ErxoA. 155 



Larva. Mill. Icoiiograpliie, iii. p. 3U2, pi. 137. ff. l-o. 



Pale greenish, the dorsal area tinged with brown and with pale 

 dorsal line ; liead and thoracic shield brown. Pood-plant : flowers 

 of Pterotheca nemaucensis. 



*270. Euxoa polybela. (Plate LXV. fig. 1.) 

 Euxoa polyhela, de Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1903, p. 28. 



$ . Head, tegulse, and patagia olive-ochreous tinged with brown ; 

 palpi and sides of frons blackish ; thorax whitish ; abdomen 

 ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Pore wing with the apex 

 rather produced and acute, ochreous, the inner margin tinged with 

 rufous, the veins whitish defined by fine brown streaks ; a brown 

 patch below cell near base confluent with the brown claviform, both 

 marks being incompletel}- defined by black and with whitish streak 

 in submedian fold ; a short subbasal black streak above inner 

 margin ; orbicular and renit'orm brown, the veins on them white, 

 the former produced on outer side and confluent with the latter, 

 the former partially defined by black above and the latter on outer 

 side ; the subterminal line defined on inner side by a series of 

 prominent dentate brown marks with small triangular black spots 

 on them; a series of black striae just before termen ; cilia rufous, 

 with grey and black line through them. Hind wing whitish 

 irrorated with dark brown ; a brown discoidal lunule ; the inner 

 margin brown ; a terminal series of brown striiB ; the underside 

 with dark brown streak in base of cell, the discoidal lunule 

 prominent, with the discocellulars pale. 



Hah. Algeria, Philippeville, type t 5 i^ ^'oll. Joannis. Esp. 

 36 millim. 



OT 



71. Euxoa crassa. 



Noctua crassa, Treit. Scbmett. Eur. v. i. p. 166 (1826) ; Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 560; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 236, pi. 67. ff. 1, 2 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. 

 Aifrotis lata, Treit. Schinett. Eur. Suppl. x. p. 24 (1834); Herr.-Scliaff. 



' Schmett. Eur. ii. pi. 4. f. 20 & pi. (>. f. 29. 

 Agrotis qulickcl, Ersc-li. Ilor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. viii. p. 316 (1871) ; Fedtsch. 



Eeis.p.41, pi. 3. ff. 39, 40. 

 Agrotis hugtienini, Eiihl. Soc. Ent. 1891, p. 4. 



(5 . Head and thorax yellow-brown tinged witli fuscous ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tarsi banded Avith black ; abdomen ochreous 

 banded with fuscous, the base whitish. Fore wing pale ochreous, 

 suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown : a double waved black 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold filled in with ochreous ; 

 a similar antemedial line dentate outwards below costa and very 

 strongly above inner margin ; claviform well developed and outlined 

 with black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres, ])ale 

 annuli, and black outline, the former elliptical and often produced 

 on outer side, the latter large : postmedial line waved, black, defined 

 by ochreous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein -4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; 



