EUXOA. 231 



diffused brownish subtcrminal band and terminal scries of dark 

 strife ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a small blackish discoida] spot, 



Ilab. U.S.A., California, Placer Co., 1 S • Exp. 36 millim. 



*399. Euxoa termessa. (Plate LXIII. fig. 4.) 

 Carneades termessus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Miis. xxii. p. 42(i (1900). 



cJ . Luteous gre}% irrorated with fine black scales ; palpi rusty 

 yellowish in front. Pore wing with the markings indistinct and 

 slightly darker than ground-colour ; subbasal line double and 

 marked at costa onlj' ; antemedial line double, the two parts rather 

 widely separated, excnrved in cell and above inner margin and 

 slightly in submedian interspace; claviform small; orbicular 

 moderate, elliptical, somewhat paler than ground-colour and defined 

 by fuscous scales ; reniform large, extending to below cell and 

 incompletely dedned ; postmedial line double, the inner line most 

 prominent and somewhat diffused, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subtermiual line almost obsolete 

 except at costa, where it is defined by a dark shade on its inner 

 side ; a terminal series of minute black lunules. Hind wing dirty 

 whitish, the terminal area narrowly tinged with fuscous ; a dis- 

 coidcil spot and distinct terminal line; the underside white, 

 irrorated with fuscous. 



Bah. U.S.A., Wyoming, Yellowstone Park (Barnes). E.vp. 

 38 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photo- 

 graph from type in U.S. JN'at. Mus. 



400. Euxoa detesta. (Plate LXIII. fig. 5.) 



Carneades choris, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 158 (1890), nee Ilarv. 

 Carneades detesta, Smith, EuU. U.S. Nat. Mus. 44, p. 93 (1893) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 93. 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous grey mixed with fuscous black ; 

 tegula3 with blackish medial line ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen grey-white. Pore wing grey-white with an ochreous 

 tinge and thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line re- 

 presented by two black points on costa ; the antemedial line 

 oblique, waved, with black point before it on costa ; claviform small, 

 sligUtly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by 

 black and with fuscous centres ; the postmedial line dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; some pale 

 points on costa towards apex ; the terminal area clouded with 

 fuscous ; the subtermiual line represented by a series of small 

 whitish and black dentate marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle; a terminal scries of black points. Hind wing 

 white, the veins, inner margin, and termen tinged with brown, 

 a tine terminal dark line ; the underside white, the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, 1 $, Colorado. Exp, 

 36 millim. 



