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347. Euxoa piigionis. (Plate LXI. fig. 25.) 

 Carneades pugionis, Smith, Pi*. U.S. Nat. Mub. xxii. p. 419 (1900). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with reddish brown ; 

 abdoinen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing red-brown ; 

 the costal area yellowish white to near apex ; the inner area 

 yellowish white ; two subbasal black points below cell ; the ante- 

 medial line black, obsolete except from subcostal nervure to vein 1 

 and angled inwards on median nervure ; claviform slightly defined 

 by black with a yellowish fascia from it to subterminal line; orbicular 

 and reniform with brownish centres and yellowish annuli defined 

 by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above ; median nervure 

 streaked with white ; the postmedial line punctiform, black, bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, 

 obsolete below vein 1 ; veins 3, 4, 6, 7 defined by dentate white 

 streaks to near termen intersecting the subterminal line, which is 

 represented by a series of small dentate black spots in the inter- 

 spaces ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia yellowish at 

 base, brownish at tips. Hind wing pure white, the termen very 

 slightly tinged with brown. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Calgary, 1 S ; U.S.A., Colorado 

 (Bruce), 1 S • Exp. 30 milllim. 



348. Euxoa quadridentata. (Plate LXI. fig. 26.) 



Agrofis quadridentata, Grote & Rob. Proe. Eiit. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 491, pi. 3. 

 ff. 2, 3 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 89. 



1^ . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and black ; 

 tegulae with ochreous band in front and tipped with white: abdomen 

 ochreous white, dorsally more or less irrorated with brown. Pore 

 wing greyish brown ; a whitish fascia below costa extending to 

 costa at base and ending in streaks on the veins beyond middle ; 

 streaks on median nervure and veins 3, 4 ; an ochreous fascia on 

 inner margin ; two oblique black strice below base of cell ; the 

 antemedial line consisting of an oblique black line across cell and a 

 line angled outwards below cell and confluent with the well-developed 

 black-edged claviform ; the orbicular and reniform whitish tinged 

 with brown and black-edged, the former oblique, elliptical, the 

 latter well developed ; an ochreous fascia in submcdian fold from 

 below middle of cell to near subterminal line ; the postmedial line 

 black, very oblique from costa to vein 0, angled outwards on veins 

 6 and 5, then as an oblique series of small dentate marks ; the 

 subterminal line consisting of a series of small dentate black marks 

 ob.solctc towards costa and inner margin and with two dentate 

 white marks on it below apex ; cilia white, with three brown lines 

 through them. Hind wing white, the vein and terminal area 

 brownish ; a discoidal point sometimes present. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, Colorado (Snow), 1 c? , California (Wal- 

 slnrjham), 2 c? . Evp. 30-30 millini. 



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