ICUXOA. 



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dusky discoidal liinnle ; cilia yellowish at base, with fuscous medial 

 line and whitish tips ; underside whitish with dark irroration, a 

 discoidal luuule and postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman {Piper). Exj>. 6 32, $ 3-i 

 raillim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph 

 from type in U.S. Xat. Mus. 



493. Euxoa infausta. (Plate LXV. tig. 13.) 



Hadc7ia hifausta, Wlk. sxxiii. 7:29(1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 101. 

 Aijroiis riijula, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 461 (1887). 



2 . Head and thorax brown, slightly irrorated with black ; 

 palpi blackish at sides except towards extremity ; tegulse with 

 a black medial line ; abdomen ochreous brown, the ventral 

 surface dark brown irrorated with whitish. Fore wing pale 

 brown, tinged with rufous and fuscous and irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; the 

 autemedial line double, waved, oblique ; claviform outlined by a 

 few dark scales ; orbicular and reniform outlined with black, the 

 former elliptical, the latter with fuscous centre ; a medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; the subterrainal line sinuous, angled outwards at veins 6 

 and 4 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing brown ; the 

 cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown ; a discoidal point and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver I. (Haivlim) 1 $ type, (J. J. WaUicr) 

 1 c? , 2 2; U.S.A., Colorado, Hall Valley, New Mexico, 7000 

 feet. Exji. 38 millim, 



*4y4. Euxoa megastigma. (Plate LXV. fig. 14.) 

 Carncades megadignia, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 425 (1900). 



2 . Dull luteous grey. Fore wing irrorated with black, the 

 markings indistinct; subbasal line double, represented by a few 

 scales or obsolete ; antemedial line double, erect, the inner line 

 almost obsolete, excurved in interspaces : claviform represented by 

 some fuscous scales ; orbicular very large, pale, defined at sides only 

 reniform large, broad, almost oblong, a dark triangular mark between 

 the stigmata ; in one specimen there is a faint indication of a medial 

 shade; postmedial line double from costa to discal fold, minutely 

 waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 snbterminal line pale, diffused, slightly defined on inner side by 

 dark irroration ; an interrupted terminal line and a fine ochreous 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale fuscous, whitish at base ; the 

 underside whitish, with an obscure discoidal spot. 



Hab. Canada, Calgary (Z>0(?)' Exp. 33-38 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. 



