EDXOA. 299 



tarsi blackish, with pale rings ; abdomen greyish or ochreous, 

 dorsally tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft with rufous. Fore wing 

 purplish grey irrorated with fuscous, the disk suffused with dark or 

 reddish brown ; the costal area broadly grey- white to postmedial 

 line, at base extending to median nervure ; a curved black subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold, defined by whitish on outer side, 

 and with a black streak below the cell from it to the double, waved, 

 autemedial line, which is angled outwards below costa : claviform 

 moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform grey-white, 

 irrorated with brown at centre and defined by black, the former 

 rounded or oblique elliptical, the cell before and between them 

 suffused with black ; median nervure streaked with white ; the 

 postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line whitish, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, defined on 

 inner side by a dark patch at costa with some pale points on it, 

 and at middle by dentate dark marks, the area beyond it tinged 

 with fuscous except at apex ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white, the veins and termen slightly tinged with fuscous 

 brown, broadly in female ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Savitzeeland, Valais, Frey Coll. ; Lr. Austria ; Caeinthia ; 

 HiTNGAET, Zeller & Mutzell Colls. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



533. Euxoa islaiidica. (Plate LXVI. fig. 15.) 



Agrotis islandica. Stand. Stett. ent, Zeit. 1857, p. 232 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 106 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. 

 Agrotis rossica. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. IbSl, p. 419 ; Alpb. Eom. Mem. v. 



p. 138, pi. 7. f. 3. 

 Agrotis Jcursehi, Graser, Berl. eut. Zeit. 1889, p. 253. 

 Agrotis nigra, Stand. Iris, ix. p. 251 (1896). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-brown, the head 

 and part of tegulao in front of the black medial line often whitish ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft pale fulvous. Fore wing grey- 

 brown, often much suffused with fuscous brown ; an irregular 

 blackish streak below basal part of cell ; the subbasal line double, 

 obsolescent, interrupted, extending from costa to vein 1 ; the ante- 

 medial line double, angled inwards on median nervure, then oblique 

 and excurved below cell and vein 1 ; the claviform well-developed 

 or large, defined by black ; the orbicular and reniform grey-brown 

 or whitish, the former round or somewhat elliptical, the latter 

 moderate, the cell before and between the stigmata and the area 

 just beyond the reniform blackish ; the postmedial line bent out- 

 wards below costa, incurved in discal fold, excurved beyond lower 

 angle of cell, then oblicpic ; the subterminal line indistinct, angled 

 slightly outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series 

 of dentate marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white tinged with brown, the veins, a slight discoidal 

 mark, the costal and terminal areas brown ; the underside with the 



