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C Fore wing with the orbicular round. 



a. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with white. 



a}. Fore wing with the costal area and disk suffused with 

 riifons. 



rr. Hind wing white boetica. 



b~. Hind wing suffused with brown on terminal area . piet-reti. 

 b^. Fore wing with the costal area and disk whitish ... iansarotensis. 



b. Fore wing with the Teins streaked with white trificla. 



269. Euxoa obesa. 



Agrotis obesa, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 112 (1829) ; id. Icon. Le)3. Eur. pi. 7.5. 



ff. 1, 2; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 173, pi. 1() ; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. 



Eur. ii. pi. 5. f. 22 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. 

 Agrotis Ivpara, Rmbr. Ann. Soo. Ent. Fr. 1848, p. 68. 

 Agrotis scytha, Alph. Eom. Meai. \. p. 143 (1889). 



(S . Head and thorax yellow-brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; abdomen white tinged with ochreous. Pore 

 wing jellow-brow]), the interspaces suffused with fuscous brown 

 towards termen ; the subbasal line represented by black points 

 beloAV costa and cell ; the antemedial line obsolete except in sub- 

 median interspace, where it is blackish and angled outwards in the 

 fold ; claviform very large, somewhat quadrate, red-brown defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform red-brown, wit]i ochreous annuli 

 defined by black, the former large, diamond-shaped, and con- 

 nected with the reniform which is large ; the postmedial line 



big. 58. — Euxoa uhem, ^ . 



indistinct, blackish, defined by ochreous on outer side, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved round the reniform, then incurved ; a 

 subterminal series of ochreous lunules with dentate black marks on 

 their inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle : the veins of terminal area streaked with black and 

 defined by pale streaks ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and termen tinged with ochreous. 



$ . Hind wing with pale fuscous discoidal lunule and terminal 

 band. 



Ab. 1. scyilia : paler; the fore wing almost white. — 8. llussia; 

 W. Asia; Persia. 



Hal. 8. Peance, 4 (^ , 3 $ , Frey & Leech Colls. ; Spain ; Italy ; 

 Algepja : S, PtiTssiA ; Atoidnia, 2 rT ; Asia Minoe, Pontus ; Syria; 

 Persia; W. Turkestan, Turkomania. Exp. 'dQ m\\\\m. 



