184 NOCTUTD^. 



to black and white points on the veins, slightly bent outwards 

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

 line represented by a series of blackish and ochreoiis dentate marks 

 in the interspaces ; the terminal area darker below apex, a terminal 

 series of black points; cilia ochreous intersected with brown. Hind 

 wing hyaline white or the veins and costal area tinged with brown ; 

 a terminal series of points sometimes present. 



$ . Fore wing suffused with fuscous ; hind wing usually pale 

 fuscous brown. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll, ; Fkance ; Germaky, Zellev Coll. ; 

 Spain, Leech Coll., Gibraltar, 1 c? ; Algeria {Mrs. Niclioll), 1 $ ; 

 Syria ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, Turkomania ; Mongolia. Exp. 

 32 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 95 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 304, pi. 125. f. 2. 



Light fuscous, brownish ochreous above ; dorsal line darker, 

 double, traversing a series of freckled spots ; subdorsal line brown, 

 finely pale-edged below ; head and thoracic shield brown. Food- 

 plants : Polygonum, Taraxicum, Lactiica. 9-4. 



314. Euxoa poliotis, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 22.) 



(S . Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with white ; palpi 

 blackish at sides except towards extremity ; tegulge with blackish 

 medial line ; tarsi with blackish bands ; abdomen white, dorsally 

 tinged with pale brown. Fore wing grey, suffused with pale reddish 

 brown ; a waved whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold 

 defined by black ; a similar antemedial line strongly angled outwards 

 above inner margin ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform with fuscous centres and pale annuli defined by black, 

 the former rather small, round, sometimes connected with the latter 

 by a blackish streak; an indistinct diffused medial shade ; the post- 

 medial line double, the outer dentate and produced to points on the 

 veins, sinuous, incurved in discal and submedian folds ; the sub- 

 terminal line pale, minutely dentate, defined by brown suffusion or 

 dentate blackish marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved and dentate below middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white, the veins tinged with brown ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with brown. 



2 . Head, thorax, and usually the fore wing to the postmedial 

 line darker ; hind wing with the terminal area tinged with fuscous. 

 Hah. Queensland, Townsville, Ravenswood (Turner), 3 c? , 3 5 

 type. Exjy., cJ 36, $ 42 millim. 



315. Euxoa armena. (Plate LX. fig. 23.) 



Agrotis armena, Ev. Bull. Mosc. ii. p. 222 (1856) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 147. 

 Agrotis deserta, Staud, Berl. eut. Zeit. 1870, p. 112; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 149. 

 Agrotis obsoura, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 113. 



(5 . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with grey ; tarsi banded 



