25S NOCTUID^. 



to inner margin ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; the 

 subterminal line grey, with a slight rufous shade on its inner side 

 and slightly dentate at veins 7, 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunulas. Hind wing brown, the veins rather darker ; cilia 

 whitish, with a dark line near base ; the underside whitish, with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a small discoidal 

 lunule and rather ill-defined curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 2 $ type, Grote Coll. Exy. 40 millim. 



453. Euxoa hilaris. 



Agrotis hilaris, Frr. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. iii. p. 89, pi. 255. f. 4 (1839) ; 



Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 545 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. 

 Agrotis conifera, Christ. Hor. Soc. Eiit. Ross. xii. p. 249, pi. 6. f. 23 (1877). 

 Agrotis incognita, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 11 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 147. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen pale 

 grey-brown. Eore wing dull grey-brown irrorated with fuscous ; a 

 double, waved, antemedial line ; claviform outlined with black ; 

 orbicular and reniform outlined with black, the former rounded : 

 the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and 

 strongly below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, defined 

 by slight dentate dark marks on inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale brown ; the under- 

 side whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a 

 dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. incognita. Fore wing with the claviform smaller and 

 filled in with black. 



Ab. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing reddish brown, the claviform 

 obsolescent. — Persia. 



Hab. Armenia, Caucasus {Gh-istoph), 3 c? , 2 $ ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus ; Persia ; W, Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 J , Ferghana, 

 Sarawschan ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Kentei. Exjj. 36 millim. 



454. Euxoa terrena. (Plate LXIV. fig. 11.) 



Carneades terremis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 436 (1900). 



J . Head and thorax brownish grey slightly irrorated with black ; 

 tegulse with slight black medial line : tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey slightly irrorated 

 with black ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold • the antemedial line double, waved, black ; claviform indicated 

 by a few black scales ; orbicular and reniform grey, incompletely 

 defined by black, the cell before and between them tinged with 

 black ; an obscure waved medial line angled outwards on median 

 nervure ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, 



