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NOCTUIDJE. 



defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 pale, suffused with fuscous brown except in interspaces towards base ; 

 cilia pale with a brown line through them ; the underside white, 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, a sinuous post- 

 medial line with the area beyond it more or less suff'used with 

 fuscous and with large black apical patch. 



Hah. Australia, 1 S type rubrilinea, 1 $ type albinasus ; 

 Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 3 c? , 3 $ ; K. S. Wales, Moreton 

 Bay (Diggles), 6 c? , 1 $ , types dorsicinis, alhipalim, peetinata, and 

 orthosioides, Sydney {Raynor, Rietmann), 13 S ■, 4 § ; Yictokia, 

 Gisborne (Lyell), 2 c? , 1 ? , Melboarne (Lucas), 1 S ; Tasmania, 

 2 d" , 1 5 , tyjDes recondita^grajphiphorides, and summa. Exp. 32-46 

 millim. Type f in Mus. Paris ; type t $ lapidosa in Mus. Oxen. 



288. Euxoa longidentifera, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 10.) 



Head and thorax red-brown, more or less strongly mixed with 

 grey and black ; palpi blackish at sides ; pectus with some white 

 hair ; abdomen white, more or less strongly tinged on dorsum with 

 ochreous or fuscous and ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing grey-brown tinged with fuscous, sometimes purplish grey or 

 rufous, the costal area suff'used with' fuscous ; an indistinct waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double waved ante- 

 medial line acutely angled outwards below costa and very strongly 

 above inner margin ; claviform elongate, fuscous defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres, and grey annuli defined 

 by black, the former produced to a point on outer side, the latter 

 moderate ; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct pale 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 with a series of small dentate brown marks on its inner side, the 

 area beyond it usually darker ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white ; female with the veins and margins tinged with 

 brown. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Muthambi (Crawsliay), 1 $, Machakos 

 (Crawsliay), 1 cJ, Kikuyu (Betton), 1 S type; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury (Marsliall), 1 cJ ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 3 cJ , 5 $ , 

 Durban (Gooch), 1 c? ; Basutoland, Maseru (Crawsliay), 2 (S ; 

 Madagascar, Diego Suarez. Exp., cS 34, 2 40 millim. 



289. Euxoa interjectionis. (PlateLX.fig.il.) 



Agrostis interjectioivis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 281 (1852). 

 Agrostis orbicularis, Wlk. xxxii. 700 (1865). 

 Agrostis significans, Wlk. xxxii. 700 (1865). 



S . Pale grey-brown ; sides of palpi and frons dark brown ; 

 tegulae with black medial line ; abdomen white. Fore wing with 

 the basal area tinged with fuscous brown on basal half; a pale 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a dark antemedial line 

 defined by whitish on inner side, slightly angled inwards at median 



