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472. Euxoa denticulosa. 



Nocttia denticulosa, Esp. Seluuett. iv. pi. 183. f. 3 (1786). 



Noctua cos, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schinett., Noct. f. 720 (1827) ; Boiscl. Ic. 



Lep. Eiir. pi. 79. f. 2; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 181, pi. 17. f. 2; 



Hen-.-Sehaii'. Ear. Schmett., Noct. f. 420; Staud. Cal. Lep. pal. p. 146. 

 Agrotis tephra, Boiscl. Geu. & Ind. Meth. p. 109 (1840). 

 Agrotis vacillans, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 25 (1845). 

 Agrotis naggageiisis. Fit. Neii. Beitr. Schinett. v. p. 110, pi. 448. if. 1, 2 (1845). 

 Agrotis millieri, Staud. Berce, Lep. Fr. iii. p. 139 (1870). 

 Agrotis cycladum, Staud. Hor. Soc. Eut. Koss. vii. p. 121, pi. i. f. 9 (1870). 

 Agrotis aphe, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 01 (1885). 



Head and thorax brownish grey irrorated with dark brown ; 

 palpi blackish except at tips ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing 

 grey-brown irrorated with grey ; the subbasal line represented by 

 two strife from costa ; a double minutely waved antemedial line; 

 orbicular and reuiform incompletely defined by blackish, the former 

 round ; an oblique medial shade from lower anole of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing whitish, suffused with brown 

 especially towards termen ; the veins brown ; cilia white, brownish 

 at base ; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown. 



Ab. 1. millieri. Fore wing with the lines indistinct. 



Ab. 2. cycladum. Small and tinged with rufous. — jS^axos. 



Hah. Feance, S.E., Sand Coll. ; Switzeeland, Valais, Zeller & 

 Frey Colls. ; HuNGAEr, Leech Coll. ; Spain ; Sicily ; Istria ; Greece, 

 Xaxos ; Tunis, Gabes, type f 5 aphe in Coll. Mabille ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minoe, Pontus ; Stria, 1 J, Leech Coll.; W. Turkestan, 

 Ferghana, Issyk Kul. Exp. 38 millim. 



473. Euxoa fuscigera. (Plate LXIV. fig. 27.) 



Agrotis fascigcrus, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 155 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 99. 



Pale grey-brown irrorated with fuscous black ; palpi with the 

 1st and 2nd joints black at sides'. Fore wing with slight feiruginous 

 suffusion in discal and submedian folds and on disk ; the lines 

 single, black ; the subbasal line bisinuate from costa to vein 1 ; 

 the antemedial line excurved in and below cell and angled outwards 

 above inner margin ; the orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined 

 by blackisli scales with some black before the orbicidar, and as a 

 quadrate patch between the stigmata; the postmedial line dentate, 

 bent outwards Ijclow costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; an 

 indistinct irregularly dentate subterminal line ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing whitish, the terminal half suffused with 

 brown especially in female ; the veins brown ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a discoidal 

 lunule and punctiform curved postmedial line. 



