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329. Euxoa pallidifrons, n. sp. (Plate LXI. %. 9.) 



(^ . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; frons whitish ; 

 palpi blackish ; tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. Fore wing pale grey-brown 

 irrorated with black ; a waved blackish subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 very indistinctly defined by black and with a black spot between 

 them ; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing pale 

 fuscous, the cilia ochreous white ; the underside ochreous white, 

 with slight discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



5 . Head and thorax pale ochreous brown ; fore wing with the 

 orbicular and reniform rather more distinct. 



Hah. C. Asia, 1 J , 1 5 , type Leech Coll. Exp. 38 millim. 



330. Euxoa cremata. (Plate LXI. fig. 10.) 



Spislotis cremata, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. svii. p. 8 (1880). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; palpi blackish at sides 

 except at extremity ; tegulse with black medial line with rufous 

 before it ; abdomen fuscous mixed with grey, the anal tuft rufous. 

 Fore wing grey irrorated and suffused with fuscous and slightly 

 tinged with rufous ; a double dentate subbasal black line filled in 

 with whitish, from costa to submedian fold ; a similar antemedial 

 line angled ontwards below costa and above inner margin, inwards 

 on median nervure and excurved below cell ; claviform and orbicular 

 almost obsolete ; reniform represented by a minute black annulus 

 with sti'eak above it in male ; an indistinct medial line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line dentate and produced 

 to points on the veins, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved; a whitish subterminal line, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and defined by small dentate black marks on its inner side ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown : the 

 cilia white at tips ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a small discoidal sp_ot and curved postmedial series of 

 short striae. 



Hah. Haavaii, Maui (BlacJchurn), 1 c? type, Oahu, 1 5 . Kv2). 

 48 millim. 



Larva. Blackburn, Ent. Mo. Mag. sis. p. 56. 



Hather broad and depressed, especially near the head where it is 

 rather swollen ; pale drab, the dorsal area, except on first and last 

 somites, with blackish patches decreasing in size towards extremity ; 

 thoracic shield testaceous edged with black ; head testaceous ; 

 spiracles black; legs and prolegs tipped with blackish. Food- 

 plant, a marine plant on sand-hills ; hiding in the sand by day. 



