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pale, dark-edged ; subdorsal line pale, edged above with dark 

 brown ; subspiracular line pale, double ; head marked Avith black. 

 Food-plants: Chenopodium, Rumex, Trifolium, etc. 8-5. 



*298. Euxoa cinchonina. (Plate LX. fig. 14.) 

 Agrotis cinchonina, Gruen. IVoct. i. p. 281 (1852). 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown, mixed with dark brown ; 

 abdomen red-brown. Fore wing red-brown, suffused and irrorated 

 with fuscous, especially on medial area ; the subbasal line indistinct, 

 double from costa to submedian nervure, slightly angled outwards 

 below costa ; the antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards 

 below costa, and more strongly above inner margin ; claviform 

 defined by blackish, large, rounded ; orbicular and reniform defined 

 by blackish and with blackish centres, the former large, round ; the 

 postmedial line double, minutely waved, rather indistinct, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line defined by very slight dark sufirision, more distinctljf at costa ; a 

 fine dark terminal line. Hind wing dark brown with a yellowish 

 tinge; the underside paler with some dark irroration, a discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial series of strise on the veins. 



Hah. Abyssinia, type t 5 in Mus. Paris. Exp. 34 millim. 



299. Euxoa edictalis. (Plate LX. fig. 15.) 

 Carneades edictalis, Smith, Ent. News Philad. iv. p. 99, pi. vi. f. 3 (1893). 



(S . Head and thorax reddish brown largely mixed with grey ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tegulge with slight dark medial line ; 

 abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey, suff'used with 

 reddish brown and irrorated with black ; the subbasal line double, 

 black, waved from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line 

 double, dentate, oblique ; claviform small, outlined with black ; 

 orbicidar and reniform outlined with black, the former round, the 

 latter with some fuscous in its lower extremity, the area between 

 them slightly tinged with black ; the postmedial line strongly crenu- 

 late, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; an 

 indistinct dentate subterminal line ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing pale dusky brown, the discoidal lunule and terminal 

 - line darker. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 S • Exp. 40 millim. 



30u. Euxoa admirationis. 



Agrotis admirationis, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. \. p. 38 (1868) ; Hudson New 



Zealand Maer. Lep. p. 31, pi. v. f. 37. 

 Chersotis sericea, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 490 (1879). 

 Chersotis inconspicua, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 545 (1880). 



Head and thorax grey-brown irrorated with fuscous ; palpi with 

 the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; abdomen brownish grey, irrorated 

 with black in female. Fore wing brownish grey, usually more or 



