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with brown. Underside white, the terminal area of forewing suffused with 

 fuscous, of hindwing towards costa only. 



ab. 1 squalid/or. Rather paler ; forewing brownish grey, the markings more 

 distinct ; hindwing with the terminal ai*ea brownish in male. 



ab. 2 squalorum. Hindwing of male with the veins only tinged with brown, 

 and in female the terminal area. 



Habitat. — S. E. Russia ; Armenia ; Syria ; Persia ; W. Turkistan ; W. 

 Siberia ; E. Turkistan ; Kashmir, Dras : Exp. 36 — 40 mill. 



1628c. Euxoa peperida, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv, p. 329, pi. 67, f. 

 20 (1903). 



Head and thorax grey-white pencilled with brown ; palpi blackish at sides 

 except at tips ; tegulse with medial black line ; abdomen brownish-grey. 

 Forewing grey-white irrorated with black ; a rufous shade in, beyond, and 

 below end of cell ; the subbasal line represented by points on costa and 

 median nervure ; the antemedial line indistinct, waved, with more prominent 

 points on costa, median nervure and vein 1 ; hardly a trace of orbicular or 

 reniform ; a slight fuscous shade at lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line 

 indistinct, dentate, with more prominent points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line hardly 

 defined by a very slight shade on inner side ; a terminal series of indistinct 

 dark points. Hindwing white, the veins, inner and terminal areas suffused 

 with brown ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a post- 

 medial series of minute points on the veins. 



Habitat. — Kashmir, Goorais Valley. Exp. 42 mill. 



1628d. Euxoa nyctina, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M., iv, p. 336, pi. 67, f. 

 29 (1903). 



£ Fuscous brown ; head and thorax slightly mixed with grey. Forewing 

 narrow, the margins subparallel, the apex rounded ; slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the sub-basal line represented by a few black scales below costa and 

 cell ; traces of an antemedial line oblique from costa to submedian fold where 

 it is angled; orbicular and reniform defined by blackish, the former rounded, 

 open above ; the postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line only defined by difiused 

 blackish suffusion < n inner side, curved ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hindwing pale fuscous brown ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown, a diffused, curved postmedial line. 

 Habitat— Kumaon, Ralam Valley, 12,000'. Exp. 36 mill. 



(To be continued.') 



