326 NOCTUID^. 



*578, Euxoa hirtipalpis. (riate LXVIT. fig. 18.) 



Agroih hirtipalpis, Wlk. xi. 739 (1857). 



'I Ayroiis prcBstans, Mssu. Stiibel's Reise, p. 143, pi. 6. f. 16(1890). 



cS . Head and thorax dark red-brown ; tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing rufous irrorated with grey; an 

 indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold defined 

 by grey on outer side ; an oblique waved antemedial line angled 

 outwards below costa and defined by grey on inner side; orbicular 

 and reniform very indistinctly defined by grey; an indistinct 

 curved waved medial line ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; no trace of sub- 

 terminal line. Hind wing semihyalinc white, the veins and terminal 

 line brownish ; the underside with the costal area iri'orated with 

 brown and tiuged with rufous, a small discoidal spot, an indistinct 

 postmedial line with short streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota, type f c? in Mus. Oxon. Eaj). 43 

 millim. 



*579. Euxoa eremicola. (Plate LXIX. fig. 21.) 



Jr/wiis crrmicola, Stiidf. Iris, i. p. 217, pi. 10. ff. 7, 8 (1888) ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 14(5. 



S. Head and thorax palo ochreous slightly irrorated witli 

 fuscous ; palpi with black patch at side of 2ud joint ; tarsi black 

 with pale rings ; abdomen white, dorsally irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous slightly irrorated with fuscous ; the sub- 

 basal line represented by a black striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line strong, slightly waved, nearly erect ; claviform obsolete ; 

 orbicular and reniform indistinct, pale, with square black spot 

 between them ; a medial striga on costa and an indistinct line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line pale, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, defined on inner side by black suffusion, the area beyond 

 it suff'used with black ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 fuscous, with an ochreous line at base. Hind wing pure white, the 

 cilia brown from apex to vein 2. Underside pure white ; fore wing 

 with fuscous terminal band from costa to vein 2 ; hind wing with 

 the termen tinged with fuscous towards apex. 



Hah. "VV. TtJRKESXAi^, Kirghistan, Alexander Mts., in Coll. PLingeler. 

 Exp. 42 millim. 



580. Euxoa cirgliisa, 



Agrotis vallesiaca, Fit. Beitr. Eur. Schmett. p. 109,.pl. 351. if. 3, 4 (1842), 



iiec Boisd. . . 



Ar/rotib kirghisa, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1856, ii. p. 219, pi. i. f. 7, «, h; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 

 Agrotis squalorum, Ev. Bull. Mosc. ii. p. 22 (1856) ; Stndf. Iris, i. p. 218, 



pi. 10. f. 9 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 

 Agrotis squcdidior, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 



Head and thorax very pale red-brown mixed with black ; tegulae 



