296 NOCTUiD^. 



black medial line diffused towards base ; thorax clothed with hair 

 and scales. Fore wiug with the costa shaded with grey; the medial 

 area rather darker red-brown ; the lines somewhat interrupted ; 

 subbasal line represented by two black spots on costa and a pale 

 striga intersecting the black streak below base of cell, diffused 

 below ; antemedial line double, the outer black, obsolete towards 

 costa, the inner brown, the included space grey, incurved from 

 costa to median nervure, excurved below cell and more strongly 

 above inner margin ; median nervure streaked with grey ; claviform 

 rather incompletely defined by black, filled in with brownish, 

 rather short and broad ; orbicular irregular, oblique, oblong, open 

 above, with pale annulus ; reniform moderate, rather narrow, with 

 grey centre and annulus defined by black ; the cell blackish before 

 and between the stigmata ; postmedial line double, the inner line 

 blackish, lunulate, the outer even, indistinct, the included space 

 rufous, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved ; subterminal line fine, yellowish, more or less interrupted 

 and irregular, defined on inner side by blackish spots ; a pale 

 apical patch ; a fine dark terminal line and yellowish line at base 

 of cilia. Hind wiug dusky yellowish, with dark discoidal lunule 

 and pale cilia with yellowish hue at base ; the underside whitish 

 to fuscous grey, with dark irroration and sometimes a discoidal 

 lunule and postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs {Bcmus). Exp. 33- 

 40 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



*527. Euxoa foeminalis. (Plate LXVI. fig. 11.) 

 Cai-neades fveminalis. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 454 (1000). 



$ , Head and thorax fuscous brown strongly mixed with grey ; 

 palpi blackish at sides except at tips; abdomen brownish grey. 

 Fore wing fuscous brown irrorated with grey ; the costal area 

 white, irrorated with fuscous to the postmedial line, then irrorated 

 with white, expanding to median nervure from base to antemedial 

 line ; the subbasal and antemedial lines represented by blackish 

 marks on costa, an obscure black dash below base of cell ; claviform 

 slightly defined by black; orbicular and reniform white, irrorated 

 with fuscous and defined by black, the former elongate, oblique 

 and open above, the latter somewhat angled inwards on median 

 nervure, the cell before and between them blackish ; the postmedial 

 line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards 

 in discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; some white points on 

 costa towards apex ; the subterminal line represented by an in- 

 distinct series of whitish points defined by fuscous on inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing pale brown ;. the cilia white, 

 with pale brown line near base ; the underside white, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a shght discoidal lunule, 

 and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Garfield Co. {Bruce), in Coll. J. B. Smith. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



