EUXOA. 181 



obsolete ; claviforra slightly outlined with black ; orbicular and 

 reniform grey, defined by black, the former wedge-shaped and 

 produced towards base, open above, the cell between the stigmata 

 black-brown ; traces of a postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; faint traces of a subterminal 

 line with slight black streaks before its medial portion ; a fine dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing white, the veins and a terminal line 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 

 Hah. S. EussiA, 1 S type, Leech Coll. ; Exp. 30 millim. 



309. Euxoa hastifera. 



Agrotis hastifera, Donz. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 525, pi. 8. f. 1 

 (neo f. 2) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. 



S . Head and thorax reddish or blackish brown, mixed with 

 purple-grey ; tegiilse with black medial line ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen brownish ochreous or greyish. Fore wing purplish 

 fuscous brown, with broad ochreous-white costal fascia extending to 

 postmedial line ; a black patch below base of cell ; an indistinct 

 obliquely curved antemedial line from cell to inner margin ; clavi- 

 form moderate, rlefined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 brownish centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former 

 round, the cell before and between them black; the postmedial line 

 indistinct, excurved from, costa to vein 4, then oblique ; the sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7, and 

 excurved at middle with some small denVate black marks before it 

 at middle ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; a terminal 

 series of black points and a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing white, the termen tinged with brown ; the underside with 

 very slight broAvn irroration on costal and terminal areas, and a 

 sliglat discoidal point. 



Hnh. S. Peance, Digne : Austria; Tkansxlvania ; S. Etjssia, 

 Sarepta (Ghristoph), 2 c? ; Akmenia; Asia Minor, Pontus ; Persia; 

 W. Siberia, Altai, 1 c? . Evp. 38 millim. 



310. Euxoa lutescens. (Plate LX. fig. 20.) 



Noctua lutescens, Blanch. Gray's Faun. Ohil., Ins. vii. p. 76 (1852). 

 Agrotis blanchardii, Berg, An. Soc. Avg. xiv. p. 281 (1882). 



S . Head and ihorax reddish brown mixed with ochreous, some 

 black at base of palpi, on frons and vertex of head ; tegulse with 

 black medial line ; patagia ochreous, edged with black and rufous ; 

 tarsi banded Avith black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 ochreous, some brown suffusion below base of cell ; a blackish sub- 

 basal line defined by ochreous on outer side from costa to vein 1 ; 

 the antemedial line dentate below costa and more strongly to the 

 orbicular in cell, then retracted, more prominent from cell to vein 1 

 and slightly angled in submedian fold, obsolete towards inner 

 margin ; claviform elongate, defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 orm small, ochreous defined by black, the former oblique, open 



