454 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL 111 STORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVI. 



1659/. — MlCEAGKOTlS AXYUDES, Hinpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. IV., 

 p. 150. 1903. 



Micragrotis axylides 5 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with fuscous ; patagia with a purplish tinge ; 

 tarsi with black and pale rings ; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous brown. 

 Forewing greyish ochreous suffused with purplish brown ; the veins streaked 

 with blackish ; two fine pale streaks in base of cell ; the antemedial line double 

 the inner line indistinct, dentate and angled strongly inwards on subcostal and 

 madian nervures and vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform small with blackish centres 

 and pale annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell between them and 

 area above it suffused with fuscous black ; traces of an oblique shade from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin : the postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing yellowish white, the costal area and termen .'•lightly tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Habdat.— Punjab, Mean Meer ; Sind, Bhug. Exp. $ 25, 9 30 mill. 



Genus Euxoa. Type. 



Euxoa, Hiibn., Verz., p. 209 (1827) decora. 



Rhyacia, Hi'ibn., Verz., p. 200 (1827) lucipeta. 



Mimetis, Hi'ibn., Verz., p. 210 (1827)... decora. 



Metaxyia, Hiibn , Verz.. p. 223 (1827) vitta. 



Exarnis, Hiibn., Verz,, p. 225 (1827) obelisca. 



Scotia, Hiibn., Verz., p. 226 (1827) cinerea. 



Broth. Hiibn., Verz., p. 226 (1827) nigricans. 



Agronoma, Hiibn., Verz., p. 227 (1827) .. crassa. 



Georyx, Hiibn., Verz., p. 227 (1827) segetis. 



Telmia, Hiibn., Verz., p. 227 (1827) curwria. 



Tetrapyrgia, Wlk., XXXIII, 711 (1S65) porphyricollis. 



Elegarda, Wlk., XXXIII, 712(1865) porphyricollis 



Pleoneetopoda, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., 1. p. 



136 (1873) levisi. 



Orbifrons, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. XXXVIII, p. 187 (1877) singularis. 

 Carmades, Grote, Can. Ent. XV, p. 4 (1*83), Nee. Bates Col. 



I860 meerens. 



Paragrotis, Pratt., Can. Ent. XV. p. 4 (1883) meerens. 



Chorizagrotis, Smith, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXXVIII, p. 



W (1800) - auxiUaris. 



