274 NocruiD^. 



the diseoidal lunule and a curved subterminal line usually 

 prominent. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado (/Swoiw, Bruce, Cocl-erell), 5 J, 1 5 type, 

 Nevada. A>^). 36millim. 



487. Euxoa dissona. (Plate LXY. fig. 7.) 



Agrotis dissona, Moscbl. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 365, pi. 9. f. 4 (18(J0) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 101 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. 

 Affrotis rara, Pack. Proc. Post. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 38 (1868). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with brown, pectus 

 with the hair blackish ; legs and ventral surface of abdomen dark 

 brown, woolly. Fore wing grey, suffused with brown and with, a 

 slight lilac tinge ; the lines indistinct ; the subbasal line extending 

 from costa to vein 1 ; the antemedial line bent outwards in sub- 

 median fold ; claviform indicated by some brown scales ; orbicular 

 and reniform very indistinct, concolorous, moderate in size, and with 

 a quadrate brown patch between them in cell ; the postmedial line 

 minutely crenulate, angled outwards at veins 7 and 5, then oblique : 

 the terminal line indicated by slight dark dentate marks ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing pale brown. Underside of both 

 wings with distinct diseoidal lunule and traces of curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, Labrador, 1 5 Grote Coll. Krp. 34 millim. 



488. Euxoa vetusta. (Plate LXY. fig. 8.) 



Mamc&tra vetusta, Wlk. sxxii. 662 (1865); Smith, Cat. Koct. N. Am. 



p. 101. 

 Lepipolys tetra, Wlk. xxxiii. 768,(1865). 



Agrotis euroides, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 202. 

 Agrotis perpiira, Morr. Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 164 (1874). 



Head and thorax white with a slight bluish tinge, mixed with 

 brown scales : palpi and frons at sides with sortie black scales ; tegulae 

 with medial black line, the basal half mixed with black; patagia 

 often with some black scales on edges ; the prothoracic crest at base, 

 the tibic'B and tarsi with some rufous scales and largely mixed with 

 black above ; abdomen grey, largely mixed with fuscous and with 

 some rufous at sides and below. Fore wing white with a slight 

 bluish tinge, and irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line black, 

 excurved below costa, angled outwards at median nervure and 

 extending to vein 1 ; the antemedial- line double, waved; the clavi- 

 form outlined with black ; the orbicular and reniform concolorous, 

 defined by black, the former somewhat oblique, elliptical, the latter 

 large, its centre defined by fuscous, a quadrate black-brown patch 

 in cell between them; an indistinct medial rufous line from cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, and with traces of 

 another line beyond it ; the subterminal line represented by a very 

 indistinct sinuous series of small dentate marks : a prominent 



