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fuscous brown band on its inner side, interrupted below costa, some brown 

 beyond it ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing whitish tinged with 

 brown, especially towards termen and inner margin ; the veins brown ; cilia 

 white with a brown line near base ; the underside white, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, a curved postmedial 

 series of short streaks on the veins, a terminal series of points. 



ab. 1. Forewing wioh the markings indistinct. 



Habitat.— Europe ; Canaries ; Armenia ; Asia Minur ; Syria ; Persia ; W. 

 Turkestan ; E. Turk>stan ; Amur; Kashmir : Kokser, liarra Larcha, Dras ; 

 Punjab, Kawal Pindi. Exp. 44-5n mill. 



16266. Euxoa islandica. Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit , 1867, p. 232 ; Hmpsn Cat. 

 Lep. Phal. B. M. iv, p. 299, pi. 66, f. 15. 

 Agrotis rossica, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1881, p. 419 ; Alph. Rom. 



Mem. v, p. 138, pi. 7, f. 3 

 Agrotis karschi Grseser, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1889, p. 253. 

 „ nigra, Staud. Iris, ix, p. 251 (1896). 



Head and thorax dark-brown mixed with grey-brown, the head and part 

 of tegulse in front of the black medial line often whitish ; abdomen grey- 

 brown, the anal tuft pale fulvous. Forewing grey-brown, often much suffused 

 with fuscous-brown ; an irregular blackish streak below basal part of cell ; the 

 sub-basal line double, obsolescent, interrupted, extending from costa to vein 1 ; 

 the antemedial line double, angled inwards on median nervine, then obliqi;e 

 and excurved below cell and vein 1 ; the claviform well developed, or large, 

 defined by black, the obicular and reniform grey-brown or whitish, the 

 former round or somewhat elliptical, the latter moderate, the cell before and 

 between the stigmata and the area just beyond the reniform blackish ; the 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, incurved in discal fold, excurved 

 beyond lower angle of cell, then oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, angled 

 slightly outward at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of dentate 

 marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing white 

 tinged with brown, the veins, a slight discoidal mark, the costal and terminal 

 areas brown ; the underside with the costal area strongly irrorated with brown 

 and with a distinct discoidal point. 



Habitat. — Iceland; Russia; Mongolia ; Siberia ; Kashmir, Kuijar, Nubra. 

 Exp. 3.5—38 mill. 



Section IV. (Chorisagrotis) — Antennas of male minutely serrate and fasci- 

 culate. 



A. Forewing dark fuscous brown intracta. 



B. Forewing ochreous tinged with rufous ... xanthiodes. 



1628. Euxoa intracta, Wlk. x. 346 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. 



iv, p. 315, pi. 67, f. 6. 



Spcelotis ambigua, Butl. 111. Het. B. M., vii, p. 54, pi. 128, ff. 10-11 (1889). 



Habitat. — Japan ; W. China ; Kashmir ; Punjab; Nepal ; Tibet, Yatung ; 

 Sikhim. 



