EDXOA.. 159 



with brown centre and white anuulus defined by brown ; reniform 

 greyish, with some black scales before and beyond it and some pale 

 rufous between it and orbicular ; postmedial line fine, dentate, 

 blackish, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3 ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 costal area tinged with brown, u brown terminal line, the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Canaries, Lanzarote 1., type t S in Mus. Vienna. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



278. Euxoa trifida. 



Noctua trifida, F. de Waldb. Ent. Imp. Ross. i. p. 200, pi. 5. f. 6 (1820). 

 Agrotis roqneda, Staud. Berl. e. Zeit. 1870, p. 113 ; Mill. Icon. iii. p. 3'J5, 

 pi. 149.' f. 14; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 



J . Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with brown and 

 fuscous ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with brownish ochreous. 

 Fore wing brownish ochreous irrorated with black ; the veins 

 streaked with white ; the subbasal line represented by black strise 

 from costa and median nervure : the antemedial line waved, black ; 

 claviform elongate, defined liy black ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 ochreous, with black-irrorated centres and defined by black, the 

 former round ; the postmedial line waved, bent outwards below 

 costa, incurved in discal fold, and very oblique below vein 4 ; the 

 subterminal line whitish, defined by black sufii'usion on inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules : cilia white, with a black line through 

 them. Hind wing pure white, with fine brown terminal line ; the 

 underside with slight brown irroration and curved postmedial line 

 on costal area only. 



llah. Spain, Valladolid ; S. Rttssia, Crimea, Sarepta, 2 J : Asia 

 Minor, Pontus. Exp. 36 millim. 



Sect. II. Autennai of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apical 

 third serrate. 



A. Female with the wings partially aborted. 



279. Euxoa fatidica. 



Noctua fatidica, Hiibn. Saumil. Eur. Schmelt., Noct. f. 704 (1827); Herr.- 

 Schiiif. Schniett. Eur. ii. pi. 89. f. 456 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1,53. 



Hadena tmahycia, Ev. Bull. Mobc. ii. p. 632 (1851) ; id. iii. p. 110, pi. 2. f. 9 

 (1856). 



(5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; tegulte with black medial line, patagia edged with brown : 

 pectus and legs mostly black-brown ; abdomen dorsally pale brown, 

 ventrally black-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown ; the veins 

 defined by grey streaks ; the subbasal line represented by black 



