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abdomen browiiisli wliite. Pore wing whitish, tinged with pale 

 brown and verj- slightly irrorated with black ; faint traces of an 

 oblique waved autemedial line, of brown-detined orbiealar and 

 reniforni stigmata, the former upright, elliptical, of a regular post- 

 mediiil line beut outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, and of a snbterminal series of dark points ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white, w-ith slight diffused sub- 

 terminal fuscous band ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal point. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Calgarj-, 1 S . Exp. 36 milHm. 



407. Euxoa birivia. 



Noctua hirivia, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 71 (ITTfi); Hiibn. Samnil. Eur. 



Sclimett, Noet. f. 631; Hen-.-Scliaff. Suhmttt. Eur. fi^ 9, 10; Treit. 



Schmett. Eur. v. i. p. J 91 ; Diip. Lep. Fr. v. p. 2(57, j)l. 70. f. 7 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 

 Agrotis honnoratina, Donz. Ann. See. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 474, pi. 18. ff. 3, 4 



(1837). 

 Agrotis doUs. Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 91 (1880) : Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 93. 



Head and thorax ash}' grej-, the hairs being brown'ish tipped with 

 grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing ash-grey irrorated with ochreous white ; an antemedial 

 whitish line, minutely dentate and bent inwards to inner margin, 

 often distinctly angled outwards in submedian fold ; the orbicular 

 and reniform defined by ochreous-white lines, the former either 

 round or elongate, the latter constricted at middle ; an obliquely 

 curved dentate postraedial line ; an indistinct irregularly waved 

 subterminal line ; a pale ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

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

 Underside of both wings with brownish discoidal luuule and post- 

 medial line obsolescent except towards costa. 



Hah. Alps of France, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, 1 S , 5 $ , 

 Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Italy ; Austria, Styria ; Hungary, Leech 

 Coll., 1 6 Grote Coll. Exp. 44 millim. The locality Colorado 

 for the species is incorrect. 



8ubsp. 1. taurica. Stand. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 370 (1878). 



Fore wing with the markings pale ochreous instead of white. 



Ilah. Asia Minor, Taurus ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul, 1 c? . 



408, Euxoa casiiis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 11.) 



Agrotis ccenis, Grole, N. Am. Eiit. i. p. 44 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 94. 

 Agrotis muscosa, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 2(3 (1883). 



5 . Head and thorax grey pencilled with brown ; many of the 

 hairs tipped with crimson ; abdomen grey-white tinged with ochreous 

 brown, and with some crimson on ventral surface. Fore wing grey, 

 suffused and irrorated with crimson ; some black p'oints on costa ; 

 the orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined by crimson suffusion 

 before and beyond them, the former round, the latter with fuscous 



