266 NOCTTJID^. 



470. Euxoa nrnstelina. 



Agrotis mustelina, Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xii. p. 249, pi. 6. f. 22 (1876); 



id. Eom. Mem. ii. p. 206, pi. 12. f. 6; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. 

 Agrotis centralis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 34 ; id. Iris, ix. p. 368, 



pi. 4. f. 10. 



Head and thorax grey irrorated with brown ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen whitisb, dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey-brown irrorated with 

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

 fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line ; claviform with its extremity 

 outlined with fuscous ; orbicular and reniform defined by fuscous, 

 the former round, open above, the cell before and between them 

 more or less tinged with fuscous ; a diffused waved medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the subtermirial line pale, defined by fuscous on 

 inner side, excurved at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3 ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 terminal area tinged with pale brown ; the underside whiter, with 

 discoidal dark point, slight postmedial series of dark striae on the 

 veins, and diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. centralis. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing darker, 

 the last with the markings more distinct. 



Sab. Asia. Miwok, Pontus ; N. Persia, Shahkuh, 1 J , 1 $ , 

 Zeller Coll. ; W. Tukkestan, Issyk Kul, 2 S , Hi, Saisan ; W. Sibekia, 

 Altai. Exy. 38-40 millim. 



471. Euxoa immixta. (Plate LXIV. fig. 26.) 



Agrotis immixta, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 259 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. 

 JSToct. N. Am. p. 79. 



(S . Head and thorax pale red-brown tinged with grey ; palpi 

 with the 1st and 2nd joints black at sides ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown and with ochreous towards 

 extremity. Fore wing pale reddish brown with slight dark 

 irroration ; the costal area to the postmedial line and the base of 

 inner area tinged with grey ; the subbasal line double, waved, 

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

 oblique, and arising from two black points on costa ; claviform obso- 

 lete ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, small, greyish ; the 

 postmedial line minutely dentate, double, arising from two black 

 points on costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line pale, indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, with some dentate dark marks on its inner side ; some black 

 points on termen. Hind wing whitish, the veins and marginal areas 

 strongly tinged with brown ; underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown ; a discoidal point and a postmedial series of points on 

 the veins of costal half. 



Ilab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 6 type. Exi). 40 millim. 



