EuxoA. 265 



at sides ; tegulse with slight medial line ; tarsi ringed with fuscous ; 

 abdomen white, dorsally irrorated with brown and tinged with 

 ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing brownish grey with slight 

 dark irroration ; the subbasal line represented by double striae from 

 costa and median uervure ; antemedial line double at costa, then 

 single, waved, indistinct and angled outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform small, tinged with ochreous and defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined 

 by black, the fox'mer small, rounded, but produced to a small lobe 

 on outer side ; medial shade very indistinct, diffused ; postmedial 

 line crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; the sub terminal line only defined by a slight dark shade 

 before it on costa and the area beyond it being tinged with fuscous 

 except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a fine waved terminal line, and a brown line through the cilia. 

 Hind wing pure white : the underside with slight dark irroration 

 on costal area and a postmedial series of points almost obsolete 

 except towards costa. 



Hah. Egxpt, xllexandria, type t J in Mus. Alexandria. Ea.'2). 

 38 millim. 



469. Euxoa choris. (Plate LXIV. fig. 25.) 



Agrotis choris, Harr. Can. Eiit. viii. p. 37 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 97. 

 Ar/rotis coqitans, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 46 (1890) ; id. Cat. 

 'Noct. N. Am. p. 90. 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown strongly mixed with 

 grey ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen with the anal tuft tinged 

 with ochreous. Fore wing pale luteous brown tinged with grey ; 

 a sinuous blackish line in base of submedian fold ; pairs of blackish 

 points on costa at the lines, which are double and indistinct ; the 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial dentate 

 outwards below costa and in cell, excurved below cell and more so 

 above inner margin ; claviform elongate, defined by a few black 

 scales ; the orbicular elongate, elliptical, defined by a tine black line ; 

 the reniform defined by a black line on inner side, ill-defined on 

 outer ; the postmedial line represented by a double series of points 

 on the veins, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved : 

 an indistinct sinuous subterminal line excurved at middle ; a series 

 of small dark lunules on termen. Hind wing white tinged with 

 brown especially towards termen, the veins pale brown ; a brown 

 terminal line ; the hair on inner area ochreous ; cilia white ; 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown ; a small 

 discoidal lunule and a postmedial series of short streaks on the 

 veins. 



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 40 millim. 



