MICEAGROTIS. EUXOA. . 153 



incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4 ; some pale points 

 on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line defined by the brown 

 suffnsion on its inner side and blackish on outer, bent outwards to 

 apex, angled inwards at discal fold, then excurved ; a terminal 

 series of black and white points. Hind wing ochreous white, the 

 costal and terminal areas suffused with brown ; a terminal series of 

 blackish striae ; the underside with black discoidal spot and indistinct 

 dentate postmedial line. 



Hah. Bii. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (Beifon), 1 c? fype. E.v^^ 

 26 millim. 



Genus EUXOA. ^ 



■ Type. 



Euxoa, Hiibn. A erz. p. :209 (1S27) decora. 



Ehi/acia, Hubn. Verz. p. 2U!) (1827) /iicipeht. 



Mimezis, Hiibu. Verz. p. 210 (1827) decora. 



il/efery/a, Hiibn. Verz. p. 223 (1827) vit/a. 



Exarnis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 22.5 ( 1827) ohclisca. 



Scotia., Hiibn. Verz. p. 22(i (1827) cinerea. 



Brotis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 22{) (1827) nigvicaiu. 



Agronomu , H libn. Verz. p. 227 ( 1 827 ) crassa. 



Georijx, Hiibn. Verz. p. 227 (1827) segetis. 



Telonici, Hiibn. Verz. p. 227 (1827) cursoria. 



Orthodcs, Gruen. Noct. i. p. 371 (1852) t-nigrum. 



Tetrapyrgia, Wlk. xxxiii. p. 71 1 (1865) alhinasus. 



Elegardri, Wlk. xxxiii. p. 712 ( 18()5) alhinasus. 



Plconecto'poda , Grote, Bull. Buif. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. loC) (1873)... Icvisi. 



Orbifront:, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p. 187(1877) singidari.?. 



Carncadcs, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 4 (1883), nee Bates, Col. 



1869 mcerens. 



Chorizagrotiii, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxviii. p. 98 (1890) . auxiliaris. 



Iihi::agroti--<, Smith. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxviii. p. 103 (1890) . acclivis. 



Agrotis, Hiibn. Tent, ined segetis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 in front, the 3rd moderate; f'ron.s with truncate conical prominence with 

 raised i-im ; vestiture hairy ; tibi;c strongly spined ; j^ro- and metathorax with 

 rather spreading crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and .5 from close to angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to forni the areole. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; male with the claspers bifurcate. 



Sect. I. (Jgroi/oma). Antennjc of male bipectinate to apex, with long brandies. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate, elliptical. 

 a. Fore wing with the orbicular large. 



a\ Fore wing with the veins defined bj' whitish streaks, ohesa. 

 b' . Fore wing with the vein.s not defined by whitish 

 streaks, 

 a'-. Fore wing \\ith the veins streaked with white... polgbcla. 

 b~. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with white . crccssa. 

 ■ h. Fore wing with the orbicular small. 



rt\ Fore wing with the antemedial line angled outwards 



below the clavii'orm graslini. 



I)\ Fore wing with tlic antemedial line not angled out- 

 wards below the clavifurm la.^serrei. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicnlar oblique, elliptical rugifrons. 



