272 NOCTUID^, 



483. Euxoa mollis. (Plate LXV. fig. 4.) 



-Agrotis mollis, Wlk. x. 331 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 100. 

 Agrotis fernaldi, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 429 ; Grote, 111. 

 "Ess. 53, pi. i. f. 11. 



2 . Head and thorax grey-white, mixed with rufous brown ; 

 basal half of teguloe dark brown ; patagia edged with red-brown ; 

 abdomen grey, mixed with brown. Fore wing grey -white, suffused 

 with red-brown, slightly on basal area and sometimes slightly on 

 terminal area ; a subbasal black line from costal to vein 1 angled 

 outwards below costa and on median nervure ; the antemedial line 

 prominent, defined by grey on inner side, slightly angled outwards 

 in and below cell and very strongly above inner margin, the clavi- 

 form conjoined to it, either outlined with black or entirely filled in 

 with black ; a black fascia in cell expanding into quadrate patches 

 before the orbicular and in end of cell ; the stigmata grey, with 

 darker line defining the central area, the orbicular triangular and 

 open above, the reniform large : the postraedial line minutely 

 dentate, black defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below 

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

 angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle, the area beyond 

 it paler or grey : a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing whitish- 

 brown or brown ; an indistinct discoidal lunule, postmedial line 

 excurved at middle, and curved subterminal line. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, Albany R., St. Martin's Falls 

 (Barnston), 1 $ type, Oldtown, 1 5 typtJ fernaldi ; U.S.A., Maine, 

 Colorado. Exp. 40-42 millim. 



484, Euxoa opipara. (Plate LXV. fig. 5.) 



Agrotis o^npara, Morr. Proc. Bust. Soc. N. H. xvii.p. 165 (1874); Smith, 



'Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 100 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. 

 Agrotis islandica, Pack. Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 555, pi. — . f. 10 (1878) ; 



' Auriv. Bihang Vet.-Akad. Handl. xv. p. 15, pi. i. f. 5 ; nee Stand. 

 Agrotis labradoriensis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlii. p. 419 (1881) ; id. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 149. 

 Agrotis norwcgica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1861, p. 383 ; id. Oat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 150. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white, more or less tinged with 

 fuscous brown ; tegulaj with a prominent black band. Fore wing pale 

 grey; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold in which 

 there is a blackish streak from base to the antemedial line, which is 

 grey defined slightly by fuscous on inner side and strongly by black on 

 outer, slightly angled outwards below costa and excurved below 

 cell and above inner margin ; claviform large, elongate, filled in with 

 black and with a streak from it to the postmedial line : the cell and 

 areas beyond it before the postmedial line blackish, clearly defining 

 the grey obicular and reniform stigmata, the former being round or 

 somewhat elliptical, the latter well-developed and with fuscous 

 centre; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, with fuscous sufl'usion on its 

 inner side ; the subterminal line formed by an obsolescent series of 



