254 NOCTUID^. 



Hah. France, Leech Coll. ; Spain ; Canakies ; Greece ; 8. 

 Russia ; Armenia, Caucasus, Leech Coll. ; Asia Minor ; Syria ; 

 Persia, Sharud, Zeller Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana ; E. Turkestan, 

 Kuldja, 4 d" , 3 2 , Leech Coll. ; Amur, 2 J , 2 $ ; Kashmir, Kokser 

 {Mc Arthur),! d , Barra Larcha, 1 c? , 1 § , Dras (LeecJi), 1 2; 

 Punjab, Eawal Pindi, 1 d , 1 $ . Ex2^. 44-50 millim. 



446. Euxoa septentrionalis. (Plate LXIV. fig. 5.) 



Mamcstra septentrionalis, Wlk. xxxii. 660 (1865). 



Carneades inciihita, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 435 (1900). 



2 . Head and thorax grey, mixed with pale brownish and black ; 

 tegulse with black medial line ; abdomen brownish grej-, the 

 ventral surface white irrorated with fuscous, and with sublateral 

 series of black strite, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing brownish 

 grey thickly irrorated with black ; a double, waved, subbasal black 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line oblique, 

 double, waved, and angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 moderate, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former round, 

 the cell before and between them and the disk beyond reniform 

 suffused with black ; a waved medial line angled outwards to lower 

 angle of cell ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the area 

 beyond it clearer grey : the subterminal line pale, excurved at 

 vein 7 and slightly dentate at middle, defined by a series of small 

 dentate blackish marks on its inner side, and the area beyond 

 it darker ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish, the veins and 

 marginal areas broadly suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia white, 

 with a brownish line at base ; the underside white, the costal area 

 irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suftused with fuscous, 

 a small discoidal spot and terminal series of black points. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver I. (Hmvl-ins), 1 $ type ; U.S.A., 

 Oregon, Corvallis, 1 $ , California. Hx2). 40 millim. 



*447. Euxoa mitis. (Plate LXIV. fig. 6.) 



Carneades mitis. Smith, Traus. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 49, pi. iii. f. 10 

 (1894). 



lleddish luteous irrorated with black. Fore wing with the lines 

 indistinct ; subbasal line very near base, single, blackish ; ante- 

 medial line double, the inner line indistinct, the outer blackish, 

 somewhat oblique, excurved in interspaces ; claviform obsolete : 

 orbicular and reniform very indistinct, rather large ; an indistinct 

 medial shade darkening the cell between the stigmata in the male ; 

 postmedial line crenulate, single, blackish, slightly defined on outer 

 side by a .pale shade, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; subterminal line somewhat pale, rather irregular, 

 defined on inner side by an obscure dark shade ; a terminal series 



