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with black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing grey, irrorated 

 with fuscous ; traces of a dark subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; an indistinct waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 whitish defined by fuscous, the former somewhat quadrate ; an 

 indistinct oblique medial line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line indistinct, excurved from below costa 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; a diffused dark subterminal line slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white slightly tinged 

 with fuscous, especially towards termen. 



Ab. 1. ohscura. Fore wing almost uniform in colour. 



Hah. S. EussiA, Sarepta, 1 c? , 1 $, (Chnsto_ph) 1 cT , Zeller 

 Coll. Eccjy. 40 miUim. 



316. Euxoa brachypecten. (Plate LX. fig. 24.) 

 Agrotis brachi/pecten, Hmpsn. Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. p. 35 (1890). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with a few grey and black 

 scales : palpi blackish at sides except at extremity ; tegulce with the 

 basal half darker ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen whitish, 

 dorsally tinged with ochreous and fuscous. Fore wing reddish 

 brown, suffused in parts with fuscous or grey ; a double waved sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double waved antemedial 

 line, strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform small, 

 fuscous, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform greyish with 

 fuscous centres and black outline, the former small, round or ellip- 

 tical, the latter obscured by the diffused blackish medial shade ; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then curved ; subterminal line grey, 

 irregularly dentate, with some dentate black marks on its inner side 

 and patch at costa, the area beyond it blackish except at apex and 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing scmihyaline 

 white ; the veins brownish, the termen suffused with fuscous ; the 

 inner area clothed with ochreous hair ; the underside with the costal 

 area ochreous, with dark postmedial mark. 



Hah. SocoTRA, Adho Dimellus {Grant), 1 J, 4 5 , Hadibu Plain, 

 4 S type, Jena Agahan, 1 $ . Kvi^. 34 millim. 



317. Euxoa coquimbensis, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 25.) 



J . Head and thorax reddish brown, mixed with whitish and 

 black ; tegulie with slight black medial line ; abdomen pale at base, 

 ochreous brown towards extremity. Fore wing red-brown tinged 

 with fuscous ; the subbasal line double, black with pale centre, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line similar, angled outwards 

 in cell and very strongly above inner margin ; the orbicular and 

 reniform small, pale with slight fuscous centres and pale outline ; 

 the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then obli(]ue and acutely angled inwards 

 below submedian fold ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled 



