ETJX0.4. 167 



nervure and obsolete towards inner margin ; claviform large, dark 

 brown with black outline ; orbicular elongate, elliptical, with brown 

 centre, pale annulus, and black outline ; reniform brown, with dark 

 centre and black outline, the cell between the stigmata dark brown ; 

 postmedial line formed by minute dark striae on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, dentate at veins 7, 4, 3, 2, and with 

 short dark streaks before it at middle ; a terminal series of dark 

 points ; cilia yellowish brown, with two fine dark lines through 

 them. Hind wing semihjaline white. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing uniformly tinged with fuscous ; 

 hind wing with the costal and inner areas tinged with brown. 



Hah. Perak ; Java (Horsjield), 2 (S type sig)iijicans, 3 $ type 

 and type orhicidaris, Samarang (Meijer), 1 J ; N. Australia, Pt. 

 Darwin, 2 c?. Exj)., 6 34, $ 40 millim. 



290. Eiixoa segetis. 



JSIoctiM segetum, Schiff. Wien. Verz. pp. 81, 252, ff. 3«, b (1776) ; Hiibn. 



Bur. Schmett., Noct. f. 147 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 181 ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 151. 

 Nocfua prcecox, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 359 (1827), nee Linn. 

 Nootuafervida, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 711 (1827). 

 Agrotis sicula, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 109 (1840). 

 Agrotis dimidia, Zell. Isis, 1847, p. 439. 

 Agrotis sicania, Guen. Noct. i. p. 275 (1852). 

 Agrotis marginaUs, Wlk. x. 339 (1856). 

 Agrotis obliuiosa, Wlk. x. 340 (1856). 

 Agrotis avcrsa, Wlk. x. 345 (1856). 

 Agrotis correcta, Wlk. x. 345 (1856). 



Agrotis denticulosa, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 168 (1860). 

 Agrotis conspurcata, Wlk. sxxii. 696 (1865) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi 147. 



f. 7 a. 

 Agrotis reptdsa, Wlk. xssii. 696 (1865). 

 Agrotis certificata, Wlk. xsxii. 697 (1865). 

 Agrotis ingrata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 162 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 



ii. p. 27, pi. 29. f. 9. 

 Agrotis pallida, Stgr. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 423. 

 Agrotis fucosa, Butl. Tr. Ent. See. 1881, p. 179. 

 Agrotis lassa, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 444. 



Fig. 59. — Euxoa segetis. (^ . 



(From Moths Ind vol ii.) 



S . Head and thorax pale brownish ochreous slightly irrorated 

 with black ; palpi brown at sides ; antennae brown ; tarsi banded 

 wdth fuscous ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 pale brownish ochreous striated with brown ; a double fuscous 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold interrupted at cell ; 



