324 NOCTUID^. 



spot; the underside with darker irroration, a discoidal spot and 

 postruedial Hue. 



IJah. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada (McGJasJian). Eay. 34- 

 37 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photo- 

 graph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



574. Euxoa prouycta, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. fig. 14.) 



c? . Head and thorax yellow-brown mixed with white-tipped 

 black hairs, the thorax tinged with purplish red ; tibife and tarsi 

 blackish ringed with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with 

 brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing ochreous or greyish, 

 irrorated and striated with fuscous, the costal area darker ; an 

 indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line; orbicular re- 

 presented by a small black spot; reniform moderate, black; the 

 postmedial line represented by a series of black points on the veins, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; indistinct subterminal 

 and tei'minal series. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal area 

 tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 S type, Umtali 

 (Marshall), 1 J • ■^'^i?. 32 millim. 



575. Euxoa reclusa. (Plate LXYII. fig. 15.) 

 Graphij^hora rechisa, Wlk. x. 403 (1856). 



S . Head and tegulis red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi black at 

 sides, in front and at extremity and lower part of frons whitish ; 

 thorax grey ; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 reddish brown, irrorated and striated with fuscous ; the subbasal 

 line represented by dark striag from costa and cell ; the antemedial 

 line indistinct, double, waved, with dark points at costa and sub- 

 median fold ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and their 

 annuli defined by brown, the former indistinct, round ; the post- 

 medial line indistinct, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line defined by 

 fuscous on inner side, slight except towards costa, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces whitish 

 towards base; cilia whitish, with brown line through them; 

 the underside white, a black discoidal lunule, the apical area with 

 somewhat diff'used black patch extending to vein 2. 



5 . Head and tegula; less red. 



Hah. Australia, 3 c? , 1 $ type ; S. Australia, Gisborne {Lower), 

 1 $ . Exp. 34-40 millim. 



576. Euxoa indigna. (Plate LXYII. fig. 16.) 



Apamea indigna, Herr.-Schaff. Ausser. Eur. Schiuett. f. 130 (1850). 

 Agrotis dividens, Wlk. x. 342 (1851)). 

 Axylia intcndtns, Wlk. xi. 717 (1857). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with black or entirely suffused 



