EuxoA. 327 



with medial blackish line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with red-brown. Eore wing pale red-brown strongly 

 irrorated with black ; a waved snbbasal black line from costa to 

 submedian fold, a black spot on costa between it and the antemedial 

 line, which arises from a costal spot, is angled inwards in cell and 

 on vein 1 and outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin ; 

 claviform with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by black, the former somewhat elliptical, 

 a waved medial shade passing between them ; the postmedial liue 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in 

 discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, defined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks and 

 with blackish suffusion beyond it ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white, the veins and the terminal area tinged with 

 brown ; in female wholly suffused with brown. Underside white, 

 the terminal area of fore wing suffused with fuscous, of hind wing 

 towards costa only. 



Ab. 1. squalidior. Rather paler; fore wing brownish grey, the 

 markings more distinct; hind wing with the terminal area brownish 

 in male. — Taurus ; Persia. 



Ab. 2. squalonim. Hind wing of male with the veins only 

 tinged with brown, and in the female the terminal area. 



Hub. S.E. E-ussiA ; Armenia; Stria, 1 cf, 1 2 ; Persia, 1 J? 

 1 5 ; W. Turkestan, Kirghistan, Issyk-kul, 1 c? , Alexander Mts., 

 1 d" , 1 5 ; W, Siberia, Altai ; E. Titrkestan, Hi ; Kashmir, Dras 

 (Leech), 1 $ . Ea.^p. 36-40 millim. 



581. Euxoa clara. 



Agrotis clara, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 4 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 

 Agrotis celebrafa, Alph. Eom. Mem. ix. p. 209, pi. 8. f. 8 (1897) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 

 Agrotis verecunda, Piing. Soc. Ent. xiii. p. 58 (1898) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 146. 



Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi black except at tips ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with fuscous ; a waved 

 blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved 

 blackish antemedial line arising from a small costal spot ; a 

 waved medial line angled outwards at lower angle of cell ; the 

 postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; an obscure diffused subterminal line angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing ochreous white, tinged with fuscous 

 especially on terminal half ; cilia white ; the underside white, with 

 discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. celebrata. Eather darker : fore wing with the markings 

 more prominent. 



Ab. 2, verecunda. Paler and with less dark irroration. 



