242 NOCTFIDiE. 



Hah. Switzerland, High Alps, Gorner Grat, 3 S , Frey Coll. 

 Exp. 42-46 millim. 



*423. Euxoa vallus. (Plate LXIII. fig. 22.) 

 Carneades vallus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 430 (1900). 



2 . Pale luteous suflFiised with pale grey ; palpi yellow in front, 

 fuscous at sides ; vertex of head and base of tegulae whitish, the 

 latter tipped with yellowish hair ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair, tipped with yellowish posteriorly. Fore wing thickly irrorated 

 with black, especially beyond the antemedial line ; the lines single ; 

 subbasal line distinct, blackish, excurved from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line fuscous, curved, excurved in interspaces especially 

 below cell ; orbicular moderate, round, rather paler than ground- 

 colour ; reniform moderate, with dusky centre and incomplete 

 outline ; medial shade broad, diffused, somewhat angled outwards 

 at middle; postmedial line indistinct, crenulate, unusually near 

 termon, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; 

 subterminal line represented by an obscure series of dark spots. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous grey, the terminal area hardly darker ; the 

 veins and discoidal lunule rather darker : the underside silky 

 yellowish grey, with blackish streak in cell, slight discoidal spot, 

 and traces of postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Laggan, 5000 ft. {Bean). Exp. 40 

 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph 

 from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*424. Euxoa luteosita. (Plate LXIII. fig. 23.) 

 Carneades lutcositus. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 433 (1900). 



Dull luteous, the thorax and fore wing tinged with rufous ; 

 thorax clothed with hair. Fore wing with the basal and terminal 

 areas pale, the medial area shaded with rufous and blackish ; the 

 lines distinct ; the subbasal line single, waved from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line single, waved, somewhat excurved in 

 sub median fold ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular large, pale, rounded ; 

 reniform with dusky centre and pale annulus ; medial shade 

 indistinct, diffused, more i)rominent in female ; postmedial line 

 produced to slight points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; subterminal line very 

 even, defined by a series of small dentate dark marks on inner side ; 

 a terminal series of small lunules. Hind wing dark fuscous, paler 

 at base ; a dark discoidal lunule ; cilia yellowish ; the underside 

 pale reddish luteous, a discoidal lunule and incomplete postmedial 

 line. 



Antennae of male with the serrations slight and the fasciculate 

 cilia short. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Hall Valley {Barnes). Exp. 36 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from 

 type in U.S. Nat. Mus, 



