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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 351 of distinct black dentate marks ; some pale spots on costa near apex; hind wing cinereous-brown, palest at the base. Thorax and palpi dark purple-brown, abdomen and legs greyish brown, legs with brown bands. Expanse, 3 1T<L, $ 1 ^ inch. HaB. Solun, Punjab ; Cherra Punji, Assam. In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. Allied to A. christophi, Staudinger. AGROTIS JUNCTURA, n. sp. Male and Female. Fore wing pale purplish grey, the median area below the cell pale purplish red; two subbasal grey-bordered black streaks extending obliquely from within the cell to base of the sub-median vein, with blackish lower interspace ; orbicular spot large, outwardly oblique, grey ; reniform spot also large, black-lined, and extending below the cell, centre brown-streaked, interspaces black; a black conical mark below the orbicular spot; an indistinct black transverse discal sinuous line and outer row of points ; a marginal greyish-brown fascia terminating before the apex in a black streak : hind wing pale purplish cinereous. Thorax purule-grey ; collar, front of head, palpi, and legs brown-speckled ; abdomen cinereous-brown, tuft in male ochreous. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Dalhousie, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. Allied to A. hastifera, Donzel. AGROTIS MODESTA, n. sp. Female. Greyish cream-colour : fore wing with an indistinct black subbasal, antemedian, and a postmedian sinuous double line ; an orbicular and reniform black-lined spot, a short narrow conical mark below the cell, and a marginal row of dots. Body and legs greyish, tarsal bands brown. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Cashmir. In coll. F. Moore. Nearest allied to, but quite distinct from, A. aquilina. TIRACOLA, n. g. Fore wing long, narrow, costa slightly arched towards the end, apex acute ; exterior margin oblique, convex, and sinuous ; cell long ; first subcostal branch emitted at half length of the cell, second at three fourths its length, trifurcate, third emitted at one third beyond base of the second, and fourth at about one half from base of second, fifth from end of the cell and touching the third near its base ; discocellular deeply concave, upper radial from angle close to upper end of the cell, lower radial from angle near lower end of the cell; upper median from angle above and middle median from end of the cell, third at one third before its end ; submedian concave near its base. Hind wing triangular, apex convex; exterior margin oblique, recurved, slightly sinuous; cell short; two subcostal branches from end of cell; discocellular very slender, angled inward in the middle, a |