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then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa ; the subterminal 

 line grey, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, most prominent 

 towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of minute black lunulcs ; a grey line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing gi'ey suffused with fuscous ; the cilia w'hitish, 

 with a brown line throiigh them ; the underside whitish, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point. 

 Hub. Persia, Aschabad, in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 32 millim. 



572. Euxoa t-nigrum. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 2.) 

 Orihodes t-nigrum, Guen. Noct. i. p. 372 (1852). 



S . Head and thorax brownish ochreous, irrorated with a few 

 black scales ; palpi with black patch at sides ; abdomen ochreous, 

 dorsally tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft with a rufous tinge. 

 Fore wing ochreous, tinged with brown and sparsely irrorated with 

 brown and black scales ; the costal area to median nervure and 

 subterminal line paler ; a small black spot in middle of cell ; 

 a black streak above median nervure from before middle of cell to a 

 point at middle of vein 4, conjoined to a discoidal lunule and 

 forming a harpoon-shaped mark ; subterminal line very ill-defined, 

 blackish, defined on costal half by the pale area before it, oblique 

 from apex to vein 7, where it is sharply angled outwards, then 

 again oblique to extremity of streak on vein 4 ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing whitish, the veins brown, the costal 

 and inner areas tinged with brown ; the imderside with slight 

 discoidal point, and postmedial and terminal series from costa to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. Brazil, Xcw Pribourg, Pctropolis {Doer), 1 S . Exp. 

 42 millim. 



*573. Euxoa abnormis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 13.) 



Agrotis ahnormls, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 41 (1800) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 7'J. 



Carneous grey shaded and suffused with reddish ; palpi brown at 

 sides ; tegulae with a blackish band at base. Fore wing with the 

 subbasal line double, black, dentate ; antemcdial line double, the 

 inner line indistinct, brown or blackish, the included area pale in 

 dark specimens, erect, angled outwards below costa and cell and 

 above inner margin ; claviform faintly defined by dark scales ; 

 orbicular moderate, elliptical, oblique, pale in the dark specimens, 

 defined by black, sometimes incompletely on inner side; reniform 

 with leaden grey centre, darker below, with grey annulus narrowly 

 defined by black ; postmedial line single or with double spots at 

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

 subterminal line somewhat paler, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a dark shade, pro- 

 minent in the paler specimens; a fine interrupted dark terminal 

 line. Hind wing dirty grey-brown, paler in male ; a discoidal 



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