248 NocxriD^. 



with ferruginous in cell between them, the orbiculax round, 

 the reniform with fuscous centre ; the postmedial line minutely 

 dentate, black, bent outwards below costa, excui-ved to vein 3, then 

 incurved, and with some fuscous suffusion on its inner side ; the 

 termen fuscous, its inner edge representing the subterminal line, 

 which is sinuous and angled inwards at discal fold ; a, terminal 

 series of dark points ; cilia rufous. Hind wing brown tinged 

 with fiiseous, rather darker in female ; cilia pale brown at base, 

 white at tips : underside whitish, with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal i)oint, curved postmedial 

 line, and terminal series of points. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia; U.S. A., Utah, California ( TFoZsi»^7- 

 ham), 1 c? . 1 5 . Exii, 32 millim. 



436. Euxoa cursoria. 



Phalmm cursoria, Hlifn. Berl. Mag. iii, p. 416 (1767); Hiibu. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 540 ; Boisd. Ic. Lep. Eur. pi. 79. f. o ; Staucl. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 148. 

 Noctua mixta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 118 (1794). 

 Xoctua sagitta, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 596 (J 827). 

 Af/rotis obscura, Staud. Cat. Lep. ed. ii. p. 86 (1871). 

 Ayrofis cespiiis, Swinb. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 349, pi. 9. f. 4 ; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 184. 

 Agrofis sagittata, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 249 (1896) ; Ilerr.-Scbaff. Eur. 



Schmett'., Noct. f. 26. 

 Agrotis currens, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 249 (1896). 

 Agrotis vaga, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 250 (1896). 



Head and thorax grey, ochreous or red-brown, often irrorated 

 with darker brown or black : tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 ochreous or red-brown, usually with darker irroration ; a double, 

 waved, brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, 

 waved, antemedial line ; claviform usually with its extremity 

 defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, 

 usually with grejdsh centres and whitish annuli, the former 

 oblique, elliptical, the latter usuall}' with blackish patch in its 

 lower extremity : an indistinct oblique waved medial line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, 

 minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the sub- 

 terminal line pale, defined on each side by brown and with darker 

 patches before and beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate 

 at veins 3, 4; a terminal series of black points, Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the terminal area tinged with brown ; the under- 

 side whiter, with dark discoidal point and terminal series of black 

 points. 



Ab, 1. vaga. Fore wings uniform brownish grey. — C. Asia. 



Ab. 2. currens. Darker ; hind wings entirely sufi:'used with 

 brown. — C. Asia. 



Ab. 3. obscura. Pore wings almost uniform red or red-brown, 

 the orbicular and reniform prominently annulated with white. 



Ab, 4. sagittata. Fore wings suffused with red-brown, the costal 



