290 NOCTUID^. 



anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with black ; a 

 double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the 

 antemedial line double, waved, very strongly angled outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform rather small, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform with fuscous centres and greyish annuli defined by 

 black, the former round or elliptical and usually with black suffusion 

 between it and reniform ; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker : a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing whitish, the veins, costal and 

 terminal ai'eas tinged with brown : cilia white, with a brown line at 

 base : the underside with the costal area white irrorated with 

 brown. 



Ab. 1. 5 wholly suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. Falkland Is., Darwin Harbour {Dale), 4 c? , 1 $ ; Patagonia, 

 Magellan, Oazy Harbour (Canmur/ham), 1 c? ; Chili (Edmomls), 

 2 cJ , 1 $ . Exji. 3G-40 millim. 



518. Euxoa bilitura. (Plate LXVI. fig. 4.) 



Agrotis bilitura, Griien. Noct. i. p. 285 (18r)2). 



Spslotis cineraria, Blanch. Gay's Chile, vii. p. 74 (1852). 



Agrotis dejjrivata, Wlk. xi. TSO (1857). 



Head and thorax pale brown ; legs irrorated with black; abdomen 

 ochreous, the anal tuft tinged wdth fulvous. Fore wing pale brown, 

 slightly irrorated with white and with a slight fuscous tinge : the 

 markings indistinct ; the subbasal line double, waved from costa to 

 vein 1 ; the antemedial line double, angled outwards below costa, 

 then waved ; claviform absent ; the orbicular and reniform small, 

 slightly defined by black, the former round, with a slight black 

 streak before it and a prominent one betw^een it and reniform ; the 

 postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, 

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

 subterminal line hardly traceable, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle : a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white. 



Hah. Chili, Coquimbo {J. J. Walher), 1 S , 2 5 , Talcahuano 

 ( /. J. Walker), 1 S , Valdivia, 1 J type deprivata, (Edmonds) 2 $ 

 Exp. 40-46 millim. 



519. Euxoa ochrogaster. (Plate LXVI. fig. 5.) 



Noctua ochrogaster, Guen. Noct. i. p. 327 (1852) ; Smitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 104. 

 Agrotis cinereomacida, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 164 (1874). 

 Agrotis gularis, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 1875, p. 424. 

 Agrotis turris, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 226 (1875). 



Deep purplish red-brown to pale ochreous brown ; head and thorax 

 with some of the scales tipped with grey : tegulse with a darker 

 medial line ; pectus brown and grey ; legs blackish above ; abdomen 



