166 NOCTUID^. 



defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurvcd at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 pale, suffused with fuscous brown except in interspaces towards base ; 

 cilia pale with a brown line through them; the underside white, 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, a sinuous post- 

 medial line with the area beyond it more or less suff"used with 

 fuscous and with large black apical patch. 



Hah. Australia, 1 c? type rubriUnea, 1 $ type alhinasus ; 

 Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 3 J , 3 § ; N. 8. Wales, Moreton 

 Bay (Diggles), 6 6,1 $ , types dorsidnis, alhiixdpis, 23'ictinata, and 

 orthosioides, Sydney (liaynor, Eietmann), 13 J, 4 $; Victoria, 

 Gisborne (Lyell), 2^,1 $ , Melbourne {Lucas), 1 S ; Tasmania, 

 2 c? , 1 5 , types recondita,graphii^liorides, and summa. Exp. 32-46 

 millim. Type f in Mus. Paris ; type t $ lapidosa in Mus. Oxon. 



288. Euxoa longidentifera, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 10.) 



Head and thorax red-brown, more or less strongl}' mixed with 

 grey and black ; palpi blackish at sides ; pectus with some white 

 hair ; abdomen white, more or less strong!}- tinged on dorsum with 

 ochreous or fuscous and ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing grejr-brown tinged with fuscous, sometimes purplish grey or 

 rufous, the costal area suff'used with fuscous ; an indistinct waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double waved ante- 

 medial line acutely angled outwards below costa and very strongly 

 above inner margin ; claviform elongate, fuscous defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres, and grey annuli defined 

 by black, the former produced to a point on outer side, the latter 

 moderate ; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct pale 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 with a series of small dentate brown marks on its inner side, the 

 area beyond it usually darker ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white ; female with the veins and margins tinged with 

 brown. 



Hab. Br, E, Africa, Muthambi {Craivshay), 1 2, Machakos 

 {Crawshay), 1 J , Kikuyu {Betton), 1 S type ; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury {Marshall), 1 S ; Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 3 cj' , 5 2 , 

 Durban {Gooch), 1 (S : Basutoland, Maseru {Craivshay), 2 cJ ; 

 Madagascar, Diego Suarez. K%p., c? 34, $ 40 millim. 



289. Euxoa interjectionis. (Plate LX. fig, 11.) 



Agrostis interjectionis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 281 (1852). 

 Agrodis orbicularis, Wlk. xxxii. 700 (1865). 

 Agrostis significans, Wlk. xxxii. 700 (1865). 



S . Pale grej'-brown ; sides of palpi and frous dark brown ; 

 tegulge with black medial line ; abdomen white, Eore wing with 

 the basal area tinged with fuscous brown on basal half; a pale 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a dark antemedial line 

 defined by whitish on inner side, slightly angled inwards at median 



