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area to the postmedial line, the orbicular and reuiform, and the 

 area before the subterminal line whitish. 



Ab. 5. Hind wing entirely white, — Asia Minor. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; GEKMANr^ 

 Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Russia, Livonia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; Asia 

 Minor, Hadjin ; W. Turkestan, Turkomania, 1 $ ; E. Turkestan, 

 Hi ; Mongolia, Uliasatai, 1 c? , 2 $ , Changai Mts. ; Tibet, Amdo ; 

 Afghanistan, Quetta (SivinJioe), 1 c? , type cespitis. Exp. 34-38 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 94 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 329, pi. 129. 



Pale ochreous tinged with greenish ; dorsal line pale, green- 

 edged ; subdorsal and spiracular lines whitish, edged with grey or 

 greenish ; head pale ochreous. Food-plants : grasses, Arenaria, 

 Artemisia, etc. 5-6. 



437. Euxoa friabilis. (Plate LXIIL fig. 29.) 



Agrotis friabilis, Grote, Can. Ent. yii. p. 187, pi. 1. f. 5 (1875) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 99. 



5 . Head and thorax dull brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 

 palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides except at extremity ; 

 tarsi with blackish bands ; abdomen grey, strongly irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing dull brown, irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; 

 the subbasal line almost obsolete ; the antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, waved ; claviform indistinct, defined by a few black scales ; 

 the orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined by black, the former 

 rather elongate, elliptical, the latter well-developed with its centre 

 defined by fuscous ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved ; the 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, irregularly dentate, with a dark 

 mark on its inner side at costa ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white suffused with brown, especially on terminal half ; 

 the veins brown ; cilia white with a brownish line at base ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; 

 a discoidal point. 



Hah. Canada, 1 2 type, Qntario, London l^W, Saunders), 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., E. States, Maine, New York, Oregon, Dales, 2 S , Colorado, 

 California {Walsingham), 2 o . Exp. 36 millim. 



438. Euxoa nigricans. 



Noctua nigricans, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 322 (1761) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 149. 

 Noctua fumosa, Gmel. eel. Syst. Nat. 1. 5. p. 2574 (1788) ; Hiibn. Eur. 



Sohmett., Noct. f. 153 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. pi. 70. if. 3, 4 ; Steph. 111. 



Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 124. 

 Noctua rubricans, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 130. ff. 2, 3 (1786). 

 Noctua ursina, Godt. Lep. Fr. v. pi. 71. f. 3 (1824). 

 NoctiM fuliginea, Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f.602 (1827) ; Godt. Lep. Fr. 



vi. pi. 78. ff. 5, 6. 

 Noctua carbonea, Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. ff. 700, 701 (1827). 

 Noctua vilis, Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 511 (1827). 



