EUXOA. 



189 



"banded black and white ; abdomen whitish mixed with brown. 

 Fore wing bluish grey, irrorated and suffused with dull brown ; a 

 slight blackish streak below basal part of cell ; the subbasal line 

 double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; the antemedial line double, 

 ■waved, angled outwards in cell and inwards on median nervure and 

 vein 1 ; orbiciilar and reniform brown with grey annuli incompletely 

 defined by brown, the former small, somewhat V-shaped, the latter 

 constricted at middle ; traces of a curved medial shade ; postmedial 

 line defined by greyish on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, dentate and angled 

 outwards at vein 7, defined by a dark patch before it on costa, 

 the area beyond it darker at middle ; a fine pale line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing whitish, entirely suff'used with brown except parts 

 of interspaces of basal two-thirds ; cilia with brown line near base, 

 the tips white ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with fuscous brown, a small prominent discoidal spot and 

 a curved postmedial series of short dark striae on the veins. 



Hah. Canaries, Teneriffe, Santa Crux, type t S , Grand Canary, 

 1 § , in Mus. Vienna. Exp. 38 millim. 



326. Euxoa tibetana. (Plate LX. fig. 32.) 



Agrotis tihefana, Moore, A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 233 (1878) ; id. 2ncl Yarkand 



Mission, p. 10, pi. 1. f. 16. 

 Agrotis modesta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 351 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 188. 

 Agrotis monticola, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 183 (1894). 



Head and thorax grey-white pencilled with brown ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; tegulse with brown medial line ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey- 

 brown ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; a double waved antemedial line ; claviform slightly outlined 

 with black; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the 

 former rounded, open above, some blackish sufi'usion in cell between 

 them ; traces of a waved medial line ; the postmedial line indistinct, 

 double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, indistinct, 

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

 beyond it often rather darker ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia whitish, with a fuscous line through them. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; the cilia whitish, with fuscous line at base ; the underside 

 ochreous white, the costal area irrorated with brown ; a blackish 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the markings much more distinct. 



Hah. Lahotjl, 12,000 feet, type t (S monticola in Coll. Elwes ; 

 Leh ; Kashmir, 1 5 type modesta, Rajaori {Leech), 2 J , Goorais 

 Valley, 1 cJ , 3 $ , Barra Larcha {Mc Arthur), 1 c?, 2 $. Buy. 

 38 millim. 



