158 NOCTUID^. 



grey, the disk suffused with .rufous ; a black streak below base of 

 cell ; the antemedial line obsolete on costal area, angled outwards 

 below cell and more strongly above inner margin : claviform large, 

 deiiiied by black ; orbicular and reniform small, defined bj' black, 

 the former round ; postmedial line dentate, beut outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subtcrminal line pale, 

 defined by a series of dentate black marks before it, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points 

 and a series on the cilia. Hind wing white, the veins slightly 

 tinged with browr. ; traces of a diffused brown postmedial line on 

 costal half ; a terminal series of points. 



Hah. Spain, S.W. Coasts. Exp. 38 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



*27G. Euxoa pierreti. (Plate LXT. fig. 4.) 



Episema pierretii, Bugnion, Ann. Soc. Enl. Fr. 1837, p. 441, pi. 16. f. o ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. 

 HeliophoJiux luarsdeni, Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, ]i. 40, pi. i. f. 9. 



(S . Head and thorax whitish and pale rufous ; patagia with 

 white line followed by black scales round edges : tarsi ringed with 

 fuscous ; abdomen whitish, with ochreous dorsal bands. Fore wing 

 ochreous white suffused with pale rufous, the veins brown defined 

 by whitish ; subbasal line double, waved, interrupted in cell ; ante- 

 medial line double, angled outwards below costa, oblique to 

 submedian fold, then waved ; claviform defined by black : orbicular 

 small, round, white, defined by black ; reniform grey, defined by 

 white and black at sides only : postmedial line defined by whitish 

 on outer side, dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 angled inwards in discal fold, oblique below vein 4 ; subtcrminal line 

 whitish, defined on inner side by dentate dark marks, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and dentate on veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small dark luuules. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal half 

 suftused with brown ; the underside with small discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Egypf, Alexandria, type f S marsdeni in Coll. Baker. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



*277. Eiixoa lansarotensis. (Plate LXI. fig. 5.) 



Agrotis Icaicarolom^^, Rebel, Ann, Nat. Hofin. is. p. 52, pi. i. f. 5 (1894); 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. )). 147. 



(5 . Antennte rufous ; head white mixed with rufous ; tegulae 

 rufous tipped with white and with black medial line ; thorax white, 

 slightly mixed Avith rufous, and the patagia edged with rufous ; 

 abdomen white tinged with rufous. Fore wing white, the costal, 

 inner, and terminal areas slightly tinged with brown ; an oblique 

 black striga below base of cell ; the subbasal line represented by a 

 black point below costa ; the antemedial line obsolete except in 

 submedian interspace, where it is black and angled outwards ; clavi- 

 form moderate, pale rufous defined by black : orbicular small, round, 



