EUXOA. 



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560. Euxoa intracta. (Plate LXVII. tig. G.) 



Agrotis intracta, Wlk. x. 346 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 183. 

 ISptBlotis ambigua, Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. :A, pi. 128. ff. 10, 11 (188^). 



Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 grey-browu. Fore wdng dark reddish bro\^u, sometimes tinged 

 with fuscous, and irrorated with blackish ; a double, waved, sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique, double, waved, 

 autemedial line ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and rcniform with more or less developed greyish annuli delined 

 bv black, the former round ; an indistinct waved medial line 

 angled outwards to lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line double, 

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

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

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, delined by the area beyond it being darker and 

 by slight dark marks on its inner side at costa and middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark brown, the cilia 

 greyish at tips ; the underside with the costal area suffused with 

 grey and irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing uniform fuscous or red-brown, without dark 

 irroration. 



Ab. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing uniform black-brown 

 without dark irroration, the grey annuli of stigmata prominent ; 

 hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area Ijrown.^ — Japan. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Levis, Pryer), 3 c? , Oiwake {Leech). 1 5 . 

 Hakodate {Leech), 1 $ : W. Chixa, Chia-kou-ho {Pratt), 1 d , 1 2 , 

 Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 2 S , Chow-piu-sa, 1 S , ^foupin {KricTieldorf), 

 1 2 '■> "Kashmir, Narkundah {JIcArthur), 3 S , 1 2 : Punjab, 

 Thundiani {Yerhury), 1 S , Sultanpur (G^. Young), 1 cJ, 1 2, 

 Dharmsiila {Hocldng), 2 d , 3 2 type ambigua ; Nepal {Hardwiclce), 

 1 S type ; Tibet, Yatong {Bingham), 1 c5" , 1 2 ; Sikhim {Atl-inson), 

 1 S . E.vp. 46-50 millim. 



561 . Euxoa xanthiodes, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. fig. 7.) 



S . Head and thorax pale rufous ; palpi and fore coxte redder ; 

 fore tibia) and tarsi whitish in front ; abdomen reddish ochreous. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous ; an indistinct autemedial 

 line, angled inwards in cell and on vein 1 and outwards in sub- 

 median fold and above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform small, 

 pale, indistinct, the former round, an obscure medial shade passing 

 between them; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved : 

 an indistinct minutely waved subterminal line, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing ochreous 

 yellow, slightly tinged with fuscous brown except on termen and 

 cilia. Underside of fore wing tinged with fuscous to postmedial 

 line except on costal area : hind wing yellow, the costal area 

 tinged with rufous, an indistinct curved postmedial line. 



