614 



NOCTUID^. 



at vein 1 ; a brown antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, 

 acutely angled outwards below costa and above inner margin and 

 excurved below cell ; orbicular and reniform grey, defined by black, 

 the former rather oblique, elliptical, and with a black streak below 

 it from antemedial line to the reniform ; the postmedial line strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to points on 

 the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, defined by grey on outer 

 side, and stronger at costa as also are the antemedial and subbasal 

 lines ; an indistinct subterminal line defined by grey on outer side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, a slight terminal 

 series of points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia grev at tips. 

 Underside of both wings with indistinct discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. hadkoUis. Fore wing greyer, irrorated with black and 

 sometimes tinged with ferruginous ; the black markings strong, 

 the black sometimes filling end of cell ; a small black-edged clavi- 

 forra stigma, 



Ab. 2. janualis. Like typical form, but without the black streak 

 in the cell. 



Hah. Caxada, Eenfrew Co.. 1 c? , 1 2 ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, 

 Abingdon {Bates), 1 J , 2 $ , ]S"ew York, 4 c? , 4 $ , type and type 

 jamadis, Washington D,C,, Virginia, 1 9 , Colorado {CocJiereU), 1 § , 

 Exj). 40-44 millim. 



1064. Eurois tenebrifera. (Plate LXXYL fig. 23.) 



Hadena tmchrifera, Wlk. xxxiii. 727 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Aiu. 



p. 62. 

 Matuta catherina, Grote, Cau. Ent. vi. p. 116 (1874). 

 Agrotis mcmifestolahes, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 166 (1874). 



Head and thorax rufous, the scales tipped with grey ; palpi black, 

 tipped with white : tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen pale whitish 

 brown, the ventral surface dark ferruginous. Fore wing ferruginous 

 with some dark irroration ; an indistinct subbasal line from costa to 

 vein 1 ; traces of an indistinct slightly curved antemedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined bj' an irroration of white 

 scales on the ground-colour, the former oblique, elliptical ; traces of 

 a dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4 ; traces of a sinuous subterminal line ; some terminal 

 dark points. Hind ^^■iug pale reddish brown ; the underside with 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Caxada {Norman), 1 $ ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and 

 Middle States, Massachusetts, Cambridge (3Io7'nson), 1 (^ , type 

 manifestolahes. Exjp. 36 millim. 



Sect. II. (Enrois). Antenna of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing not tinged with green. 



a. Fore wiog with black streak below base of cell indetenninaia. 



b. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. 



a}. Tegiilic white with dark tips stellarls. 



