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MOTHS OF MESPOTAMIA AND. N: W. PERSEA. 
BY 
VARIOUS AUTHORS. 
Note.—Throughout this series of papers the following abbreviations are used 
for the collectors’ names and initials :— 
B. T.—Major R. Brewitt-Taylor, R.A.M.C.; P. A. B.—Capt. P. A. Buxton, 
R.A.M.C.; Br.—Major T. D. Broughton, R.E.; C.—Lt.-Col. F. P. Connor: W. 2. 
E.—Capt. W. E. Evans, R.A.M.C.; LZ. H.—Capt, L. Harrison; H. D. P.— 
Lt.-Col. H. D. Peile, I.M.S. 
[The specimens taken by Col. Connor and Major Broughton are in the 
B. N.H.S. Museum. No map is published, because all the localities mentioned 
will be found on the maps which accompany Major R. E. Cheesman’s paper on 
the Mammalia of Mesopotamia and Dr. P, A. Buxton’s paper on the Birds of 
N. W. Persia | 
Part I. 
NOCTUIDA, LEMONIIDA AND PYRALID2. 
BY 
Lorp RoruscHiILp, F.R.S. 
I have been asked to contribute the portion dealing with the above 3 families 
to this list of Mesopotamian and Western Persian Lepidoptera. As in the other 
portions of the paper the captors’ names are indicated by initials. 
The nature of the lepidopterous fauna as indicated by the insects of the above 
3 groups is decidedly Central Asian in character, though appertaining to the 
general desert fauna. As was to be expected, however, a few purely tropical 
forms are present. These are specially the 2 Noctuids Hrebus macrops, Linn and 
Hylodes caranea; Guen. All the types except that of Lemonia peilei are in the 
Tring Museum, 
NOoctTuIp®. 
Agrotine. 
1. Chloridea peltigera, Schiff. 
3, Mirjana, Dyala River, November, 1 Jebel Hamrin, June 1918, H. D. P.; 
13, Amara, Mesopotamia, July 1916, B. T. : 1, Amara, May 1918, P. A. B. 
2. Chloridea nubigera, Herr.—Sch. 
1, Amara, Mesopotamia, November 1918, P. A. B.; 1, Mirjana, Dyala 
River, June 1918, H. D. P. 
3. Euzxoa lata golicket, Ersch. 
13, Amara, Mesopotamia, November 1918, P. A. B.; 1 2, Mirjana, Dyala 
River, October 1918, H. D. P. 
Sir George Hampson and many other writers have erroneously placed lata, 
Treits and golickei, Ersch, as varieties of crassa, Hbn., but the much longer and 
differently arranged pectinations of the antenne of the two latter forms at 
once separate them from crassa. The 3 forms hitherto united under crassa 
must therefore stand as Huxoa crassa. Hbn.; Euxoa lata lata, Treibs. and Huzxoa 
lata golickei, Ersch. 
4. Huxoa lasserrei, Oberth. 
1 3, Khaniqin, Mesopotamia, November 1918, P. A. B. 
5. Huxoa messaonda matritensis, Vasq. 
1 Q, Baiji, River Tigris, November 1919, H. D. P. 
6. Huxoa segetum, Schiff. 
1 2, Mirjana, Mesopotamia, December 1918, H. D. P. 
7. Huxoa spinifera, Hiibn. 
