218 NOCTUID^. 



claviform obsolete ; orbicular moderate, rouuded, with ochreous 

 anuulus ; reniform iiarrow, with blackish centre and ochreous 

 annulus ; subterminal line represented by a series of irregular 

 ochreous points preceded and followed b}^ dusky shading. Hind 

 wing ochreous, fuscous at base, blackish towards margins, the veins 

 and a discoidal lunule blackish ; cilia ochreous at base, fuscous at 

 middle, and whitish at tips : the underside fuscous with darker 

 irroration, a discoidal spot and somewhat incomplete postmedialline. 

 Hob. U.S.A., California, High Sierras (Dt/ar). Exp. 36 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



367. Euxoa hicollavis. (Plate LXII. fig. 10.) 



Agrotis bicollaris, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 173 (1878) ; id. Proc. x\m. 

 Phil. Sec. xxi. p. 155 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. DO. 



Pale grey-brown with an ochreous tinge andirrorated with brown ; 

 palpi blackish at sides except at extremity ; tegukis with the basal 

 half mostly black. Fore wing with traces of brown autemedial line 

 angled on median uervure, and with stria3 from costa before and 

 beyond it ; orbicular and reniform large, very indistinct, with dark 

 outline, the former rounded, the latter with darker centre ; the 

 postmedial lino double, verj- indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 then represented by series of points on the veins ; the subterminal 

 line indistinct, double, angled outwards below costa and slightly at 

 vein 4, the area beyond it with darker irroration ; a terminal series 

 of small triangular spots. Hind wing brown, the veins and small 

 discoidal lunule rather darker; cilia pale, with a brown line through 

 them ; underside with the costal area strongly irrorated with brown. 



Bab. U.S.A., Nevada, California, Havilah, 1 (S 1 2 type, Grote 

 Coll., Arizona. Kvj^., J 34, $ 38 millim. 



368. Euxoa excogita. (Plate LXII. fig. 11.) 



Carneades cxcogita, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 423 (1900). 



2 . Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; palpi blackish at sides, 

 except at tips ; tegulae with medial black band ; abdomen brownish 

 grey. Fore wing grey, suff"used with rufous and slightly irrorated 

 with black; the subbasal line represented by a slight black striga 

 from costa and point below cell : the antemedial line indistinct, dark, 

 waved ; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform an indistinct 

 dark lunule ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, slightly bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale 

 points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, 

 waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing brownish grey, the cilia white except at base ; the under- 

 side whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a 

 slight discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs {Barnes), 1 5 • Exp. 

 34 millim. 



