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terminal lino vaguo ; the hinder margin marked with black dots : inferior wings 

 uniformly grey with whitish fringes preceded by vague black dots ; beneath they 

 are whiter with a well-marked cellular spot and median shade. Thorax very 

 robust, grey mixed with black, with a blackish line on the anterior part of the 

 collar. The head is darker, and so are the palpi, the last joint of which is long and 

 truncated. Antennas strong, pectinated. 



Agbotis ceropachoides, Guenee, n. s. 



Alee anticce pulverece, gy^iseo-mhvirescentes, punctis terminalibiis nigris, stihtus 

 albidce, litura media nigricanti : posticce grisece, fimbria albida, atomis 

 nigris ; thorax griseus ; antenncB pectinatce. 



I have only one example of this Agrotis, which at first sight has the appearance 

 of a Cymatophora allied to fiavicornis. Superior wings somewhat dark grey, but 

 entirely covered with long sulphur-coloured or greenish scales which obliterate all 

 markings save the large black dots on the hinder margin ; however, with attention, 

 one is able to see traces of the reniform stigma, and it is possible that, in better 

 marked individuals, the other markings would be visible ; the fringe is long, grey, 

 with the extremity white : the inferior wings are unifoi'mly grey, with the fringes 

 likewise long, whitish, divided by a dark line : beneath, all the wings are greenish- 

 grey, powdered with black atoms on the costa; the superior have in addition, under 

 the costa near the middle, a vague median cellular blotch, and a black dot at the 

 base of the bristle. The thorax is broad, quadrate, darker grey than the wdugs, 

 like the head, without any line. Palpi very hairy ; the third joint thin, lost amid 

 the hairs of the second. Antennae long, acute, and furnished with long ciliated 

 laminaj. 



Genus Eumichtis, Walker. 



Ettmichtis sistens, Guenee, n. s. 



Ala integrcB : anticce suhvirescenti-grisece, lineis mediis serratis nigris, 

 subterminali pallida, maculis bene notatis, orbiculari rotunda, reniformi 

 magna, claviformi exigiia : posticce grisece, lunulis marginalibus nigris. 



The facies of this species is somewhat ambiguous, and its definite position de- 

 pends upon the discovery of the larva. Perhaps it should be placed in the Hade- 

 nidcc near H. sodce. At present it appears best to locate it in its present position. 

 It has some affinity with Mamestra alhicolon. 



Not larger than H. sodce. The thorax and superior wings testaceous-grey, with 

 a greenish appearance ; all the markings are well defined, especially the elbow line, 

 which is formed of little black lunules slightly separated ; the two ordinary spots 

 are large, grey encircled with black ; the orbicular is round, marked with a sub- 

 costal black dot ; the reniform broad, filled in with black below ; beneath it it is 

 the median shade which forms a series of zig-zags to the inner margin ; the sub- 

 terminal line is slender, pale, sometimes preceded by small isolated black dots ; 

 other dots, somewhat lunulate, precede the concolorous fringe : inferior blackish- 

 grey, with terminal black dashes. Collar with a slight black line. Antenna? thick, 

 and, with the lens, thickened ciliated denticulations are perceptible. Abdomen 

 without crests. 



