226 NOCTUIDiE. 



386. Eiixoa cursoriodes, n. sp. (Plate LXII. fig. 27.) 



J . Head and thorax brownish white, slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; palpi fuscous at sides ; tegulse with fuscous medial line ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wiug 

 reddish ochreous; a dentate subbasal blackish line from costa to 

 submedian fold, a waved antemedial line produced to a long tooth 

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

 and reniform with brownish centres and ochreous annuli defined by 

 brown; postmedial line highly dentate, bent outwards below costsi, 

 cxcurved to vein 4 and incurved in submedian fold ; the subterminal 

 line indistinct, whitish, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and ex- 

 curved at middle, with slight dentate dark marks on its inner side at 

 middle and brownish suffusion beyond it ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and termen tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with slight discoidal spot and postmedial 

 series of strife on the veins and traces of a line towards costa. 



JJab. Syria, 1 d type. Leech Coll. E.v^). 38 millim. 



387. Euxoa heringi. 



Agrotis heringi, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877 (March), p. "181 ; Christ. Hor. 



8oc. Ent. Koss. xii. p. 248, pi. 6. f. 21 (1877 June); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 145. 

 Agrotis signafa, Stand. Iris, xii. p. 364 (1899). 



(5 . Head and thorax ochreous with a fulvous tinge ; palpi 

 tinged with fuscous at sides ; abdomen ochreous white. Pore wing 

 ochreous, tinged with fulvous and irrorated with fuscous ; a very 

 indistinct waved antemedial line ; faint traces of orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata ; a very indistinct dentate postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, escurved to vein 4, then incurved ; traces of 

 a subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, the area beyond it slightly tinged with fuscous. Hind 

 w'ing ochreous white ; the veins brownish ; the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown. 



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



Bah. Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; Persia, Scharud, 2 ^ , Zeller 

 Coll. Exp. 36 millim. 



*388. Euxoa serricornis. 



Agrotis serricornis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 458 (1887) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 94. 



Eeddish ochreous with darker irroration ; thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales. Fore wing with the subbiisal and antemedial lines 

 double, the latter somewhat oblique and excurved in interspaces ; 

 claviform obsolete ; orbicular obsolescent, with very faint pale 

 annulus ; reniform fuscous, with indistinct pale annulus ; post- 

 medial line represented by a double series of points on the veins ; 

 subterminal line distinct, pale, izTegularly sinuous, defined on inner 

 side by a dark shade, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous. 



