EDXOA. 



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brownish; the unrlerside with discal point and some postmedial 

 points on the veins. 



2 . Hind wing suffused with brown except in cell, tlie underside 

 with discoidal hmule and curved postmedial line. 



IJab. U.S.A., Colorado (ZinwY), 1 ?, California (Tr«?s?"/(r/7(«m), 

 10 2 , Sanzalito, -4 J , 7 $ type. Exy. 44 millim. 



*418. Euxoa difformis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 21.) 

 Carneadcs difformis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 441 (1?00). 



Dull grej- or fuscous with dark irroratiou ; tegular with fuscous 

 medial line ; thorax clothed with fine hair mixed with flattened hair. 

 Fore wing with the markings rather coarse ; subbasal line double, 

 black, slender, very close to base ; antemedial line oblique, double, 

 excurved in interspaces and interrupted at the veins, the inner line 

 fine, brown, the outer strong, black ; claviform small, almost obsolete 

 or fairly prominent ; orbicular moderate or small, rounded, grey 

 defined by black ; reniform moderate or rather small, somewluit 

 constricted at middle, with fuscous centre and fine black outline ; 

 medial shade slightly curved ; postmedial line double, tfie outer even, 

 brown, the inner strong black or fuscous, lunulate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 irregularly sinuous, grey, defined on inner side by a broad irregular 

 shade often intersected with grey at veins, the terminal area with 

 dtisky irroration ; a terminal series of black or brown lunulcs ; 

 cilia yellowish fuscous. Hind wing white, with a yellowish tinge 

 in male, yellowish tinged with fuscous in female, the veins and a 

 discoidal lunule darker ; tlie male with traces of postmedial line, 

 the area beyond it slightly tinged with fuscous ; a dark termiual 

 line ; the underside whitish, with distinct discoidal spot and broad 

 blackish postmedial line. 



Antennae with the serrations long. 



Uuh. U.S.A., Oregon (AScAaMs). A'.t;/?. 30-33 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. 

 Kat. Mas. 



419. Euxoa grisescens. 



Nociua ffrl^icscens, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ;j, ii. p. 110(1794); Treit. Schniett. Ear. 



V. i. p. rJo ; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. ii. p. 332, f. 41S ; 



Stand. Cat. Le]). pal. p. 14,"). 

 Noctiia canddixcifua, llubn. Eur, Sclimett., Noct. f. 493(1827). 

 '! Nuctua iynicola, llubn. Eur. Schinett., Noct. f. 54li (1827). 

 Agrotis corrcsa, Herr.-SchaH'. Eur. SL-hmett., Noct. t. 141 (1845). 

 Ai/rotis latcns, Bcisd. le. Lep. Eur. pi. 180. f. 2 (1832). 

 Ayrufiii tliiaiisehauiea, Staud. Iri.s, xii. p. 339 (1899). 

 Agrotis k^rcaitn, ytaud. Iri.s, xii. p. 339 (lb99). 



Head and thorax brownish grey tinged with fuscous; palpi 

 l)lackish except at tips ; legs blackish, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 alxlomen brownish grey, dorsally irroratcd with fuscous. Fore 

 win" brownish grey irroratcd with black ; a waved black subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold; a waved black antemedial 

 line, slightlv angled (nitw.irds below costa; orbicular and reniform 



