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347. Euxoa pugionis. (Plate LXI. fig. 25.) 



Carneades pugionis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 419 (1900). 



S • Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with reddish brown ; 

 abdomeu grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Eore wing red-brown ; 

 the costal area yellowish white to near apex ; the inner area 

 j'ellowish white ; two subbasal black points below cell ; the ante- 

 medial line black, obsolete except from subcostal nervure to vein 1 

 and angled inwards on median nervure ; claviform slightly defined 

 by black with a yellowish fascia from it to subterminal line; orbicular 

 and reniform with brownish centres and yellowish annuli defined 

 by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above ; median nervure 

 streaked with white ; the postmedial line punctiform, black, bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, 

 obsolete below vein 1 ; veins 3, 4, 6, 7 defined by dentate white 

 streaks to near termen intersecting the subterminal line, which is 

 represented by a series of small dentate black spots in the inter- 

 spaces ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia yellowish at 

 base, brownish at tips. Hind wing pure white, the termen very 

 slight^ tinged with brown. 



. Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Calgary, 1 c? ; U.S.A., Colorado 

 {Bruce), 1 J . Exp. 30 milllim. 



348. Euxoa quadridentata. (Plate LXI. fig. 26.) 



Agrotis quadridentata, Grote & Rob. Proc. Enf. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 491, pi. 3. 

 ff. 2, 3 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 89. 



^ . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and black ; 

 tegulse with ochreous band in front and tipped with white: abdomen 

 ochreous white, dorsally more or less irrorated with brown. Fore 

 wing greyish brown ; a whitish fascia below costa extending to 

 costa at base and ending in streaks on the veins beyond middle ; 

 streaks on median nervure and veins 3, 4 ; an ochreous fascia on 

 inner margin ; two oblique black striae below base of cell ; the 

 antemedial line consisting of an oblique black line across cell and a 

 line angled outwards below cell and confluent with the well-developed 

 black-edged claviform ; the orbicular and reniform whitish tinged 

 with brown and black-edged, the former oblique, elliptical, the 

 latter well developed ; an ochreous fascia in submedian fold from 

 below middle of cell to near subterminal line ; the postmedial line 

 black, very oblique from costa to vein 6, angled outwards on veins 

 6 and 5, then as an oblique series of small dentate marks ; the 

 subterminal line consisting of a series of small dentate black marks 

 obsolete towards costa and inner margin and with two dentate 

 white marks on it below apex; cilia white, with three brown lines 

 through them. Hind wing white, the vein and terminal area 

 brownish ; a discoidal point sometimes present. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, Colorado (Snoiv), 1 cj' , California ( Wal- 

 singham), 2 c? • Exj). 30-36 millim. 



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