EuxoA. 229 



304. Euxoa detersa. (Plate LXII. fig. 32.) 



Chnraas detersa, Wlk. ix. 212 (l8.o6) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 94. 



Agrot/s piti/chrous, Grote, Bull. Butf. Soc. i p. 82 (1873). 



Agrotis personata, Morr. Pr«e. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 238 (1876). 



S . Grey-white ; the vertex of head, hinder part of tegula;, and 

 thorax tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 suffused with rufous, especially in, below, and beyond cell and on 

 terminal area ; the median nervure and veins 3, 4 streaked with 

 white ; waved white subbasal and antemedial lines from costa to 

 vein 1 defined by dark lines ; claviform small, whitish with dark 

 outline ; orbicular and reuiforra yellowish white with brown 

 outline, the former small, round or slightly elongate, the latter 

 well developed ; the postraedial line dentate, l)ent outwards below 

 costa, then obliquely curved, and with a whitish band between 

 it and the dentate subterminal line, which is angled outwards at 

 veins 7 and 4 ; a terminal series of small black luiiules. Hind 

 wing white, the veins and terminal area brown ; cilia white. 



5 . Markings grey-brown ; hind wing more suffused with brown. 



Hab. Canada, Nova Scotia {Redman), 3 c? , 1 $ type ; U.S.A.., 

 N., E. & Central States, 4 c? , 1 $ , Grote and Zeller Colls., Colorado 

 (Bruce), 1 (5 . Exp. 34 millim. 



Larva. Beutenmiiller, Eiit. Ainer. v. p. 38 (1889). 



Head pale brown, shining. 13ody brownish, thin-skinned. 

 Dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, and substigmatal lines white ; cervical 

 shield pale ; spiracles black. Food-plants, grasses. — H. G. D. 



*395. Euxoa luteola. (Plate LXIII. fig. 1.) 



Agrotis luteola, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 457 (1887) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 94. 



2 . Head and thorax grey tinged with pale reddish brown ; 

 teguUe with fuscous medial line ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged 

 with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey- 

 brown with a slight rufous and ochreous tinge, rather thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous ; a double waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a double waved antemedial line angled inwards 

 on vein 1 ; claviform indicated by a few black scales ; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by fuscous, the former round, the latter 

 angled inwards on median nervure, on which there is a fuscous 

 streak at extremity ; an oblique shade from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurvcd to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line 

 defined by some dark scales on each side of it and by the area 

 beyond it being slightly darker, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing 

 pale ochreous brown, ratlicr darker towards termen ; cilia yellowish 

 white, with slight brown line through them ; the underside whiter, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown, a sliglit discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial lino. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, in U.S. Nut. Mus. E.r2->. 30 millim. 



