EUXOA. 241 



Hah. S. France, Leech Coll., ? Pyrenees ; Germany; Atjstria, 

 Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Italy ; Caucasus ; 

 Armenia, Kasikoporan. Exp. 38-42 millim. 



421. Euxoa simplonia. 



Noctua simplonia, Geyer, Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. fF. 798, 799 (1827j ; 

 Boisd. Ic. Lep. Eur. pi. 82. ff. 1, 3 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 209, 

 pi. 19. f. 5; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. ff. 478, 479; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 145. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with browu ; palpi black-brown ; 

 tegulae with dark browu medial band ; pectus and legs mostly 

 black-brown, the tarsi with white rings ; abdomen dark brown. 

 Fore wing bluish grey irrorated with brown ; the costa yellowish ; 

 a waved subbasal brown line from costa to submedian fold, with a 

 yellowish patch beyond its lower extremity ; an irregularly waved 

 strong antemedial brown line ; claviform only defined by a yellowish 

 patch beyond it ; orbicular obsolete ; reniform small, fuscous, with 

 a yellowish patch before it in cell ; a medial shade angled outwards 

 to lower angle of cell ; a postmedial brown line strong, dentate, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, obscurely dentate, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle : a terminal series of 

 dark points ; cilia yellow. Hind wing fuscous brown, deeper 

 towards termen ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside grey irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and 

 traces of subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more suffused and irrorated with brown, the 

 yellow obsolescent. 



Hah. France, Pyrenees, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Zeller & Frey 

 Colls. ; Italy. Exp. 40 millim. 



422. Euxoa culminicola. 



Agrotis culminicola, Staud. Berl. cut. Zeit. 1870, p. 107 ; Mill. Ic. pi. 148. 

 ff. 2, 3; Stndf. Iris, i. p. 211, pi. 10. ff. 1, 2, & pi. 11. f. 1 (genit.); 

 Hofm. Gr. Schm. ed. ii. pi. 34. f. 6 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and ochreous ; 

 abdomen pale ochreous, the ventral surface white irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing pale fuscous, suffused with pale yellow scales 

 and irrorated with black ; traces of a waved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct oblique waved antemedial 

 line ; orbicular represented by a fuscous point ; reniform indistinct, 

 fuscous ; a slight medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of 

 cell ; the postmedial line highly dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 somewhat incurved in discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; faint 

 traces of a subterminal line angled outwards at; vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle : cilia yellow irrorated with black. Hind wing whitish, 

 suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown, especially towards 

 termen ; cilia pale yellow ; the underside whitish, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown. 



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