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NOCTUID^. 
of the reniform spot (which is indicated by a black litura), a sigmoidal discal stripe, a subapical 
spot and zigzag submarginal line, all of raised white scales ; a black irregular line across the 
basal area ; two central slender black lines, the outer one deeply dentated ; a > -shaped black 
marking and two spots near the external angle ; costa black-spotted ; fringe white, spotted 
with brownish : secondaries sericeous greyish brown, with a broad pale-edged blackish outer 
border ; fringe pale ; margin black-dotted : thorax greenish grey ; abdomen sericeous whitish. 
Wings below whity brown, wdth a broad black-edged irregular discal band ; outer border 
broadly blackish; body below whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. 
Yokohama [Jonas ] . 
KOCTUID^. 
AGEOTIS, Ochs. 
Agrotis illoba. (Plate XLIV. fig. 7.) 
Agrotis illoba, Butler, Ann. Ma^. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 162 (1878). 
Nearly allied to A. agricola, but altogether of a duller and greyer tint ; the markings better 
defined ; a w^ell-marked waved dentate-sinuate discal dusky line ; submarginal area bounded 
internally by a very irregular zigzag pale line ; secondaries whiter than in A. agricola ; 
thoi’ax pearly greyish ; anal tuft testaceous: secondaries below with dusky costal and apical 
areas; a well-defined blackish discocellular spot. Expanse of w'ings 1 inch 10 lines. 
Hakodate [Whitely). 
Agrotis odiosa. (Plate XLIV. fig. 8.) 
Agrotis odiosa, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 162 (1878). 
Colour and general character of the reddish form of A. saucia, but smaller, the orbicular 
and reniform spots ill-defined and red ; the secondaries shining whity brown, with no distinct 
darker border and without the blackish dots on the veins below. Expanse of wings 1 inch 
8 lines. 
Yokohama [Jonas). 
HERMONASSA, Walker. 
Hermonassa cecilia. (Plate XLIV. fig. 9.) 
Hermonassa cecilia, Butler, A^in. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 164 (1878). 
Upper surface chocolate-brown: primaries darker than the secondaries; costal margin 
ferruginous ; orbicular and reniform spots and a spot below the median vein blackish, with 
ochreous margins partly edged with black ; costal and basal areas spotted with black, the 
interval between each two spots grey ; an oblique ochreous dash aeross the cell near the base ; 
