156 NOCTUID^. 



subterminal line pale, angled" ovitwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 veins 4 and 3, with dentate black marks before its medial part more 

 or less prominently continued as streaks to termen ; a terminal 

 series of black points; cilia with a brown line through them. 

 Hind wing pure white. 



2 . Eather darker ; hind wing with the terminal area suft'used 

 with brown : a dark terminal line, and line, through the cilia. 



Ab. 1. lata. Larger, the antenna3 thicker, the fore wings more 

 variegated. — Mediterranean subregion. 



Ab, 2. golicei. Much paler ; fore wing with the ground-colour 

 ochreous-grey. — Aemekia.; Persia; C. Asia. 



Hah. Peaxce ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Hungakt, Frey Coll. ; 

 Spain: Sardinia; Italt (Leach); Sicily; Algiers: Greece; 

 S. Russia ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; W. Turkestan, 

 Tekke, 1 J , Perghana ; W. Siberia, Altai. Ex^^., c^ 44, 5 48 millim. 



272, Euxoa lasserrei. 



Luperina lasserrei, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 8('), pi. 11. tf. U!, 14 (1881): 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. pp. 154, 254. 

 Hcllojyhnhus tmctus, Christ, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 1()4 ; id. Roui. Mem. 



T. p, 25, pi. 2. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 

 Agrotis salmra, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 42. 



d" . Head and thorax grey and pale i-ed mixed with black ; paljn 

 blackish at tips ; tegulsc with black medial line; tarsi banded. with 

 black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale red irrorated 

 and in parts clouded with fuscous ; a waved subbasal line from 

 costa to siibmedian told : a waved antemedial line e.xcurved below 

 costa and angled outn^ards above inner margin to postmedial line ; 

 claviform well developed, defined by black : cell clouded with fuscous, 

 the orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former elliptical; 

 postmedial line dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line represented by 

 a series of whitish lunules with dentate dark marks before them, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and strongly dentate at veins 3 and 2 ; 

 the veins of terminal half with fuscous streaks ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules. Hind wing white; the veins slightly 

 tinged witli brown : some postmedial points on median nervules ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous ; a small 

 discoidal spot and a series of postmedial striae on the veins, 



Ab, 1. uncta. Fore wing not tinged with rufous. — Turkomania. 



Hah. Algeria, 1 S ; Tunis, Gabes type 't,sahnra in Coll. Mabille ; 

 Palestine; W. Turkestan, Turkomania. ^a*^/. 32 millim. 



273. Eiixoa graslini. 



Agrvtis f/rasUni, Ea tub. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1848, p. 70, pi. i. ff. 1,2; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Enr. Schmett., Noct. f. 623 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. 



Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with white ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous, 

 the costal area and veins whitish : an indistinct antemedial whitish 



