MICEAGEOTIS.— EDXOA. 



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incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4 ; some pale points 

 on costa toAvards apex ; the subterminal line defined by the brown 

 suffusion on its inner side and blackish on outer, bent outwards to 

 apex, angled inwards at discal fold, then excurved ; a terminal 

 series of black and white points. Hind wing ochreous white, the 

 costal and terminal areas suffused with brown ; a terminal series of 

 blackish striae ; the underside with black discoidal spot and indistinct 

 dentate postmedial line. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (Beiton), 1 c? type. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



Genus EUXOA. ^ 



Type. 



Euxoa, Hiibn. Vei-z. p. 209 (1827) decora. 



Ehyacia, Hilbn. Verz. p. 209 ( 1 827) liicipefa. ■ 



Mimetis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 210 (1827) decora. 



Metctxyia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 223 (1827) vifta. 



Exarnis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 225 (1827) obelisca. 



Scotia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 226 ( 1827 ) cinerea. 



Brotis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 226 (1827) nigricans. 



Agronoma, Hvibn. Verz. p. 227 (1827) crassa. 



Geori/x, Hiibn. Verz. p. 227 (1827) segetis. 



Telmia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 227 (1827).. cicrsoria.. 



Orthodes, Grnen. Noct. i. p. 371 (1852) t-nigrum. 



Tctrwpyrgia, Wlk. xxxiii. p. 71 1 (1865) albinasus. 



Elegardn, Wlk. xxxiii. p. 712 (1S65) : albinasus. 



Pleonectopoda, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 136 (1873). . . levisi. 



Orbifrons, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p. 187(1877) singularis. 



Car7ieades, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 4 (1883), nee Bates, Col. 



1869 moerens. 



Chorizagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxviii. p. 98 (1890) . auxiliaris. 



Bhizagrotis, Smith. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mas. xxxviii. p. 103 (1890) . acclivis. 



Agrotis, Hiibn. Tent, inecl segetis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 in front, the 3rd moderate; frons with truncate conical prominence with 

 raised rim ; vestiture hairy ; tibiae strongly spined ; pro- and metathorax with 

 rather spreading crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell , 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; male with the claspers bifurcate. 



Sect. I. (Agronoma). Antenna of male bipectinate to apex, with long bi-anclies. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate, elliptical. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular large. 



a^. Fore wing with the veins defined by whitish streaks, obesa. 

 b^. Fore wing with the veins not defined by whitish 

 streaks. 



cc^. Fore wing with the veins streaked with white.., polybela. 



b~. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with white . crassa. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular small. 



a^. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled outwards 



below the claviform graslini. 



b^. Fore wing with the antemedial line not angled out- 

 wards below the claviform lasserrei. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, elliptical rugifrons. 



