EUXOA. 



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nervure and obsolete towards iuner margin ; clavit'orm large, dark 

 brown with black outline ; orbicular elongate, elliptical, with brown 

 centre, pale annulus, and black outline ; reniform brown, with dark 

 centre and black outline, the cell between the stigmata dark brown ; 

 jiostmedial line formed by minute dark striae on the veins, bent 

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

 terminal line indistinct, pale, dentate at veins 7, 4, 3, 2, and with 

 short dark streaks before it at middle : a terminal series of dark 

 points ; cilia yellowish brown, Avith two fine dark lines through 

 them. Hind wing semihyaline white. 



2 ■ Head, thorax, and fore wing uniformly tinged with fuscous ; 

 hind wing with the costal and inner areas tinged with brown. 



Hab. Perak ; Java (Horsjleld), 2 c? type significans, 3 5 type 

 and type orbicularis, Samarang (Meijer), 1 c? ; N. Australia, Pt. 

 Darwin, 2 J. Ex^i., S 34, $ 40 millim. 



290. Euxoa segetis. 



I^oetm segetiim, Sebiff. Wien. Verz. pp. 81, 252, ff. 'ia, b (177(>) ; Hiibn. 



Bur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 147 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 181 ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 151. 

 Nocfua pra-cox, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 359 (1827), nee Liun. 

 Noctuafcrvida, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 711 (1827). 

 Agrotis stcula, Boisd. Gren. et Ind. Metb. p. 109 (1840). 

 Agrotis dimldia, Zell. Isis, 1847, p. 439. 

 Agrotis sicania, Guen. Noct. i. p. 275 (1852). 

 Agrotis margincdis, Wlk. x. 339 (18.56). 

 Agrotis obUiiiosa, Wlk. x. 340 (1856j. 

 Agrotis a.vcrsa, Wlk. x. 345 (1856). 

 Agrotis corrccta, Wlk. x. 345 (1856). 



Agrotis denticulosa, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 168 (18(^)0). 

 Agrotis conspurcata, Wlk. xxxii. 696 (1865) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi 147. 



f. 7 a. 

 Agrotis repulsa, Wlk. xxxii. 696 (1865). 

 Agrotis ccrtificata, Wlk. xxxii. 697 (1865). 

 Agrotis ingrata. But). A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 162 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 



ii. p. 27, pi. 29. f. 9. 

 Agrotis pallida, Stgr. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 423. 

 Agrotis fticosa, Butl. Tr. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 179. 

 Agrotis lassa, Swinb. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 444. 



Fig. 59. — Euxoa segetis. J'. 



(From Motbs Ind vol ii.) 



c5" . Head and thorax pale brownish ochrcous slightly irrorated 

 with black ; palpi brown at sides ; antenntc brown ; tarsi banded 

 with fuscous ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 pale brownish ochreous striated with brown ; a double fuscous 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold interrupted at cell ; 



