310 NOCTUID^. 



552. Euxoa lidia. 



Xoetua lidia. Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. :222, pi. 396. f. D (1782) ; Hen-.- 



Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 27 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. 

 Agrotis inc.rpectata, Alph. Kom. Mem. ix. p. 1.58, pi. 11. f. 8 (1897). 



Head reddish brown or black mixed with white ; thorax black, 

 the basal half of tegulse white slightly mixed with rufous : legs 

 black, ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft rufous. 

 Tore wing pale vinous red or grey, more or less completely suffused 

 with black ; the costal area and the area beyond postmedial line 

 pale ; a Avaved whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 a waved antemedial line defined by whitish o)i inner side ; claviform 

 large, indistinctly defined by black and pointed at extremity: 

 orbicular and reuiform white with slight fuscous centres, the former 

 round or obhque, elliptical ; the postmedial line dentate, bent 

 outwuards below^ costa, exeui-ved to vein 4, then oblique, the area 

 beyond it purplish or reddish grey to the subterminal line, which is 

 whitish, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, defined by a series of dentate black marks on its inner 

 side and a whitish patch beyond it at apex ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; cilia brownish mixed with fuscous. Hind wing pale 

 suifused with fuscous brown, especially towards termen ; cilia 

 white, with a brown line at base ; the underside white, the costal 

 and terminal areas suffused with fuscous, a small discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. inc.rj^ectata. Larger; fore wing with the costa and 

 stigmata grey. 



Hah. HoLL.\ND ; Jutland ; S.E. Gekmaxy, Zeller & Mutzell Colls. ; 

 E. Siberia, Ussuri. Erp. 38 millim. 



553. Euxoa obertluiri. (Plate LXVII. fig. 1.) 



Agrotis ohcrthuri, Leecli, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 30. 

 Agrotis tritici, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 29 (nee Linn.) 



Head and thorax red-brown ; tegulte with black medial line ; the 



extremities of tegulte and greater part of patagia often purplish 



fuscous ; legs mostly black ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral 



surface ochreous irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale red-brown 



tinged with purple ; the costal area ochreous white at base, shading 



to pale rufous towards apex ; the subbasal line represented by a 



black fascia below costa and a pale striga on the black fascia below 



base of cell ; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, angled 



outwards below costa and above inner margin ; claviform defined 



by black ; orbicular and reniform greyish defined by black and 



their centres by fuscous, the former small, round or obhque, 



elliptical, the cell before and between them and the disk beyond 



the reniform suffused with black ; the postmedial line minutely 



dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, 



oblique below vein 4 ; the subterminal line pale, minutely waved, 



excurved at vein 7 and middle, and defined on inner side by dentate 



black marks below costa and betAveen veins G and 2, the area 



