284 JfOCTTTIDJE. 



reuiform with fuscous centres and greyish annuli defined by black, 

 the former round, some blackish suffusion in the cell between them ; 

 a prominent oblique, waved, medial line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, and oblique below 

 vein 4 ; the terminal area suffused with black ; the subterminal 

 line indistinct, greyish, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; a line 

 ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 pale brown, the terminal area with fuscous ; the cilia whitish, with 

 a brown line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal area 

 irrorated Avith fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a 

 small dark discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, W., 1 S . Exp. 36 milhm. 



508. Euxoa decolor. (Plate LXV. fig. 27.) 



Aqrotis decolor, Morr. Proc. Buff. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 162 (1874) ; Smith, 



■ Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 102. 

 Agrotis campestris, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 188, pi. i. f. (1875). 



Head and thorax purplish brown, the extremity of tegular and 

 the thoracic crest ochreous or bright ferruginous ; head and teguLc 

 often mixed with black or whitish scales ; palpi blackish at sides, 

 the tegula? with black medial line ; tibias and tarsi black, with 

 whitish annuli ; abdomen grey, tinged with ochreous and suffused 

 with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing purplish brown 

 slightly suffused with grey ; some ferruginous red below the costa 

 and base of cell ; costa marked with black between the lines ; the 

 subbasal line double, black, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; the ante- 

 medial line double, waved, excurved below costa and cell and more 

 strongly above inner margin ; claviform outlined with black, small 

 or well-developed ; orbicular and reuiform defined by black and 

 with fine whitish anniili ; the cell black before and between the 

 stigmata, and usually some black suffusion beyond the latter; 

 traces of a waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa 

 towards apex ; the subterminal line indistinct, irregular ; a terminal 

 lunulate line. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins 

 and terminal area brown; the underside white, Avith the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a discoidal point and post- 

 medial series of points on the veins. 



Hab. Canada {Normcui) , 1 § , ??ova Scotia, {Redman)^ 2 c? , 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., New Hampshire (Morrison), 1 c? , N. York, 1 d" , 4 $ , type 

 camj)^s/m, Grote Coll., Colorado (Cockerell), 1 c? , 2 $. Exp. 34- 

 38 millim. 



.Larva. 



Head pale brown, dotted and streaked with darker brown. Body 

 brown, semitransparent ; skin thin. Cervical shield pale brown. 



