182 NOCXtrlD^. 



above, the lower part of cell between them black ; postmedial line 

 double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line represented by an 

 indistinct series of small dentate dark marks and a dark patch before 

 it on costa ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline white. 



$ . Fore wing suffused vidth fuscous brown, leaving a diffused 

 ochreous streak below basal two-thirds of costa and patch at apex. 



Hah. Chili, Valparaiso {J. J. WalJcer), 1 J , 1 $ . Ex^. 

 42 millim. Type t $ in Mus. Paris. 



311. Euxoa araucaria, n. sp. (Plate LX, lig. 21.) 



J . Head and thorax clothed with pale red-brown, fuscous, and 

 grey scales ; tegulse with black medial line ; patagia grey, edged 

 with black and pale brown above ; tarsi fuscous, ringed with white ; 

 abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wiug whitish, irrorated and 

 suffused with pale brown ; the basal and costal areas suffused with 

 black ; a double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 a double waved antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and 

 very stroiigly above inner margin ; claviform moderate, blackish, 

 defined by deep black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres 

 and whitish annuli defined by black, the former small and produced 

 to a point on outer side, a brown fascia in cell between the stigmata ; 

 an indistinct oblique waved line from cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

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

 terminal area suffused with brown, with traces of a pale dentate 

 subterminal line. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged 

 with brown; the underside with discoidal point and postmedial 

 series of dark streaks on the veins. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing pale brownish irrorated with black, but without 

 black suffusion. — Argentina. 



Hah. Chili, Yalparaiso {J. J. Walker), 1 J type : Aegejs^tika, 

 Andes (Fitzgerald), 1 d" . FJ.vj^. 40 millim. 



312. Euxoa obelisca. 



Noctxia ohelisca, Scbiff. Wien. Verz. p. 223 (1776) ; Hiibu. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 123 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 214, pi. 64. f. 3 ; Steph. III. 



Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 124; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 151. 

 Noctua ruris, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 416 (1827). i 



Noctua 'praticola, Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. .567 (1827). 

 NocUiafictilis, Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 710 (1827). 

 Agrotis villiersii, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1837, p. 173, pi. 8. IF. 1, 2; 



Herr.-Schafl'. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. .532. 

 Agrotis declarans, Wlk. x. 347 (1856). 



cJ . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with grey ; tegulae with 

 blackish medial line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-brown. 

 Fore wing purplish brown, the inner and terminal areas paler ; the 

 costal area suffused with white to the postmedial line ; a black 

 streak below base of cell ; an indistinct subbasal line curved from 



