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NOCTtriD^. 



C. Fore wing with the orbicular •round. 



a. Fo)-e wing with the veins not streaked with white. 



«'. Fore wing witli the costal area and disk suffused witli 

 rufous. 



«-. Hind wing white batica. 



b-. Hind wing suffused with brown on terminal area . pierrcti. 

 b^. Fore wing with the costal area and disk whitish ... lanmrotensis. 



b. Fore wing with the veins streaked with white trijida. 



269. Eiixoa obesa. 



Aqrotis obesa, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 112 (1829) ; id. Icon. Lep. Eur. pi. 75. 

 'If. 1, 2; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 173, pi. 1(>: Herr.-Scliaff. Schniett. 

 Eur. ii. pi. 5. f. 22 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. ].")2. 

 Ayrotis lijHira, Rnibr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1848, p. 68. 

 Ayrotis scythd, Alph. Rom. Mem. v. p. 143 (1889). 



c5' . Head and thorax yellow-brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; abdomen white tinged with ochreous. Fore 

 wing yellow-brown, the interspaces suftused with fuscous brown 

 towards termen ; the subbasal line represented by black points 

 below costa and cell ; the antemedial line obsolete except in sub- 

 median interspace, where it is blackish and angled outwards in the 

 fold : claviform very large, somewhat quadrate, red-brown defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform red-ljrown, with ochreous annuli 

 defined by black, the former, large, diamond-shaped, and con- 

 nected with the reniform which is large ; the postmedial line 



.big. 38. — Eu.ioa ule<a, (^ . 



indistinct, blackish, defined by ochreous on outer side, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved round the reniform, then incurved ; a 

 subterminal series of ochreous lunules with dentate black marks on 

 their inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle : the veins of terminal area streaked witli black and 

 defined by pale streaks ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunnles. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and termen tinged with ochreous. 



2 . Hind wing with pale fuscous discoidal lunule and terminal 

 band, 



Ab. 1. «C!/<7(rt : paler ; the fore wing almost white. — S. Kussia ; 

 W. Asia : Persia. 



Hab. 8. France, 4 c? , 3 § , Frey it Leech Colls. ; 8paix ; Italy; 

 Algeria : S. Etjssia ; Armenia, 2 r? ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; Syria; 

 Persia; W. Turkestan, Turkomania. E.rj^. 30 milHm. 



