EUSOA. 157 



line acutely dentate inwards below cell and on vein 1, angled 

 outwards in submedian fold and more strongly above inner margin ; 

 claviform elongate, brown defined with dark brown ; orbicular 

 minute, elliptical, white with brown central point and defined by 

 dark brown ; reniform with fuscous centre and white annulus defined 

 bv dark brown ; the postmedial line brown defined by whitish on 

 outer side, minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved in discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; the subterminal 

 line indistinct, whitish, with dentate red-brown marks on inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond 

 it rather darker with terminal series of small black lunules : cilia 

 with a blackish line near extremity ; the costa somewhat excavate 

 beyond middle. Hind Aving wbite, the veins and a fine terminal 

 line brownish ; the underside with slight discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. Fore Aving with the cell and the area below and just 

 beyond it suffused with bright rufous. 



Hah. Fkance, "W. Coast, 3 J , 1 $ , Zeller & Leech Colls. ; 

 Brittany, Plonharnel (de Joannis), 2 c? , - $ • Kvj). 42 millim. 



Larva. On grasses growing on the sand-hills, feeding exclusively 

 on those which grow at the summits of the hills {de Joannis). 



*274. Euxoa rugifrons. (Plate LXI. fig. 3.) 



Agrofis rugifrong, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 42; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 152. 



(5 . Head and thorax pale rufous ; tegulae with black medial line ; 

 abdomen ochreous white. .Fore wing rufous, the costal area pale ; 

 the subbasal line represented by a black spot below mediau nervure ; 

 the antemedial line obsolete on costal area, excurved in interspaces 

 and defined by pale colour on inner side ; claviform defined by 

 black, elongate, narrow, with an oblique pale streak from its 

 extremity; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former 

 oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter with pale centre : post- 

 medial line indistinct, reduced to a series of small dentate marks, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, defined by some dark points on its inner side at middle ; 

 a terminal scries of dark points. Hind wing ochreous white with 

 rufous terminal line, the cilia white ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with rufous, a slight discoidal point and traces of 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Tunis, Gabes, type f J in Coll. Mal)ille. Exp. 34 millim. 



*275. Euxoa bcetica. 



Heliopkohicty hoe/icf/, Boisd. Icone.s, pi. 74. f. G (1830) ; Ilerr.-Schiift'. 

 Jschmett. Eur., Noct. f. 2'o ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 17<i. 



Head and thorax yellowish ; teguhc iind patagia with dark edges, 

 the former with dark medial line ; abdomen whitish. Fore wing 

 yellowish, the costal, inner, and terminal areas tinged with bluisli 



