ETJEOIS. 



617 



l^aler thickly irroratecl with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver I., 1 $ type : U.S.A., Washington Terr., 

 1 $ , Colorado, California. Exp. 40 millim. 



1069. Eurois prasina. 



Noctua 2^rasiiia, Scbiff. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (177(i) ; Fabr. Maut. Ins, ii. 



p. 169 (1787) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153; Smitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 57. 

 Xoctita Jierbida, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., !Xoct. fF. 76, 505 : Herr.-Schiiff. 



Schuiett. Eur. ii. p. 263; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 248 ; Stepb'. 111. Brit.Ent., 



Haust. iii. p. 30, pi. 27. f. 3; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 395, pi. 97. f. 3. 

 Noctua ccircgia, Esp. ^cluuett. pi. 119. f, 7 (1792). 

 Noctua jaspidea, Bork. Eur. Scbmett. iv. p. 440 (1793). 

 Noctua mixta, Haw. Lep. Bi'it. p. 187 (1809). 

 PolypheBiiis herhacea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 73 (1852). 

 Agrotts albiraacula, Hormuz. Ent. Nacbr. 1894, p. 53. 



Head whitish and green ; palpi black, white at tips ; thorax dark 

 or pale red-brown mixed with green, white, and black scales ; 

 abdomen grej'-brown or•^vhitish brown. Fore wing purple-brown, 

 grey-brown, or rarely whitish with, diffused yellow-green fascia) on 

 costa, in discal fold, below the cell and vein 2, and on inner margin ; 

 a double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 filled in 





Fig. l\Q.— Eurois prad7ia, (^ . 



with white, a similar oblique antemedial line filled in with green on 

 inner area ; elaviform defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, defined by black and with greyish annuli, the former oblique, 

 elliptical, the latter with large whitish patch beyond it before the 

 postmedial line, which is double, dentate, and produced to points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; some white points on apical part of costa ; a subterminal 

 series of dentate green marks, angled outwards at vein 7, with some 

 black before it at costa and dentate black marks below costa and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia intersected 

 with fuscous. Hind wing dark or pale red-brown ; the cilia 

 yellowish white ; the underside with dark discoidal spot, sinuous 

 postmedial line, and dittused subterminal line. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 2 S ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverly, 

 2 cf , 2 § , x^ew York, 1 c^" , 1 $ , Iowa, Colorado ; Britain ; France ; 

 Germany, ZeUer Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy ; Scandi- 



