250 ]socTUiD,ii:. 



Head and thorax dark brown, mixed ochreoiis or grey or suffused 

 with purplish or vinous red ; palpi blackish at sides ; tegulte with 

 black medial line; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey tinged 

 with brown, or dark brown. Fore wing dark fuscous brown, 

 irrorated with grey or ochreous, sometimes suffused with purple 

 or purple-red ; the subbasal line represented by black striae below 

 costa and cell, defined by greyish on outer side; the antemedial 

 line double, waved, somewhat oblique, black filled in with greyish ; 

 the claviform slightly defined by black, connected with base by an 

 obsolescent streak in submediau fold and sometimes also with 

 the postmedial line ; orbicular and rcniform with fuscous centres, 

 and greyish or ochreous annuli defined by black, the former round, 

 sometimes elliptical and produced on inner side, some black often 

 present in cell and beyond orbicular ; a waved medial shade ; 

 postmedial line black, defined by ochreous or grey on outer side, 

 minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the 

 sabterminal line represented by a series of greyish or ochreous 

 points with small dentate black marks on their inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing whitish, the veins and marginal areas 

 suflused with fuscous brown, in female almost entirely suffused : the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous 

 brown, a dark discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. vuhricans. Paler and tinged with red. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll.; Fkance, Sand 

 Coll. ; Geemany, Zeller Coll. ; Atjstkia ; Switzeeland, Frey Coll. ; 

 Scandinavia; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta {ChristoiJt) ; 

 Aemenia ; Asia Minoe, Pontus ; W. Tijekestan, Ala Tau, Issyk Kul ; 

 E. TuEKESTAN, Hi ; Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; Tibet, Anido : 

 SiBEEiA ; Amueland. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 92 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. o33, pi. 130. 



Ochreous or ochreous brown, sides light grey-green ; dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines pale grey-green edged with blackish ; spiracular hue 

 blackish green ; subspiracular line double, whitish ; head marked 

 with blackish. Food-plants : THfoUum, Plantarjo, fleracleum, etc. 

 4-6. 



439. Euxoa nyctopis, n. sp. (Plate LXIII. fig. 30.) 

 Head and thorax reddish brown irrorated with white; pectus 

 brown and grey ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-brown. 

 Fore wing reddish brown, the basal area irrorated with grey ; a 

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

 waved, somewhat oblique antemedial line ; claviform slightly defined 

 by black; orbicular and reniform fuscous defined by black, the 

 former round, the latter with whitish annulus ; traces of a waved 

 medial line: the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced 

 to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; a whitish subterminal line, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it tinged 



