206 



IfOCTriDJE. 



Fore wing whitish, suffusecT with yellow-brown above submcdiau 

 fold, in end of cell and above veins 2 to 6 ; the veins with slight 

 dark streaks ; the costa irrorated with fuscous with double dark 

 striae representing the subbasal, ante- and postmedial lines, and some 

 white points towards apex ; claviform elongate and defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former very elongate 

 and confluent with reniform ; the subterminal line represented by 

 a series of small whitish lunules, angled outwards at vein 7 ami 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 ochreous, with a slight dark line through them. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and a fine terminal line ochreous. 



Hah. PoKJAB, Y\voz])nr (Nurse), 1 J typo. E,rp. 32 millim. 



*341. Euxoa iiisertans. (Plate LXIX. fig. 10.) 



Agrotis ins'trfans, Smitli, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xrii. p. 45 (1893); id. Cat. 

 iN'ocl. N. Am. p. 89. 



S . leather sordid yellow ; tegulae with black medial line, the tips 

 sometimes more dusky ; thorax mixed with black scales; patagia 

 incompletely edged with black. Fore wing with the subbasal line 

 obsolete ; the antemedial line represented by a curved striga below 

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

 black-outlined claviform ; orbicular with fuscous centre, elongate, 

 and connected by a spur with the reniform, a continuous black line 

 defining both ; cell black before and between the stigmata ; a black 

 spot below reniform ; postmedial line obsolete ; subterminal line 

 pale, dentate to termen on veins 7, 6, 4, 3, with distinct black 

 intermediate dashes. Hind wing pure white ; the underside Avith 

 slight dark irroration. 



Hab. Canada, Br, Columbia, Spencer's Bridge. E.vp. 33 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type 

 in Brooklyn Tnst. Arts & Sci. 



342. Enxoa neoiriexicana. (Plate LXI. fig. 20.) 



Carneades neomcxinma, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 38 p. 218 (■1890)- 

 id. Cat. Nuct. N. Am. p. 88. t- ^ /, 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with rufous ; tegulte white 

 at base and extremity, with dark medial line followed by a rufous 

 band ; patagia white on outer side ; thoracic tuft white ;' abdomen 

 white, dorsally tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing 

 ochreous white suflused with rufous ; the costal area grey-white ; 

 the subbasal line indistinct from costa to submedian fold, angled 

 outwards in cell and submedian fold and inwards on median 

 nervure ; the claviform represented by a slight rufous streak ; the 

 orbicular and reniform whitish, with rufous centres and brown out- 

 line, the former obhciue, oblong, open above, the latter with some 

 fuscous at its lower end; the postmedial line indistinct, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; veins 3, 4 

 with dark streaks outlined with white ; the subterminal line 

 whitish, dentate, more strongly at veins 7, 4, 3 ; a terminal series 



