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S . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale broAvn and a 

 few black scales ; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity ; 

 tefful^e with dark medial line ; tarsi black, ringed with white : 



Fig. 60. — Euxoa sjyinifera, cT. \. 



abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ocbreous. Eore wing pale 

 oehreoiis with a violaceous tinge and slight fuscous suffusion, 

 especially on costal area ; the veins slightly streaked with fuscous ; 

 an indistinct double subbasal line from costa to submediau fold; 

 the antemedial line represented by oblique double striae from eosta 

 and a slightly curved line from median nervure to vein 1 ; the 

 claviform very elongate lanceolate, strongly defined by black and 

 filled in by dark brown ; the orbicular and reniform with fuscous 

 centres and ocbreous annuli defined by black, the former elliptical 

 and with its outer edge produced to a point, often open above, the 

 latter often angled inwards on median nervure, a black fascia 

 between them in cell and slight streaks from, outer edge of reniform ; 

 the postmedial line hardly traceable, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, 

 dentate to termen on veins 7, 4, 3, with dentate black marks on its 

 inner side at middle and the area beyond it blackish except towards 

 apex and tornus ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 semihvaline white, the costal area suffused with ocbreous, a fine 

 terminal line on costal half. 



$ . TJsually darker ; hind wing with the veins, costal and 

 terminal areas tinged with fuscous. 



JIah. S. France ; Spain ; Italy ; Sicily ; Canaries ; Algiers, 

 type t 2 hodnce in Coll. Oberthur ; Egypt ; Eritrea, Massowah 

 (Barher), 1 ? ; British East Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 c? , 

 1 2 , Kikuyu {Crcmshay), 1 d , 2 $ , Eb Urru {Betton), 1 c? , 1 $ ; 

 Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 c5' , 2 $ ; Transvaal {Ross), 

 1 (S ; Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 c? , 1 5 , Durban {Gooch, 

 Leigh), 1 c5" , 1 $ ; Basutoland, Maseru {Grawshay), 2 (S ; Cape 

 Colony, type t 6 ferina in Coll. Eothschild, (A. Smith, Drer/e) 

 4 ($ ; Syria; Persia, Fao (Cnmm'inf/), 1 S ', Kashmir, Narkund ah 

 {McArthur), 1 S ; Kulti, SultaniDur {G. Youm/), 1 d,l 2 ; Punjab, 

 Simla {Sivinhoe), 2 $ , Kangra {Hoclcing), 1^,7$, Cambellpur 

 {Yerhury), 3 S\ Jubbulpore {Butler), 2 $, Manpuri, 1 cj , 1 ? , 

 Allahabad, 2 $ ; Bengal, Calcutta, 2 $ ; Bombay {Swinhoe), 1 $ , 

 Poona, 1 2 ; Nilgiris {Hampson), 2 $ ; Qy^xlos {Templeton), 1 $ , 

 Trincomali {Yerhury), 1 d" , 1 $ ; Burma, Myngyan {Watson), 

 1 $ . Exjy. 26-40 millim. 



