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ab. 2 ruris. Head and thorax much greyer-brown, forewing grey-brown 

 irrorated with dark-brown and black ; no black below base of cell < r in cell . 

 the antemedial line complete and more strongly angled outwards above inner 

 margin ; hindwing more tinged and irrorated with brown. 



Habitat. — Europe; Algeria; Armenia; Asia Minor; W. Siberia; W. 

 Tdrkistan ; ? Amurland ; Kashmir ; Kuijar ; Nubra. Exp. 38-40 mill. 



1627. Euxoa tibetana, Moore, A. M. N. H. (5) 1. p. 233 (1878); id. 

 2nd Yarkand Mission, p. 10, pi. 1, f. 1G. 



Agrotis modesta, Moore P. Z. S. 1881, p. 351. 



„ monticola, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii., p. 183 (1894). 



Habitat. — Lahoul ; Leh ; Kashmir, Kajaori, Goorais Valley, Barra Larchu. 

 Exp. 38 mill. 



Sect III. (Euxoa.') Antenna? of male strongly serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Forewing with veins 3' 4* 6' 7 defined by pale streaks 



strongly indenting the subterminal line subtpinifera, 



B. Forewing with veins 3* 4* 6* 7 not defined by whitish 



streaks indenting the subterminal line. 

 a Forewing with the cell not filled in with black. 



a 1 Forewing with more or less prominent pale streak 



on median nervure « cursoria. 



b l Forewing without pale streak on median nervure. 

 a'~ Forewing reddish or fuscous brown. 



ai Hindwing brown, pale towards base nyctopis. 



b 3 Hindwing uniformly suffused with brown brerirami. 



b' 2 Forewing grey brown conzpicua. 



b. Forewing with the cell filled in with blackish idandica. 



1622 b. Euxoa subspinifera, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. iv., p. 205, 

 pi. 61, f. 19 (1903). 



$ Head and thorax ochreous mixed with white ; abdomen ochreous, the 

 ventral surface whitish irrorated with pale-brown. Forewing whitish suffused 

 with yellow-brown above submedian fold, in end of cell, and above veins 2 to 6 ; 

 the veins with slight dark streaks ; the costa irrorated with fuscous, with double 

 dark striae representing the sub-basal, ante and postmedial lines, and some white 

 points towards apex ; claviform elongate and defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black, the former very elongate and confluent with the 

 latter ; the subterminal line represented by a series of small whitish lunules, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia ochreous with a slight dark line through them. Hindwing 

 white, the veins and a fine terminal line ochreous 

 Habitat. — Punjab •. Ferozpur, Exp. 32 mill. 



1633. Euxoa cursoria, Kiifn. Berl. Mag. iii., p. 416 (1767); Hiibn. Samml. 

 Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 540. 



Noctua mixta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. hi., 2, p. 118 (1791). 



„ sagitta, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 59G (1827). 



