing ochreous white. 

 Hah. Quetta. Exp. 38 millim. 



1633. Agrotis cespitis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 349, pi. ix, 



fig. 4 ; C.8f S. no. 1983. 



c? . Pale ochreous ; collar with a line through it. Fore wing 

 with indistinct double subbasal ante- and postmedial waved lines 

 and waved submarginal line ; orbicular, reniform, and claviform 

 with indistinct dark outlines ; a marginal dark line. Hind wing 

 ochreous white. 



Hah. Quetta. Exp. 32 millim. 



Sect. IV. (Chera). Antennae of male minutely ciliated. 

 A. Hind wing with the apex slightly produced. 



1634. Agrotis tenuis, Bull III. Het vii, p. 57, pi. 127, fig. 12. 



S • Head and thorax bright chestnut-red ; abdomen paler. 

 Fore wing chestnut-red ; the orbicular and reniform large and on 

 a dark patch ; the postmedial waved line indistinct ; the sub- 

 marginal line regularly curved, except that it is bent inwards below 

 the costa. Hind wing pale red, the cilia chestnut. Underside of 

 fore wing fuscous, the costal and outer areas reddish ; hind wing 

 pale reddish, the costal area darkest ; a cell-spot and indistinct 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Laka, Kangra, N".W. Himalayas. Exp. 40 millim. 



B. Hind wing ivith the apex rounded. 



1635. Agrotis descripta, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 51, pi. iv, fig. 11 



(1864). 

 Cerastis subdolens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 181. 

 Graph iphora basistriga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 54; C. 8f S 



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