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Sect. II. (Exarnis.) Antennae of male bipectinate with short fasciculate 

 branches, the apical part serrate. 



A. Hindwing white, the terminal area often tinged with 



brown. 

 a Forewing with the veins of terminal area defined 

 by pale dentate marks. 

 a l Forewing with the clavif orm pointed at extremity spinifera 

 b ' Forewing with the claviform rounded at extre- 

 mity .. obeliscaab. fictilis. 



b Forewing with the veins of terminal area not 



defined by pale dentate marks obelisca. 



B. Hindwing entirely suffused with brown tibetanu. 



1622. Euxoa spinifera, Hubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett Noct. f. 389 (1827). 



Telmia spinula, Hubn.. Verz., p. 228 (1827). 



Agrotis bkonica, Koll. Hugel's Kashmir, iv., p. 480 (1848"). 



„ exigua, Koll. Hugel's Kashmir, iv. ; p. 481 (1848). 



„ spiculifera , Guen. Noct. 1, p. 266 (1852 ■. 



„ aristifera Guen, Noct. 1, p. 266 (1852). 



„ ferina, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl.jllO, f. 12 (1874 . 



„ hodnoe, Oberth. Et. Ent. hi., p. 45, pi. 5, f. 8. (1878). 

 1622a. Euxoa obelisca. Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776), Hubn. Samml. 

 Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 123. 



Noctua puris, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 416 (1827). 



praticola, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 567 (1827). 

 fictilis, Hubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett Noct. f. 710 (1827). 

 Agrotis villiersii, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1837, p. 173, pi. 8, ff. 1'2. 

 „ declarant, Wlk„ x, 347 (1856). 

 Head and thorax fuscous mixed with grey ; tegulae with blackish medial 

 line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-brown. Forewing purplish-brown, 

 the inner and terminal areas paler ; the costal area suffused with white to the 

 postmedial line ; a black streak below base of cell ; an indistinct sub-basal line, 

 curved, from costal to submedian fold ; a double waved antemedial line from 

 subcostal nervure to vein 1 ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, grey-white defined by black, their centres slightly defined 

 by brown, the cell before and between them suffused by blackish, the orbicu- 

 lar oblique elliptical ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, indistinct, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line pale, defined by slight dentate dark marks on inner side ; the area beyond 

 it darker except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 

 4*3 ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing white, the veins and 

 termen tinged with brown, more strongly in female ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal spot. 



ab. 1 fictilis. Forewing with the veins of terminal area defined by pale dentate 

 marks. Head, thorax and forewing usually much more ochreous. 





