204 KocTriDji;. 



b^-. Fore wing witb the postmedial area 



nearly concolorous strigilis. 



cT. Fore -vving with the orbicular obsolete servita. 



&'. Fore wing with oclireous and black fascice 



in discal and submedian folds jnctifascioj. 



b^. Forewingwithbrowustreaksin the interspaces. 

 a". Fore wing with the orbicular and reniiorin 



]3rcsen t axiliod.cs. 



b\ Fore wing with the orbicular and renii'orni 



obsolete lineifera. 



337. Euxoa vilsoni. (Plate LXI. fig. 16.) 



Agrods wilsonii, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. i. p. 135, pi. 4. f. 3 (1873) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. JSr. Am. p. 88. 

 Agrotis specials, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. ii. p. 62 (1874) ; id. 111. Essay, 54, 



pL 2.- f. 14(1882). 

 Agrotis mqiialis, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 36 (1876). 



Head and thorax varying from grey-brown to chestnut ; palpi 

 "with black mark ou side of 2nd joint ; legs with black hair mixed ; 

 abdomen grey. Fore wing grey -brown, often tinged with chestnut 

 except costal area ; an oblique subbasal grey striga below cell ; the 

 antemedial line obsolete towards costa, angled inwards on median 

 nervure, strongly excurved in submedian interspace, then acutely 

 angled outwards to inner margin, or obsolete ; the orbicular and 

 reniform grey often edged with black and with fuscous centres, the 

 former oblique, elliptical, or with its lower extremity produced ; the 

 claviform outlined with black, moderate ; the subterminal line 

 angled outwards at vein 6, strongly inwards at vein 5, then dentate, 

 the area beyond it more or less tinged Avith fuscous ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal area 

 rather deeper ; cilia white ; underside whitish, the costal area and 

 termen irrorated with brown ; a black discoidal spot. 



Ab, 1. specialis. Head, thorax, and ground-colour of fore wing 

 bright chestnut-red. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, California, 2 c? , 3 $ , 

 type S sj^ecialis and 5 type, and type cequalis, S. Francisco, I c? . 

 JExjp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 317 (1899). 



Head 3-6 mm., pale brown, reticulations very obscure, paler than 

 the ground-colour, vertical band obsolete above and below, existing 

 as a dash beside the clypeus ; body green, lined with white ; dorsal, 

 subdorsal, and lateral lines rather narrow, straight, transversely cut 

 into blotches ; substigmatal line broad, obscurely double, narrowly 

 green-centered. Feet pale ; spiracles black. Feeds on plants near 

 the sea-coast. — H. G. D. 



338. Euxoa lacunosa. (Plate LXI. fig. 17.) 



Agrotis lacunosa, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 172 (1878); Smith, Cat. 

 Koct. N. Am. p. 88. 



(S . Head and thorax grey-brown ; palpi with some black at 

 Bides ; frons witli black band ; teguPcC with black band ; pectus, 



