310 ■ i!fOCTTJID^. 



552. Euxoa lidia. 



Xoct'ua lidia, Cram. Pap. Esofc. iv. p. 222, pi. 396. f. D (1782) ; Herr.- 



Scbaff. Eui\ Schmett., Noct. f. 27 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. 

 Agrotis inexpectata, Alph. Eom. Mem. ix. p. 158, pi. 11. f. 8 (1897). 



Head reddish brown or black mixed with white ; thorax black, 

 the basal half of tegnlse .white slightly mixed with rufous ; legs 

 black, ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft rufous. 

 Fore wing pale vinous red or grey, more or less completely suffused 

 with black ; the costal area and the area beyond postmedial line 

 pale ; a waved whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 a waved antemedial liue defined by whitish on inner side ; claviform 

 large, indistinctly deiined by black and ])ointed at extremity: 

 orbicular and reniform white with slight fuscous centres, the former 

 round or oblique, elliptical ; the postmedial line dentate, bent 

 outw^ards below costa, cxeurved to vein 4, then oblique, the area 

 beyond it purplish or reddish grey to the subtermiual line, which is 

 whitish, minutelj^ dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, defined b}" a series of dentate black marks on its inner 

 side and a whitish patch beyond it at apex ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; cilia brownish mixed with fuscous. Hind wing pale 

 suffused with fuscous brown, especially towards termen ; cilia 

 white, with a brown liue at base ; the underside white, the costa,! 

 and terminal areas sufl\ised with fuscous, a small discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. iae.vpectata. Larger ; fore wing with the costa and 

 stigmata grey. 



Hah. HoLLAiifD ; Jutland ; S.E. Gekmaxy, Zeller & Mutzell Colls. ; 

 E. Siberia, Ussuvi. E^vp. 3S millim. 



553. Euxoa oberthiiri. (Plate LXVII. fig. 1.) 



Agrotis oberthuri, Leeeh, Trans. Bnt. Soc. 1900, p. 30. 

 Agrotis tritici, Leech, Traus. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 29 (nee Linn.) 



Head and thorax red-brown ; tegulaj with black medial line ; the 

 extremities of tegulne and greater part of patagia often purplish 

 fuscous ; legs mostly black ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral 

 surface ochreous irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale red-brown 

 tinged with purple ; the costal area ochreous white at base, shading 

 to pale rufous towards apex ; the subbasal line rejjresented by a 

 black fascia below costa and a pale striga on the black fascia beloAv 

 base of cell ; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, angled 

 outwards below costa and above inner margin ; claviform defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform greyish defined by black and 

 their centres by fuscous, the former small, round or oblique, 

 elliptical, the cell before and between them and the disk beyond 

 the reniform suffused with black; the postmedial line minutely 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, 

 oblique below vein 4 ; the subterminal line pale, minutely waved, 

 excurved at vein 7 and middle, and defined on inner side by dentate 

 black marks below costa and between veins and 2, the area 



