156 NOCTUIDiE. 



subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 veins 4 and 3, with dentate black marks before its medial part more 

 or less prominentlj^ continued as streaks to termen : a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia with a brown line through them. 

 Hind wing pure white. 



5 . Eather darker ; hind wiug with the terminal area suffused 

 with brown ; a dark terminal line, and line through the cilia. 



Ab, 1. lata. Larger, the antennas thicker, the fore wings more 

 variegated. — Mediterranean subregion. 



AJo. 2. golicai. Much paler ; fore wing with the ground-colour 

 ochreous-grey. — Armenia ; Persia ; C. Asia. 



Hah. Frakce ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Hungart, Frey Coll. ; 

 Spain; Sardinia; Italy {Leach); Sicily; Algiers: Greece* 

 S. Russia ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; W. Turkestan,, 

 Tekke, 1 S , Ferghana ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exi)., S 44, $ 48 millim, 



272, Euxoa lasserrei. 



Luperina lasserrei, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 86, pi. 11. ff. 13, 14 (lS8i);. 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. pp. 154, 254. 

 Helio2)hobus unctus, Christ, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 164; id. Eom. Meai. 



T. p. 25, pi. 2. f. 1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 

 Agrotis salmra, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 42. 



S • Head and thorax grey and pale red mixed with black ; palpi 

 blackish at tips ; tegulse with black medial line ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale red irrorated 

 and in parts clouded with fuscous ; a waved subbasal line from 

 costa to sabmedian fold : a waved antemedial line excurved below 

 costa and angled outwards above inner margin to postmedial line ; 

 claviform well developed, defined by black : cell clouded with fuscous, 

 the orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former elliptical ; 

 postmedial line dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line represented by 

 a series of whitish lunules with dentate dark marks before them, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and strongly dentate at veins 3 and 2 ; 

 the veins of terminal half Avith fuscous streaks ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules. Hind wing white; the veins slightly 

 tinged with brown ; some postmedial points on median nervules ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous ; a small 

 discoidal spot and a series of postmedial striae on the veins. 



Ab. 1. toncta. Fore wing not tinged with rufous. — Turkomania. 



Ilab. Algeria, 1 cf ; Tunis, Gabes type f,sabura in Coll. Mabille ; 

 Palestine ; W. Turkestan, Turkomania. Exp. 32 millim. 



273. Euxoa graslini. 



Agrotis grasHm, Kamb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1848, p. 70, pi. i. ff. 1 , 2 ; Hen-.- 

 Schiiti'. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 623 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. 



Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with white ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous, 

 the costal area and veins whitish ; an indistinct antemedial whitish 



