304 KOClUiDJE, 



541. Euxoa divergens. (Plate LXVI. fig. 22.) 



Agrotis divergens, Wlk. x. 327 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 107. 

 Agrotis versipellis, Grote, Can. Ent. Tii. p. 172, pi. i. f. 9 (1875). 



S . Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with grey and 

 white ; palpi blackish at sides; tegulse with medial black line ; tibiae 

 and tarsal joints at extremities with white rings; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing brown, suffused with purplish 

 grey except just below the cell ; the costal area suffused with grey 

 to the postmedial line ; a black fascia below base of cell, and pure 

 white streaks on median nervure and base of subcostal nervure ; 

 the subbasal line curved, whitish from costa to vein 1 ; the ante- 

 medial line grey, defined by black on each side, excurved in and below 

 cell and more strongly above inner margin ; the claviform strongly 

 defined by black ; the orbicular and reniform defined by black, with 

 grey annuli and grey-speckled brown centres, the former oblique, 

 the latter moderate, the cell before and between them and the area 

 between the reniform and postmedial line black ; the postmedial line 

 dentate, black defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line grey, 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; a fine pale 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing brown, whitish towards base ; the 

 i-ilia white, with a brown line through them ; the underside more 

 irrorated with brown ; a discoidal lunula and traces of curved post- 

 medial line. 



5 . The anal tuft not fulvous ; the hind wing more uniform brown. 



Hab. Canada, JS'ova Scotia {Redman), 2 J type; U.S.A., 3 <^, 

 1 5 type versijyellis, Maine, Massachusetts, Colorado, California, 

 Sierra Nevada, 1 5 Grote Coll. E^qj. 40 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 318 (1899). 



Head 2*9 millim., shining brown, the dark curved vertical shade 

 distinct above and near the median suture ; reticulations pale, 

 obscure, dividing the sides into rounded dark spots. Cervical shield 

 brown, darker before and behind, bisected by pale. Bod}- sordid 

 greyish, translucent, scarcelj- marked. Dorsal area broadly pale 

 and nearly straight, subvcntral region light ; spiracles black ; setae 

 minute. Probablv a general feeder. — H. G. D. 



*542. Euxoa nordica. (Plate LXVI. fig. 23.) 

 Carneadcs nordica, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 455 (1900). 



S . Head and thorax very dark brown mixed with some grey ; 

 frons with black bars at middle and between anteunce ; tegulos more 

 rufous, with strong black medial line ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 pale red-brown. Fore wing very dark brown, the costal and inner 

 areas tinged with grey ; a double, waved, black subbasal line filled 

 in with grey from cell to submedian fold, and with a blackish streak 

 below cell and pale grey spot beyond it in cell before the double, 

 waved, oblique antemedial line, which is somewhat angled outwards 

 below costa ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular small, 



