EuxoA. 333 



a,nmili defined by black, the former produced to a point on inner 

 side, open above, and produced as a streak defined by black below 

 towards base, the latter with the lower part of its annulus pure 

 white ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, oblique below costa, 

 slightly incurved in discal fold and strongly below vein 4; the sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of ochreons points with 

 wedge-shaped black marks defined by ochreous on their inner side, 

 the dentate mark above vein 5 longer and above vein 4 continued to 

 reniform ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia intersected 

 with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal 

 area suflFused with ochreous brown ; cilia white, with a brown line 

 at base ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas thickly 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hah. France, Alps, type t (J in Coll. Oberthur ; Syria, 5 J , 1 $ , 

 Leech Coll. ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, Sarawschan. Exp. 36-40 

 millim. 



593. Euxoa improba. (Plate LXVII. fig. 25.) 



Agrofis improha. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 8 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 147. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; tegulas with black 

 medial line ; tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen grey -brown. Fore 

 wing grey mixed with brown ; the subbasal line represented by an 

 oblique striga from costa ; the antemedial line represented by an 

 oblique striga from costa, then obsolescent and excurved in inter- 

 spaces : a sinuous black streak from base below cell to the claviform, 

 which is elongate and defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 white annuli defined by black, the former open above, the black line 

 below it produced in cell towards base, produced to a point on outer 

 side, sometimes confluent with the reniform, w^hich is slightly angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line very ill-defined and 

 produced to long points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; 

 subterminal line very irregular and formed by strongly dentate grey 

 marks on veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 1, the area beyond it rather darker ; a 

 terminal series of black lunules ; cilia brown intersected with grey. 

 Hind wing brown ; the cilia whitish, with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside grey, the costal area and veins irrorated with 

 brown, the terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, Taschkent, 1 (^ , 1 5 . Exp. 

 38 millim. 



594. Euxoa multicuspis. 



Agrotis multicuspis, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1852, i. p. 152 (1856) ; Alph. Eom. 



Mem. vi. p. 27, pi. 2. f. 5 ; Stand Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. 

 Agrotis spinosa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 183. 

 Agrotis s-pinifera, Christ. Rom. Mem. i. pi. 7. f. 7 (1884), nee Hiibn. 

 Agrotis issykida, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 31. 



Head and thorax white mixed with pale and dark brown, tegulse 

 with dark band near tips ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen while 



