326 KOCTtriDiE. 



*578. Euxoa hirtipalpis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 18.) 



Agrotis hirtiiMlpis, Wlk. xi. 739 (1857). 



? Agrotis prtBstans, Mssn. Stiibel's Eeise, p. 143, pi. 6. f. 16 (1890). 



c? . Head and thorax dark red-brown ; tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Eore wing rufons irrorated with grey; an 

 indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold defined 

 by grey on outer side ; an oblique waved antemedial line angled 

 outwards below costa and defined by grey on inner side ; orbicular 

 and reniform very indistinctly defined by grey; an indistinct 

 curved waved medial line ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; no trace of sub- 

 terminal line. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and terminal 

 line brownish ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown and tinged with rufous, a small discoidal spot, an indistinct 

 postmedial line with short streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Colombia, Eogota, type f d" in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 48 

 millim. 



*579. Euxoa eremicola. (Plate LXIX. fig. 21.) 



Agrotis eremicola, Stndf. Iris, i. p. 217, pi. 10. ff. 7, 8 (1888) ; Stand. Cat, 

 Lep. pal. p. 146. 



S . Head and thorax pale ochreous slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; palpi with black patch at side of 2ad joint ; tarsi black 

 with pale rings ; abdomen white, dorsally irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous slightly irrorated with fuscous ; the sub- 

 basal line represented by a black striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line strong, slightly waved, nearly erect; claviform obsolete; 

 orbicular and reniform indistinct, pale, with square black spot 

 between them ; a medial striga on costa and an indistinct line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line pale, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, defined on inner side by black sufi'usion, the area beyond 

 it suffused with black ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 fuscous, with an ochreous line at base. Hind wing pure white, the 

 cilia brown from apex to vein 2. Underside pure white ; fore wing 

 with fuscous terminal band from costa to vein 2 ; hind wing with 

 the termen tinged with fuscous towards apex. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Kirghistan, Alexander Mts., in Coll. Plingeler. 

 Exp. 42 millim. 



580. Euxoa cirghisa. 



Agrotis vaUesiaca, Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett. p. 109, pi. 351. ff. 3, 4 (1842), 



nee Boisd. 

 Agrotis kirghisa, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1856, ii. p. 219, pi. i. f. 1,a,b; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 

 Agrotis squalorum, Ev. Bull. Mosc. ii. p. 22 (1856) ; Stndf. Iris, i. p. 218, 



pi. 10. f. 9 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 

 Agrotis squcdidior, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 



Head and thorax very pale red-brown mixed with black ; tegulse 



