ANOMOGYXA. XESTIA. 593 



Ab. 1, meved. Browner; fore wing without the pinkish patch 

 on the reniform : hind wing more irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Z^oRWAY, Varanger, Bergen, 1 S , Zeller Coll. ; Swedei^, 

 Jemtland, type t cS mevesi in Mus. Stockholm, Lapland ; l!^. Sibebia, 

 Yerkhoiansk, 1 c? • E:cj). 46 millim. 



Genus XESTIA. 



Type. 



Xestia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 232 (1827) ocJireago. 



Hiptelia, Guen. Noct. i. p, 399 (1852) ochreago. 



Eicomorpha, Stand. Stetfc. ent. Zeit. slix. p. 24 (1888) antlqua. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 in front ; eyes large, rounded ; frous smooth ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair only ; the prothorax with ridge-like crest, the metathoras with slight crest; 

 tibise spined and fringed with long hair on outer side. Fore wing with the apex 

 somewhat produced and acute and the termen excised below it ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; (i, 7 from upper angle ; the 

 termen excised below apex. 



Sect. I. Antennie of male bipectinate, with moderate branches to near apex. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-brown. 



a. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete . . antiqiM. 



b. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines well- 



developed copfciii. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous ochreago. 



1032. Xestia antic[ua. 



EicomorpJia antiq;ua, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlis. p. 24 (1888) ; Alph. Rom. 

 Mem. ix. pi. 7. f. 5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1.54. 



S . Grey ; the vextex of head and thorax tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing with the subbasal line represeiited by some brown scales 

 below costa and cell ; some brown suffusion along vein 1 ; a small 

 brown spot at lower angle of cell ; the subterminal line represented 

 by a slight brown patch on costa, and very indistinct excurved 

 part at median nervules. 



Ilah. W. TuKKESTAN, Turcomania, Sarawschan, Ferghana, 1 c5" • 

 ExjJ. 46 millim. 



1033. Xestia coppeiii. 



Eicomorpha koppeni, Alph. Iris, vi. p. 346 (1896) ; id. Rom., Mem. ix. 

 p. 211, pi. 7. f. 6 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 



(5 . Head and thorax pale brown and whitish, with some fuscous 

 on middle of tegulse and base of patagia ; abdomen pale grey-brown. 

 Fore wing pale grey-brown, whitish at base ; the subbasal line repre- 

 sented by slight striae from costa, the antemedial line oblique, waved, 

 sometimes with a striga beyond it on costa ; traces of an oblique 

 elliptical orbicular stigma ; reniform small, indistinct, with a striga 

 above it on costa ; postmedial line dentate and produced to points on 

 the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, theii 



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