EFXOA. 175 



Agrotis livonica, Teich. Stett. eat. Zeit. 1886, p. 169. 



Agrotis turatii, Staud. Iris, i. p. 216, pi. 10. f. 5 (1888) ; id. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 145. 

 Agrotis tephrina, Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 148 (1901). 



Head and thorax grey, irrorated with dark brown and tinged with 

 rufous ; palpi mostly black ; tegulse black at base ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen dark brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with dark brown ; 

 a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved 

 antemedial line ; a waved medial shade excurved at middle, the area 

 beyond it suffused with rufous ; reniform represented by a small 

 lunule ; postmedial line blackish defined by grey, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the 

 area beyond it rather greyer ; a terminal series of blackish points. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with rufous, especially in female ; the 

 underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with brown, a blackish 

 discoidal sj)ot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. alpigena. Paler ; fore wing violaceous grey with the 

 markings indistinct. 



Ab. 2. livonica. Much darker fuscous brown. 



Ab. 3. fusca $ . Large, black-brown. 



Ab. 4. tephrina. Small, the fore wing narrower, the markings 

 usually very distinct ; hind wing whiter ; $ sometimes with the 

 ground-colour black. — Britain. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Hungary, D'Emmick Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; S^ain ; 

 Italy ; Norway, Zeller Coll. : Turkey ; Eussia, Urals ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 32-42 millim. 



303. Euxoa crassilinea. (Plate LX. fig. 16.) 

 Agrotis crassilinea, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Men. iv. p. 168 (1860). 



5 . Head and thorax grey irrorated with black ; abdomen ochreous 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey irrorated with black ; an 

 indistinct waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, the outer strong, waved, and angled out- 

 wards above inner margin ; claviform slightly defined by black 

 above ; orbicular and reniform very slightly defined by black and 

 rufous, the former rounded ; the postmedial line double, the inner 

 rather strong, slightly sinuous, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; the subterminal 

 line represented by a series of black spots conjoined in places 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of black lunules. Hind wing with the basal half whitish bounded 

 by a sinuous medial line, the terminal half fuscous ; a fine black 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish, with fuscous line through them. 



Hah. Basutoland, Maseru (Oraivshay), 1 $ ; Cape Colony, type f 

 5 in Mus. Stockholm. Exj). 38 millim. 



