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Euxoa flutea n. sp. 



Ground color dull fusco-luteous. Collar with a diffuse whitish shade 

 below a distinct black median transverse line; tip whitish. Disc gray, 

 patagia with an obscure sub-margin. Primaries with all the macula- 

 tion black, broken, incomplete. Costal area whitish to the t. p. line. 

 Basal line marked only by a break in the black longitudinal mark that 

 extends from base to t. a. line below the median vein. T. a. line 

 single, marked by a black spot in cell, a distinct lunule in sub-median 

 interspace, and an obscure lunule below vein 1. T. p. line single, a 

 very little outcurved over cell, rigidly oblique below to the inner mar- 

 gin, consisting of a series of interspaceal blotches which are fairly well 

 defined outwardly, but are inwardly diffuse. S. t. line defined by a 

 few white scales, preceded by a series of black sagittate spots of almost 

 equal size, and arranged in a rigidly oblique series. A lunulate black 

 terminal line, followed by a yellow line at base of fringes. Claviform 

 concolorous, outlined in black, extending half way or more across the 

 median space, a pale streak extending outwardly beyond it through 

 the t. p. line. Orbicular oblique, oval or somewhat elongate, touch- 

 ing the pale costal area, but hardly opening into it ; distinctly black 

 ringed, with a narrow white inside edging, centre concolorous. Reni- 

 form varying from crescent-shaped to oblong, upright, black ringed 

 with a white inner edging, centre a little paler than ground. Median 

 vein white ; veins 3, 4, 6 and 7 rayed, but not prominently so. Sec- 

 ondaries uniformly smoky, yellowish, with white fringes. Beneath 

 smoky, costal region paler and powdery. 



Expands, 1.20 inches = 30 mm. 



Hab. — California, Sierra Nevada. 



Two females in good condition. One of them has no defi- 

 nite locality, the other is No. 9926 of the Henry Edwards 

 collection, and belongs to the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



The species is undoubtedly mixed in collections with others 

 of the 4-dentata series. In fact, I have seen examples labelled 

 4-dentata and oblongistigma. It differs from both by the 

 blotch median lines, and by the remarkably even series of 

 sagittate interspaceal marks that precede and define the s. t. 

 line. In addition, the wings seem unusually short and nar- 

 row, in proportion to the very long abdomen, which exceeds 

 the anal angle of secondaries by fully one-third its length. 



Euxoa rabiata n. sp. 



Ground color deep smoky brown, over dull, dark luteous ; more or 

 less powdered with whitish. Head concolorous. Collar with a black 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVI. NOVEMBER, 1910. 



