336 NOCTtriDvi:. 



the dark specimen formed by oclireous points defined on each side 

 bj' black and with black streaks on the veins before it towards costa ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; cilia whitish. Hind wing ochreous 

 white suffused with fuscous, paler towards base ; cilia whitish ; the 

 underside grey-white, with fuscous discoidal spot and terminal band. 

 Hah. Patagonia, Santa Cruz, type f in Mus. Paris. Exp. 34 

 millim. 



599. Euxoa lucipeta. 



Noctualncipeta, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 71 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. Ifi9 

 (1787) ; Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 120. f. 3 ; Hubu. Samml. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. f. 41 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. ii. p. 266, pi. 70. f. 3 ; Boisd. Icones, pi. 80. 

 f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 



Head and thorax clothed with ochreous hair, becoming fuscous and 

 grey at tips ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen ochreous. Fore 

 wing yellow, overlaid with fuscous grey, the ground-colour appearing 

 as irroration and in the markings ; a waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line angled inwards on the 

 veins ; claviform slightly defined by yellow ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by yellow, the former round ; the postmedial line dentate 

 and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subtermiiial line dentate, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excuj'ved at middle : cilia yellow and fuscous. 

 Hind wing ochreous brown, rather paler towards base ; the cilia 

 whitish at tips ; the underside ochreous, irrorated with brown on 

 terminal half. 



Hah. Feance ; Germany, Zeller & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hun- 

 gary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy ; Roumania ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus. Exj). 56 millim. 



600. Euxoa pygmaea. (Plate LXA'IL fig. 28.) 



Agrotis pygmcea, Bang-Haas, ined. 



Head and thorax black-brown and grey mixed ; tarsi with pale 

 rings ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing fuscous irrorated with grey 

 a diftused black streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line grey 

 indistinct, waved, oblique; claviform small, narrow, defined by black 

 orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by black 

 postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by greyish on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; a fine 

 white line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and ter- 

 minal area tinged with fuscous ; cilia white, with a fuscous lino 

 through them ; the underside with the costal area fuscous, irrorated 

 with grey ; a slight discoidal spot. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Syr Darya, 1 S ,1 2 • ^-W- ^^ millim, 



601. Euxoa nyctina, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. fig. 29.) 



rT . Fuscous brown ; head and thorax slightly mixed with grey. 

 Fore wing narrow, the margins subparallel, the apex rounded ; 



