180 noctdid^t;. 



cell before and between the stigmata black-brown ; the postmedial 

 line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; the veins with dark streaks to the sub- 

 terminal line, which is greyish defined by small dentate black marks 

 before its medial part, and the area beyond it fuscous except at apex, 

 the line dentate at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; a fine waved terminal black 

 line. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and marginal areas 

 tinged with brown ; cilia white ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point. 



Ab. 1. lugens. Fore wing darker and more imiform iu colour. 



Hah. S. Et7ssia, Sarepta, 7 d , Zeller and Leech Colls. ; W. 

 Tl'rkestan, Fergana. Exp. 34-38 millim. 



Larva ochreous mottled with brown ; dorsal line double, subdorsal 

 and lateral lines indistinct ; warts brown ; stigmata black ; head 

 rufous mottled with brown. 



307. Euxoa edmondsi. (Plate LX. fig. 18.) 

 Agrotis edmondsi, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 131. 



cJ . Head and thorax grey with a brownish tinge ; edges of 

 patagia with some black scales ; abdomen white, tinged with brown 

 towards extremity. Fore wing grey, with an ochreous tinge and 

 slightly sufl^used with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by 

 oblique black striae from costa and below cell ; the antemedial line 

 almost obsolete except in submedian interspace where it is black, 

 defined by whitish on inner side and angled in submedian fold, then 

 very strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform well- 

 developed, fuscous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform fuscous 

 with grey annuli and black outline, the former elliptical, produced 

 on outer side, the latter large ; the postmedial line black defined by 

 whitish on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a subterminal series of pale 

 dentate marks with black streaks on their inner side, the one above 

 vein 5 extending to the postmedial line, and spots on their outer 

 side ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia whitish, with 

 fine black line near tips. Hind wing pure white, with terminal 

 crenulate black line. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing more tinged with fuscous ; hind 

 wing suffused with fuscous brown except in, below, and just beyond 

 cell. 



Hah. CuiLi (Edmonds), 1 c? , 1 $ type, Talcahuano, Coquimbo 

 (J. J. Walker), 2 c? , 1 ? • -Ea:p. 44 millim. 



308. Euxoa proleuca, n, sp. (Plate LX. fig. 19.) 



J . Head and thorax fuscous brown, slightly mixed with grey ; 

 tegulse with black medial line ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore 

 wing greyish brown ; the costal area ochreous to the postmedial 

 line, with pale brown streaks in the interspaces ; traces of a blackish 

 streak below base of cell ; the subbasal and antemedial lines 



