EUXOA. 



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the autemedial line obli(^ue, exciirved in interspaces ; claviform 

 narrow, rather elongate, detiued by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former irregularly elongate, the latter erect, 

 elliptical; medial shade diffused, darkening the cell between the 

 stigmata ; postmedial line crenulate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line obsolete. Hind 

 wing ochreous fuscous ; the underside with somewhat large dis- 

 coidal lunule. 



Hah. U.S.A., California. Exj). 37 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



*481. Euxoa orbicularis. 



Agrotis orbicularis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 460 (1887) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 99. 



5 . Luteous grey. Fore wing with the lines distinctly double, 

 dark fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by black points below 

 median nervure ; antemedial line erect, somewhat dentate ; clavi- 

 form indistinctly defined ; orbicular and reniform pale, defined by 

 fuscous, the former round, the latter moderate with fuscous centre ; 

 medial shade indistinct ; postmedial line even, slightly crenulate, 

 placed unusually near termen, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, slight, sinuous ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale yellowish fuscous ; 

 the underside whitish, with dark irroration and discoidal lunule. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nevada. Exj). 32 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



482. Euxoa incalida. (Plate LXY. fig. 3.) 



Agrotis incallida. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. svii. p. 50 (1890) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 98. 



S . Head and thorax brownish grey ; palpi blackish at sides 

 except at extremity ; tegulse with slight medial line ; tarsi blackish 

 with pale rings ; abdomen brownish grey, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing brownish grey, very slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; an oblique waved antemedial line ; a diffused 

 waved medial line excurved at median nervure ; reniform narrow, 

 very indistinctly defined by grey ; the postmedial line minutely 

 waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly 

 incurved ; traces of a subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing grey suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia white ; the under- 

 side white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a black discoidal 

 spot, curved fuscous postmedial line, and diffused terminal band. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wing greyer, the black irroration and 

 markings more prominent. 



JIah. Canada, 1 S , Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1 $ ; U.S.A., California, 

 Sierra Nevada. Exp. 38 millim. 



