ra-xoA. 



221 



abdomen browner and irrorated with grey. Fore wing with in- 

 distinct doubk\ waved, bhick subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; an indistinct waved black antemedial line with the small 

 indistinct claviform on its outer side ; the orbicular and reniform 

 large and defiued by black lines, the former round and often con- 

 joined to the antemedial line, the latter often with grey patch on 

 "its outer side ; the postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 3, then bent inwards and oblique, often 

 reduced to points on the veins ; a subterminal sinuous series of black 

 and grey points on the veins ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white, the veins, costal area, and termen tinged with 

 fuscous brown ; a postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins 

 often present ; cilia brown, with fine pale line at base and white 

 tips. 



2 . Hind wing fuscous brown, the cell and area near it indistinctly 

 whitish. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., E. & Middle States, New York, 3 rf , 1 $ 

 type, Grote Coll. Exjj. 36-3S millim. 



375. Euxoa atomaris. (Plate LXII. fig. IS.) 



Agrotis atomaris, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 47 (1890); id. Cat, 

 JS^oct. N. Am. p. 92. 



c? , Head and thorax fuscous black, with a few ochreous and 

 grey scales, especially on edges of tegulje, patagia, and in dorsal crest : 

 pectus and legs largely mixed with white ; abdomen w hite irrorated 

 with brown, and tinged with ochreous on dorsum. Fore wing 

 ochreous, almost entirely suffused with fuscous black ; the subbasal 

 line represented by two points on costa ; the antemedial line very 

 indistinct, waved ; claviform elongate, finely outlined with black ; 

 orbicular and reniform indistinct, obscurely outlined with black ; 

 the postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique; the subterminal line 

 represented by points of whitish scales; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the veins towards termen, 

 apical part of termen, and a tine terminal line brown, 



J/uh. U.S.A., Colorado (Ilulst), 1 d , California. Kv^). 2G millim. 



376. Euxoa adumbrata, 



Afjrotisaclmnhrata, Ev. Bull. Mosc. iii. p. r)43 (1842) ; Herr.-Scliiiff. Schmctt. 



Eiir., Noct. f. 121 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. 

 Agrotis ohscura, Staud. Stett. eiit. Zeit. 1874, p. 94 ; id. Rom. Mem. ii. 



pi. 2. f. 6. 

 Agrotis polygoiiides, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1874, p. 94 ; id. Eom. Mem. 



ii. p. 30, p'l. 2. f. 5. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; abdomen grey, 

 tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish, 

 completely suffused with fuscous brown or with the medial and 

 terminal areas darker ; an indistinct, pale, waved, subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; au obhque, dark, waved, antemedial line 



