188 NOCTUIDzE. 



323. Euxoa mesotoxa. (Plate LX. fig. 30.) 



Agrotis mesotoxa, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 148 (1899). 



5 . Head and thorax dark brown, the scales slightlj- tipped with 

 grey ; pectus paler ; abdomen pale brown. Pore wing dark brown 

 irrorated with black : an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line defined by grey on inner 

 side, angled outwards below costa and more strongly above inner 

 margin and inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former small, elliptical, 

 with greyish anuulus, the latter wholly dark ; a slightly curved 

 and waved medial shade ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line 

 greyish, with small dentate black marks on its inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing cupreous brown ; cilia grey, with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish, the costul area irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Hawaii, Kona (Perhins), 1 $ type. Exp. 44 millim. 



324. Euxoa baliopa. (Plate LX. fig. 31.) 

 Agrotis baliojM, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 149 (1899). 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey : palpi and 

 frons darker, with some ochreous hair ; tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown mixed with grej'. Fore wing purplish grey, 

 irrorated and in places suffused with black ; an indistinct, waved, 

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

 antemedial line strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform with its extremity defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form with fuscous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the 

 former round, the latter with its lower extremity produced between 

 veins 3, 4, and connected with a white-and-black U-shaped mark 

 below vein 3, the cell between the stigmata blackish ; an indistinct, 

 oblique, waved, medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line dentate, bent outwai'ds below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; the subterminal line whitish, with dark patch on its inner 

 side at costa, angled outwards at vein 7, then represented by white 

 points on dentate black marks ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia pale, with brown line near base ; 

 the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, 

 sinuous postmedial line, and terminal series of points. 



Hah. Hawaii, Haleakala {Perlcins), 2 c?, 1 $ , type. Exy. 46 

 millim. 



*325. Euxoa canariensis. (Plate LXI. fig. 6.) 



Agrotis canariensis, Eebel, Aun. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, 1902, p. 59. 

 (S . Head and thorax brown irrorated with bluish grey ; tarsi 



