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legs, and abdomen grej'-white, the legs streaked with black, the 

 tarsi banded with black, and the abdomen dorsally tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing grey-brown with a rufous tinge ; a sinuous 

 black streak on median nervure from base to the antemedial line 

 which is obsolescent towards costa and inner margin, angled inwards 

 on median nervure, then escurved and with the claviform stigma on 

 its outer edges, this being either vitta-shajjed with black outline or 

 small and solid ; the orbicular well-developed, oblique, with black 

 outline ; the reniform well-developed, with pale line inside its black 

 outline ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, indistinct, strongly 

 excurved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique ; an obscure 

 dentate subterminal line bent inwards at veins 5, 6, and with four 

 dentate black marks on its inner edge, the area beyond it tinged 

 with fuscous ; a crenulate black terminal line ; a fine pale line at 

 base of cilia, which are grey pencilled with fuscous. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and termen brown ; underside with discoidal point, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 2 c? Grrote Coll. type. Exp. 40 millim. 



339. Euxoa cicatricosa. (Plate LXI. fig. 18.) 



Agrotis cicatricosa, Grote & Rob. Proc. Ent. Soe. Phil. iv. p. 492, pi. 3. 

 f. 4 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 88. 



$ . Head and thorax white ; the vertex of head and terminal 

 part of tegulse tinged with fawn-colour, the thorax slightly tinged 

 with purplish grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white. Fore wing 

 grey-brown ; a white fascia below costa, to which it extends near 

 base, tapering to a point beyond middle ; some blackish antemedial 

 and postmedial points on costa ; a rounded black-edged yellowish 

 spot below base of cell with its outer edge somewhat indented below 

 median nervure ; claviform a small black vitta and a small vitta 

 with yellowish before it on inner margin ; the orbicular and 

 reniform yellowish, the former somewhat V-shaped, the latter large, 

 prominent ; an oblique yellowish fascia below vein 2 from middle 

 of median nervure to subterminal line ; the postmedial line formed 

 of small dentate black marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 6, 

 then oblique ; whitish streaks on veins 3, 4 from cell to the indistinct 

 dentate subterminal line, where they form two stronger teeth ; a 

 broad yellowish band between the postmedial and subterminal lines 

 bent outwards to apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia yellowish white, with a few brown-tipped scales. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and medial part of termen sometimes tinged with 

 brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., iSTevada, 1 5 , Grote Coll., California (Wa/stn^/Ziam), 

 1 2 • Exj). 30-34 millim. 



340. Euxoa suhspinifera, n. sp. (Plate LXI. fig. 19.) 



S . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with white : abdomen 

 ochreous, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with pale brown. 



