190 NOCTUID^. 



327. Eiixoa aequicuspis. (Plate LXI. fig. 8.) 



Af/rotis mqnicuspis, Staud. Iris. xii. p. 365, pi. 6. f. 18 (1899) ; irl. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 147. 



J . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black : tarsi 

 with Avhite rings ; abdomen grey and dark brown, the anal tuft 

 ochreous. Fore wing grey tinged with reddish brown ; a double 

 subbasal line waved from costa to submediau fold ; a double, waved, 

 antemedial line more strongly excurved above inner margin ; clavi- 

 form moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform rather 

 small, grey, defined by black and with slight fuscous centres, the 

 former round ; an indistinct waved medial line ; the postmedial line 

 minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 in discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; the median nervure and bases 

 of veins 2, 3, -4 streaked with grey between the ante- and postmedial 

 lines : the subterminal line pale, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, defined on inner side by a fuscous 

 patch at costa and small dentate black marks at middle ; the area 

 beyond it dark ; a fine terminal crenulate black line ; cilia pale 

 brown, with a darker line through them. Hind wing pale suff'used 

 with fuscous brown, especially on terminal area ; cilia pale ; the 

 underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a blackish discoidal lunule 

 and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. E. Turkestan, Thian-Shan Mts. ; Mongolia, Urga, 1 J . 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



*328, Euxoa humigena. (Plate LXIX. fig. 19.) 



Agrotis humigcna, Pungl. Iris, xii. p. :291, pi. 9. f. 1 (1899); Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 149. 



cJ . Head and thorax pale reddish brown thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore 

 wing grey-brown with a slight reddish tinge, thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the lines distinct ; the subbasal line double, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, waved, strongly 

 angled oiitwards above inner margin, the claviform a minute spot 

 on its outer edge : orbicular and reniform defined by black, the 

 former a small aunulus touching or almost touching the antemedial 

 line, the latter large, extending to below cell, its centre defined by 

 fuscoiis, its outer line rather diffuse and connected with postmedial 

 line by a streak in discal fold ; the postmedial line double, dentate, 

 the outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of pale lunules with small dentate dark 

 marks on their inner side and dark patch at costa, the area beyond 

 it tinged with fuscous at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous brown, the cilia paler : the underside 

 greyish irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku Nor, type f cJ in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



