EUXOA. 215 



area and a terminal fuscous line ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nevada, cotj-pef in Coll. J. B. Smith, California 

 ( Walsingham), 1 (S . Exp. 36 millim. 



360. Euxoa acuminifera. 



Hadena acuminifera, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1854, p. 188; id. 1856, p. 34; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Neue Schmett. ff. 17, 18; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. 



c? . Head and thorax olive-brown mixed with fuscous and white ; 

 palpi blackish, white at tips ; frons white below ; tegulse with blackish 

 medial line; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white. Fore wing 

 pale reddish brown irrorated with black ; the costal area whitish to 

 the postmedial line, nearly pure white at base ; a black streak below 

 base of cell; median nervure streaked with white ; antemedial line 

 whitish, slightly defined by black, angled outwards below costa and 

 in submedian fold ; claviform small, defined by black and with a 

 pale streak from it to subterminal line ; orbicular and reniform with 

 pale brown centres irrorated with a few black scales and narrow 

 white annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical ; the post- 

 medial line hardly dentate, slightly defined by pale colour on outer 

 side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by small dentate black 

 marks on inner side ; the veins of terminal area streaked with black 

 and veins 7, 4, 3 slightly defined by white streaks near subterminal 

 line; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia pale brown, 

 whitish at base and with fuscous medial line. Hind wing white, the 

 termen very slightly tinged with brown and with fine brown terminal 

 line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a 

 small discoidal spot, and postmedial series of short streaks on the 

 veins. 



liab. Russia, Astrachan, Bogdo, 1 c? ; W. Tukkestan, Khirghis, 

 Turcomania. Exp. 38 millim. 



361. Euxoa submolesta. (Plate LXII. fig. 5.) 



Agrotis submolesta, Piang. Iris, xii. p. 291, pi. 8. f. 14 (1900) ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 148. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulae with prominent 

 black medial line ; abdomen pale brown. Pore wing pale grey- 

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

 a double waved antemedial liue with some fuscous-grey suffusion 

 before ifc on costal area ; claviform moderate, prominently defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round, a 

 brown streak in discal fold between the stigmata and from reniform 

 to postmedial line, which is dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excarved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line represented 

 by a series of pale dentate marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, with more or less prominent dentate dark marks 

 before them at middle and some brown suffusion beyond them below 



