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1628a. Euxoa xanthiodes, Hnipsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., iv, p. 315,pl. 67 

 f. 7 (1903). 



<£. Head and thorax pale rufous; palpi and fore coxae redder; fore tibiae and 

 tarsi whitish in front ; abdomen reddish ochreous. Forewing ochreous suffused 

 with rufous ; an indistinct antemeduil line angled inwards in cell and on vein 1, 

 and outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin ; orbicular and reni- 

 form small, pule, indistinct, the former round, an obscure medial shade passing 

 between them ; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct minutely waved 

 subtermiual line, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. 

 Hindwing ochreous yellow, slightly tinged with fuscous brown except ontermen 

 and cilia. Underside of forewing tinged with fuscous to postmedial line except 

 on costal area ; hindwing yellow, the costal area tinged with rufous, an in- 

 distinct curved postmedial line. 



9. More olive-yellow and lees rufous in tone ; forewing with the markings 

 more distinct. 



Habitat — Kashmir, Barra Larcha, Goorais Valley. Exp. 38-40 mill. 

 Section V. (Rhiacja) Antenna? of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing pale red-brown irrorated with black, 



the stigmata well defined cirghisa. 



B. Forewing grey, the stigmata almost obsolete peperida. 



C. Forewing fuscous brown nyetina. 



1628/i. Euxoa cirghisa. 



Agrotis valksiaca, Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett., p. 109, pi. 351, ff. 3-4 

 (1842). nee Boisd. 

 Kirghisa, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1856, II, p. 219, pi. 1, f. 7. a. b. 

 Squalorwn, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1856, II, p. 22, Studf. Ins 1, 

 p. 218, pi. 10, f. 9. 

 „ Squalidior, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal, p. 146 (1902). 



Head and thorax very pale red-brown mixed with black : tegulse with medial 

 blackish line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen whitish tinged with red- 

 brown. Forewing pale red-brown strongly irrorated with black ; a waved 

 3ub-basal line from costa to submedian fold, a black spot on costa between it and 

 the antemedial line which arises from a costal spot, is angled inwards in cell 

 and on vein 1 and outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin ; clavi- 

 form with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former somewhat elliptical, a waved medial shade 

 passing between them ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, defined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks and with 

 blackish suffusion beyond it ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing 

 white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown ; in female wholly suffused 



