246 NOCTUID^. 



Ab. 2. terranea. Fore wing ochreous or pale rufous. 



Ab. 3. amasina. Fore wing fuscous grey, darker in female, with 

 the medial shade blackish. 



Ab. 4. lunigera. Fore wing suffused with dark brown in malu, 

 fuscous in female ; the claviform filled in with black ; the orbicular 

 white defined by black. — Britain, south. 



Hah. Britain, south, Zeller & Leech. Colls. ; Feaxce. south. 

 Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; Sicily ; 

 Dalmatia ; Algiees : Canaeibs ; S. Ettssia, Sarepta, 1 $ , Zeller 

 Coll. ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 92 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 315, pi. 128. f. 1. 



Dull brownish, greyer at sides, sometimes tinged with greenish ; 

 dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines slightly jjaler, sometimes 

 dark-edged; head brownish, marked with black: thoracic plate 

 blackish, intersected by the yellow dorsal line. Food-plants : 

 Polygonum, Chenopodium, Plantago. 8-10. 



432. Euxoa psammophaea. (Plate LXIII. fig. 20.) 

 Agrotis psammopJicea, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 151 (1899). 



S . Head pale red-brown ; palpi blackish ; tegular with the 

 basal half black, the tips pale ; thorax pale red-brown, irrorated 

 W'ith black or deep ferruginous brown ; legs mostly blackish ; 

 abdomen pale brown suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft rufous. 

 Fore wing ochreous or reddish brown irrorated with black ; a 

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

 double, waved, antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and 

 more strongly above inner margin ; claviform more or less pro- 

 minently defined by black ; orbicular and reniform blackish, some- 

 times connected by a black streak, the former round ; traces of an 

 oblique waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the 

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

 oblique ; subterminal line represented by pale points on dentate 

 black marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle : a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous 

 brown suffused with fuscous ; a dark terminal line ; the underside 

 paler ; the costal area irrorated with black, a black discoida'l spot, 

 sinuous postmedial line, and terminal series of points. 



5 . Thorax and fore wing suffused with black. 

 Hab. Hawaii, Haleakala (Perkins), 2 d , 1 2 fype. Ex2). 40 

 millim. 



433. Euxoa sculptilis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 27.) 



Agrotis sculptilis, Harv. Bull. Buflf. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 271 (1874) ; id. iii. 



p. 73, pi. 3. f. 2 ; Smith, Cat. JNoct. N. Am. p. 95. 

 Carneades xyliniforinis. Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 221 (1890). 



S . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; tegulae with a 

 black medial line and reddish-brown tips ; patagia blackish at 

 extremities ; abdomen grey strongly irrorated with brown, the 



