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Agrotis obscura, Staud. Cat. Lep. ii., p. 86 (1871). 



„ cespitis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. oc. 1885, p. 340, pi. 9, f. 5. 

 „ sagittata, Staud. Iris., ix., p. 249 (1896). 

 „ currens, Staud. Iris., ix., p. 249 (1896). 

 „ vaga, Staud. Iris , ix., p. 250 (1896). 

 Habitat. — Europe ; Asia Minor ; W. Turkistan ; E. Turkistan ; 

 Mongolia ; Tibet ; Afghanistan ; Quetta. Exp. 34-38 mill. 



1633. a. Eqxoa nyctopis. Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., iv, p. 250, pi. 63, 

 f. 30 (1903). 



Head and thorax reddish-brown irrorated with white ; pectus brown and 

 grey ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-brown. Forewing reddish 

 brown, the basal area irrorated with grey ; a double, waved sub-basal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, somewhat oblique antemedial 

 line ; claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform fuscous 

 defined by black, the former round, the latter with whitish annulus ; traces 

 of a waved medial line ; the postmedial line double, dentate and produced 

 to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; a whitish subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate 

 at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond is tinged with fuscous ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hindwing whitish tinged 

 with brown, especially on terminal area ; the veins brown ; the cilia white 

 with a brown line at base ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a dark discoidal point, traces of a curved postmedial ling and diffused 

 dark subterminal band. 



ab. 1. Thorax with the ground-colour black-brown ; forewing dark-brown 

 with the double lines filled in with whitish. 



Habitat. — Kashmir, Dras, Kuijar. Exp. 40 mill. 



1626. EUXOA BREVIRAMI. 



1626. a. Euxoa conspicua, Htibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. Noct. ff. 718-9 

 (1827). 



Agrotis agricola, Boisd. Ind. Meth. Add., p. 3 (1829). 



„ lycarum, Herr. Schaff. Eur. Schmett. Noct. ii, p. 333, ff. 122 — 4 



(1846). 

 „ squalida, Ev. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1856, ii., p. 181. 

 Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and irrorated with black ; tegula; 

 with blackish medial line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey, dorsally 

 suffused with fuscous brown. Forewing grey, suffused with reddish-brown 

 and irrorated with fuscous ; a double waved sub-basal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; a double waved antemedial line ; claviform slightly outlined 

 with black ; orbicular and reniform large, grey, defined by black, often with 

 fuscous centres, the former oblique elliptical ; a diffused waved medial line ; 

 the postmedial line double, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a pale subterminal 

 line, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate on veins 4'3, defined by a dentate 



