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Show 350 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [M border. Underside as above ; lines on fore wing obsolete. Body brownish ochreous, anal tuft brighter ochreous ; antennae and legs above dark brown, with pale ochreous bands. Expanse ly4^ inch. Llab. Punjab hills. In coll. F. Moore. Genus ACOSMETIA, Stephens. A C O S M E T I A N E B U L O S A , n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 13.) Upperside pale ochreous-brown : fore wing darkest, with several transverse indistinctly darker waved narrow fasciae; some pale spots on costal edge near the apex. Underside paler. Expanse 1 inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. ACOSMETIA NIGRESCENS, n. sp. Upperside dark brown: fore wing somewhat greyish brown, with an indistinct black spot in middle of the cell, a streak at its end, a transverse discal waved line, and a broad outer pale band, which is pale-bordered above the posterior angle and is continued along the posterior border: hind wing with blackish-brown outer border. Thorax above blackish brown. Underside uniform brown. Expanse ly1^ inch. Hab. Bombay. In coll. F. Moore. Fam. NOCTUID^E. Genus A G R O T I S , Ochs. A G R O T I S QUADRISIGNA, n. sp. Male and Female. Fore wing grey, crossed by a black subbasal double sinuous line, an antemedian line, an irregular waved post-median line, and a submarginal series of ochreous spots, bordered on both sides by a black dentate point, a marginal row of minute black dots, orbicular and reniform marks black-lined, a broad quadrate black dentate mark below the orbicular spot; hind wing and abdomen paler grey, whitish at the base. Thorax, palpi, and legs grey, with black speckles; tarsi with black bands. Expanse ly4^ inch. Hab. Solun, Punjab ; Deyra. In coll. F. Moore. Allied to A. labyrinthica, Staudinger, and to A. placida. AGROTIS COSTIGERA, n. sp.. Male and Female. Fore wing dark purple-brown, the basal and discal areas suffused with grey ; costal border pale purplish ochreous ; a transverse basal, antemedian, and a postmedian sinuous black pale-centred line ; orbicular and reniform spots black-lined, dark-centred, and with a pale ochreous inner border, the reniform slightly angled at the upper end of its inner border; an oval black mark below the cell; a pale ochreous submarginal line, with irregular alternate purple-brown and reddish inner border; a marginal row |