332 NOCTTIID.'E. 



591. Euxoa signifera. 



Noctua signifera, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (177G) ; Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 

 p. 71 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schiaett., Noct. f. 132; Goclt. Lep. Fr. i'l. p. 230, 

 pi. 66. f. 3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. 



Agrotia orientis, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xvii. p. 54 (1882). 



Agrotis improcera, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. t). 



Head and thorax sjrey mixed with dark brown or red-browu ; 

 tcgulsB with black medial line, patagia edged with black scales 

 above ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous or grey 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey- white, suffused and irrorated 

 with dark brown or pale rufous ; a black streak below base of cell 

 confluent with the elongate black-defined claviform ; the subbasal 

 line represented by double black striae from costa ; the antemedial line 

 waved, double at costa, and angled outwards below costa and above 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and 

 whitish annuli defined by black, the former more or less produced 

 to a point on outer side, sometimes confluent with the latter, a black 

 streak in lower part of cell interrupted by the stigmata and con.- 

 tinued to the subterminal line ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and 

 strongly below vein 4 ; the subterminal line represented by an 

 obscure series of dentate brownish marks, with a short black streak 

 above vein 6 and the fascia above vein 5 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia intersected with fuscous. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and a terminal line brownish ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. improcera. Paler ; fore wing with the transverse lines 

 hardly traceable. — Armenia ; Syria ; Persia ; C. Asia. 



Ab. 2. orientis. Almost unicolorous ; the fore wing ashy grey 

 with the dark basal fascia. — Persia, Hi. 



Hah. Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Prey Coll. ; Pussia, 

 Sarepta {Christoph) ; Armenia, Caucasus, 2 $ ; Asia Minor, Pontus, 

 Taurus ; Syria, Leech Coll. ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, Khurdistan, 

 Fergana, Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 § . 

 Exp. 34-40 millim. 



592. Euxoa celsicola. (Plate LXYII. fig. 24.) 



Agrotis celsicola, Eell. Ann. Soo. Ent. Fr. 1859, p. 190, pi. 5. f. 5 ; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Neue Schmett. f. 126 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. 



Head and thorax red-brown, mixed with black and some white 

 scales ; tegula3 with black medial line and tipped with black, 

 patagia edged with black above ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen ochreous brown, the ventral surface irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing red-brown, with some whitish irroration ; the veins with 

 fine black streaks, the interspaces with ditf'used fuscous streaks ; a 

 sinuous black streak in base of submedian fold running into the 

 elongate ochreous black-defined claviform, which is pointed at 

 extremity ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and pale 



