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EUXOA. 163 



them ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown ; a black discoidal spot. 



Hah. Hawaii, Maui (Blackburn), 1 c5' , 1 $ type, Kona (Perkins), 

 1 d . Exp. 42-46 millim. 



*283. Euxoa chretieni. (Plate LXV. fig. 2.) 



Euccoa chretieni, Dumont, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1903, p. 83. 



5 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; palpi black 

 except towards tips ; tegular with black medial line ; abdomen dark 

 brown slightly mixed with grey. Fore wing dark brown irrorated 

 with whitish ; a black streak below base of cell confluent with the 

 claviform. which is rather small and elongate ; antemedial line only 

 developed between cell and vein 1 where it is angled outwards, black ; 

 orbicular obsolete ; reniform brownish, with blackish centre and 

 defined by black, rather diamond-shaped : a series of black streaks 

 beyond the cell between veins 6 and 2 extending to the subterminal 

 line ; the postmedial line represented by a series of small vitta- 

 shaped black marks forming a W-mark in submedian interspace ; 

 the area beyond the si;bterminal line greyer ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, with blackish terminal 

 line ; the underside greyer, Avith slight discoidal spots and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. 8pain, Cataluna, La Granja, type t 5 in Coll. Dumont. 

 Exp. 42 millim. 



284. Euxoa repanda. (Plate LX. fig. 6.) 



Agrotis repanda, Wlk. xi. 742 (1857). 



Head and thorax grey -white and dark brown ; palpi with lateral 

 blackish patch ; tegulae brown at base and with black medial line ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing brown ; the veins black, defined bj' white streaks 

 on each side of them, less distinctly so towards costa ; the subbasal 

 line represented by black strigae from costa and median nervure, 

 defined by white on outer side ; the antemedial line black, defined 

 by white on iimer side, acutely dentate outwards below costa, angled 

 inwards on median nervure, excurved in submedian interspace and 

 dentate outx^ards to middle of wing above inner margin ; claviform 

 elongate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown 

 centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former produced on 

 outer side, the cell between the stigmata and a patch beyond the 

 reniform black-broAvn ; the postmedial line represented by double 

 black striae on costa and an incurved waved maculate line on its 

 inner edge from vein 5 to inner margin ; the subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, defined by a series of dentate black marks on its 

 inner edge and dentate outwards to termen at veins 7, 4, 3, 2 ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark brown ; the inter- 

 spaces of basal half whitish in male ; the underside white, with 

 large apical black patch, more or less fuscous on termen, and fine 

 terminal black line. 



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