Euxoa obelisca

Forewing purplish brown; costa pale to outer line: cell dark brown; stigmata large, greyish ochreous: the claviform dark; hindwing in male white, with narrow grey shade along margin, in female more or less grey-tinged throughout.- in ab.

the forewing is more variegated, the submarginal line preceded by a row of distinct black teeth; - ab.

is also larger than typical; forewing ochreous grey with costa and both stigmata whitish, darker in the female; — ab.

the same size as type, forewing with more acute apex, deep shining violet brown, with traces of subterminal only: costa and stigmata (which are small) pale testaceous; the orbicular somewhat angulated, the reniform constricted in middle: claviform obsolete: the cell deep black; hindwing very dark; described from a female only from Lapland; omitted by Staudinger, but probably a distinct species: a very distinct form from the Urals, which may be called ab.

The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants, such as Helianthemum nummularium and Galium species.

Mounted
Figs 4, 4a larva after last moult