182 NOCXUID^. 



above, the lower part of cell between them black ; postmedial line 

 double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal Jine represented by an 

 indistinct series of small dentate dark marks and a dark patch before 

 it on costa ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline white. 



5 . Fore wing suiiused with fuscous brown, leaving a diffused 

 ochreous streak below basal two-thirds of costa and patch at apex. 



Hah. Chili, Valparaiso {J. J. Walker), I cS , ^ 2 - ^'^'p- 

 42 millim. Type t § in Mus. Paris. 



311. Euxoa araucaria, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 21.) 



(S . Head and thorax clothed with pale red-brown, fuscous, and 

 grey scales ; tegulse with black medial line ; patagia grey, edged 

 with black and pale brown above ; tarsi fuscous, ringed with white ; 

 abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing whitish, irrorated and 

 suffused with pale brown ; the basal and costal areas suli'used with 

 black ; a double waved subbasai line from costa to submedian fold : 

 a double waved antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and 

 very strongly above inner margin ; claviform moderate, blackish, 

 defined by deep black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres 

 and whitish annuli defined by black, the former small and produced 

 to a point on outer side, a brown fascia in cell between the stigmata ; 

 an indistinct oblique waved line from cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the 

 terminal area suffused with brown, Avith traces of a pale dentate 

 subterminal line. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged 

 with brown; the underside with discoidal point and postmedial 

 series of dark streaks on the veins. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing pale brownish irrorated with black, but without 

 black suffusion. — Argentina. 



Hah. Chili, Valparaiso {J. J. Walker), 1 J type ; Aegextina, 

 Andes {Fitzgerald), 1 S • Exp. 40 millim. 



312. Euxoa obelisca. 



Xoctua obelisca, Scbiff. Wien. Verz. p. 223 (1776) ; Hiibn. Samuil. Eur. 



Sclimett, Noct. f. 123 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 214, pi. 64. f. 3 ; Steph. 111. 



Brit. Ent., Haiist. ii. p. 124 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. 

 Nodua ruris, Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct f. 41(i (1827). 

 Noctua pratkola, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. .567 (1827). 

 Noctuafictilis, Hiibn. Eui-. Schmett., ISoct. f. 710 (1827). 

 Agrotis vil/iersii, Guen. Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. 1837, p. 173, pi. 8. if. 1, 2; 



Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 532. 

 Agrotis declarans, Wlk. x. 347 (1856). 



S . Head and thorax fuscous mixed Avith grey ; tegulfe with 

 blackish medial line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-brown. 

 Fore wing purplish brown, the inner and terminal areas paler ; the 

 costal area suffused with white to the postmedial line; a black 

 streak below base of cell : an indistinct subbasai line curved from 



