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c5' . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale brown and a 

 few black scales ; palpi blackish at sides except at extremit}- ; 

 tegulse with dark medial line ; tarsi black, ringed with white ; 



Fig. 60. — Euxoa spinifera, (J. \. 



abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Pore wing pale 

 ochreoiis with a violaceous tinge and slight fuscous suffusion 

 especially on costal area ; the veins slightly streaked with fuscous • 

 an indistinct double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 the antemedial line represented by oblique double striae from eosta 

 and a slightly curved line from median nervure to vein 1 ; the 

 claviform very elongate lanceolate, strongly defined by black and 

 filled in by dark brown ; the orbicular and reniform with fuscous 

 centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former elliptical 

 and with its outer edge produced to a point, often open above, the 

 latter often angled inwards on median nervure, a black fascia 

 between them in cell aud slight streaks from outer edge of reniform ; 

 the postmedial line hardly traceable, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, 

 dentate to termen on veins 7, 4, 3, with dentate black marks on its 

 in]ier side at middle and the area beyond it blackish except towards 

 apex and tornus ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, the costal area suffused Avith ochreous, a fine 

 terminal line on costal half. 



5 . Usually darker ; hind wing with the veins, costal and 

 terminal areas tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. S. Fkance ; Spain ; Italy ; Sicily ; Cakaries ; Algiers, 

 type t $ liodnce in Coll. Oberthur ; Egypt ; Eritrea, Massowah 

 (Barl-er), 1 2 ; British East Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 <S , 

 1 2 , Kikuyu ( Crawshay), 1 c? , 2 2 , Eb Urru {Betton), 1 cJ , 1 $ ; 

 MASHOiSTALAND, Salisbury (IlarsJiall), 1 J , 2 5 ; Transvaal (Boss), 

 1 c? ; Katal, Estcourt {HutcJdmon), 1 J , 1 $ , Durban {Goocli, 

 Leigli), 1 05" , 1 2 ; Basutoland, Maseru {Craiushay), 2 (^ ; Cape 

 Colony, type f d ferina in Coll. Eothschild, (A. Smith, Drer/e) 

 4 c? ; Syria; Te^sia, Fao (Cumminr/), 1 (^ ; Kashmir, jS^arkundah 

 (McArthur), 1 S ; Kultj, Sultanpur (G. Toum/), 1 cJ , 1 5 ; Punjab, 

 Simla (SivuJioe), 2 § , Kangra {Hoching), 1 c? , 7 $ , Cambellpur 

 {Yerhury), 3 c5', Jubbulpore (Butler), 2 $, Manpuri, 1 c? , 1 $ , 

 Allahabad, 2 5 ; Bengal, Calcutta, 2 $ ; Bombay (Swinhoe), 1 $ , 

 Poena, 1 $ ; Nilgiris {Hampson), 2 $ ; Cexlon (Tenq^h'ton), 1 $ , 

 Trincomali (Yerlmry), 1 d , 1 $ ; Burma, Myngyan (Watson), 

 1 $ . Exjy. 26-40 millim. 



