ETJXOA. 179 



Larva. Mill. Ann. Soc. Lyon, (2) xix. p. 41, pi. 112. ff. 1, 2 (1872). 



Greenish-grey ; the dorsum ochreous ; dorsal line double, brown ; 

 subdorsal line dark ; supra- and substigmal lines whitish with 

 darker edges ; head and thoracic shield ochreous. Food-plant, 

 grasses. 



305. Euxoa distinguenda. 



Agrotis distinguenda, Led. Noct. Eur. p; 221 (1857) ; Herr.-Scbaff. Neue 



Schmett. ff. 60-61 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. 

 Agrotis aquilina, Boisd. Icones, pi. 77. f. 6 (nee Hiibn.). 

 Agrotis liastifera, Donz. Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. 1847, pi. 8. P. 2 (nee f. 1). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with black and grey ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen ochreous brown, the ventral surface whitish 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey, suJ[Fused with fuscous 

 brown ; the subbasal line whitish, defined by black on inner side 

 and angled outwards on median nervure ; the antemedial line 

 oblique, waved, defined by Avhitish on inner side, strongly angled 

 outwards below costa and slightly above inner margin ; claviform 

 large, prominently defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former elliptical, 

 oblique, the cell before and between them and the area between 

 reniform and postmedial line suffused with black ; the j)ostmedial 

 line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 

 4, then incurved, the area beyond it pale ; the subterminal line 

 represented by a series of pale points with dentate black marks on 

 their inner side, the area beyond it suft'used by fuscous indented by 

 grey dentate marks defining veins 3, 4, and a patch at apex ; a 

 terminal series of minute black lunules. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and a fine terminal line brown ; the underside with the costa 

 tinged with ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown, a small 

 discoidal spot. 



Hah. S. Prance, Ardeclie, 1 5 Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland 

 (Anderegg), 1 c? D'Emmick Coll., Valais ; Htjngart ; "VV. Siberia, 

 Altai. Kv2^. 34 millim. 



306. Euxoa christophi. (Plate LX. fig. 17.) 



Agrotis christophi, Stand. Berl. eut. Zeit. 1870, p. 110; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 150. 

 Agrotis lugens, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 111. 



J . Head and thorax brown, mixed with grey and black ; tegul^ 

 with black medial line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore 

 wing pale ochreous or grey-brown, the costal area paler except the 

 costa itself to the postmedial line ; a black streak below base of cell 

 crossed by an oblique pale striga representing the subbasal line ; 

 the antemedial line obsolete except between subcostal nervure and 

 vein 1, angled inwards on median nervure, then excurved ; claviform 

 small, black, or filled in with black, and with a dark streak from it 

 in submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres 

 and pale annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the 



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