. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 692 Genus AGROTISIA, nov. Type, A. sulJiyalina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ad joint reaching to about middle of frons, the scales at extremity produced to a point in front, the 3rd short, broadly sealed ; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennse of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without distinct crests ; tibige moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not cre
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 692 Genus AGROTISIA, nov. Type, A. sulJiyalina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ad joint reaching to about middle of frons, the scales at extremity produced to a point in front, the 3rd short, broadly sealed ; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennse of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without distinct crests ; tibige moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6,7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3590. Agrotisia subhyaliiia, n. sp. S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi above and sidea of frons blackish; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen ochreous, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. Fore wiug /^^. Fig. 184.—Agrotida subkyalina, (^. \ ochreous irrorated with brown, the interspaces of discal area semi-hyaline; subbasal line represented by a dark striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish, oblique, waved, interrupted ; orbicular represented by a blackish point; reniform a rather diffused fuscous lunulate mark ; traces of a medial line diffused at costa and inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, slightly defined on outer side by ochreous, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; tlie terminal area somewhat darker with faint traces of a curved dentate subterminal line ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules; cilia ochreous with a dark line through them. Hind wing hyaline white, he veins and a fine terminal line brown ; cilia white. Hah. Peru, Callao {J. J. Walker), 1 (S type; Argentina, Mendoza,
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