PRONOCTTJA. EUERETAGKOXIS. 



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grey-browu. Fore wing iuteous grey, irrorated and more or less 

 sutfused with brown; a double, waved, brown subbasal line from costa 

 to vein 1 ; a double, waved, autemedial line : orbicular andreniform 

 very indistinctly defined by brown, the medial shade passing between 

 them and bent inwards to'costa : the postmedial line arising from a 

 black point on costa, dentate and produced to pale points at the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, strongly angled inwards at vein 

 5 and outwards at vein 4, then oblique ; a pale dentate subterminal 

 line angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards in discal fold and with 

 the area beyond it browner; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line 

 through them ; the underside suffused with white except towards 

 termeu, an indistinct curved sinuous postmedial line. 

 Hah. U.S.A., Cahfornia, 2 $ . Exp. 42 millim. 



Genus EUERETAGROTIS. 



Eueretagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 47 (1890) 



Type. 



sigmoides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 2nd 

 joint broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd well-developed and nearly 

 naked ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male typically ciliated ; 

 head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, tlie pro- and metathorax with 

 well-developed spreading tufts ; fore tibite broadly fringed with hair ; mid and 

 hind tibia; spined ; abdomen with some i-ough hair at base of dorsum. Fore 

 wing usually broad, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from 

 cell. Hind wing with the termen slightly excised at discal fold ; veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; (5, 7 shortly 

 stalked or from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Antenna of male with short fasciculate branches. 



IIOS. Eueretagrotis patricia. 



Jgrofispafricia, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 312 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the head and 

 tegulte mostly black ; palpi blackish, ochreous at tips ; frons with 

 black bar ; pectus and legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grcv-brown, the ventral surface blackish. Fore wing 



Fig. 116. — Euerefagrotis patricia, J. \. 



ochreous brown, the medial area to median nervurc blackish, the 

 inner medial area and terminal area purplish brown : the subbasal line 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; a double, slightly waved, 

 obliquely curved autemedial line with some purplish brown before 



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