186 NOCTUTD^. 



outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; the termen and cilia 

 with fine pale lines. Hind wing- semihyaline white. 



Hah. Chili, Coqnimbo {J. J. Walker), 1 ^ type. Exj). 34 millim. 



318. Euxoa americaiia. (Plate LX. fig. 26.) 

 Lu'pcrina americana, Elaiich. Gay's Chile, Ids. vii. p. 77, pi. 4. f. 8 (1852). 



Head and thorax red-brown, the scales with greyish tips ; abdomen 

 ochreons irrorated with brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing 

 red-brown irrorated with dark brown ; a double, black, pale-centred, 

 subbasal Hue from costa to submedian fold interrupted in cell ; a 

 similar antemedial line angled outwards below costa, in cell and 

 strongly above inner margin, excurved below submedian fold ; 

 orbicular and reniform moderate, with fuscous centres, rufous 

 annuli, and black outline, the former round ; postmedial line double, 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in 

 discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; the subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, minutely dentate, excurved below costa and at middle, with 

 fuscous patch before it at -eosta and the area beyond it darker; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 veins and terminal area tinged with brown ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with brown ; a terminal series of black 

 points. 



Bah. Chili, Valparaiso {J. J. Wallxr, Edmonds)., 4 c? , 2 $ . 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



319. Euxoa bogdanovi. 



Leucania bogdanovi, Ersch. Fedtscb. Eeis. p. 45, pi. 4. f. 54(1874) ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. 

 Hi/ptelia gruoni, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 170; id. Rom. Meui. v. 



p. 170, pi. 7. f. 7. 



(S . Head and thorax ochreous, slightly mixed with rufous ; 

 abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous ; an 

 oblique waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly 

 outlined with rufous, the latter placed on a waved diffused rufous 

 medial line angled at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line minutely 

 dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique : the terminal area somewhat more suffused with rufous. 

 Hind wing ochreous. Underside of both wings with indistinct 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. W. TtjPvKesxan, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul, 1 d . Exp. 40 

 millim. 



320. Euxoa mollis. (Plate LX. fig. 27.) 

 Agrotis mollis, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 271 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. 



(S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous, thickly 

 suffused with pale grey-brown ; orbicular and reniform obscurely 



