210 NocTriD^. 



349. Euxoa niveilinea. (Plate LXI. fig. 27.) 



Agrotis niveilinea, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 216 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 89. 



Head and thorax grey and brown ; vertex of head, terminal half 

 of tegulse and edges of patagia mixed with black ; tegulae tipped 

 with white ; thorax with a white patch on dorsum ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen white, the legs irrorated with brown. Fore wing 

 yellowish brown ; a subcostal white fascia tapering to a point 

 beyond middle ; the median nervure, veins 3, 4, 6, 7, and the terminal 

 part of vein 1 defined by fine white streaks ; a white-edged subbasal 

 diamond-shaped mark below cell open above and below, its outer 

 edge formed by the antemedial line which is otherwise obsolete, 

 and with the black-edged vitta-shaped claviform on its outer edge ; 

 the orbicular and reniform white with brownish centres and blackish 

 edges, the former oblique elliptical, the latter well developed ; an 

 oblique brownish-white fascia in submedian interspace from below 

 middle of cell to postmedial line, which is grey and oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, then brownish, minutely dentate and inwardly 

 oblique ; the subterminal line brownish, minutely dentate, angled 

 inwards below costa and incurved below vein 3 ; a fine pale 

 terminal line. Hind wing white, the veins and termeu tinged with 

 brown ; faint traces of a postmedial line. 



Huh. U.S.A., Nebraska, Kansas, 1 c? , Grote Coll., Texas, Colorado 

 {Bruce), 1 $ , New Mexico. Exp., J 32, $ 34 millim. 



350. Euxoa oblongistigma. (Plate LXI. fig. 28.) 



Agrotis oblongistigma, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 454 (1887) ; id. Cat. 

 JSfoct. N. Am. p. 89. 



S . Head and basal part of tegulae grey-brown, thorax dark 

 broAvn ; tegulffi with medial black line ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 grey largely mixed with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing 

 pale brownish ; a black streak below basal part of cell ; the ante- 

 and postmedial lines obsolete ; claviform filled in with black ; 

 orbicular and reniform concolorous, defined by black before and 

 between them, the former oblique, open above, the latter narrow, 

 lunulate ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, with dentate black 

 marks on inner side of its medial part, expanding into a bidentate 

 mark at vein 6 and crossed by pale streaks on each side of veins 3, 

 4 ; an obscure pale streak from below medial part of cell to sub- 

 terminal line ; cilia pale, with two brown lines through them. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the disk whitish ; cilia white ; the 

 underside with discoidal lunule. 



Nab: U.S.A., Montana, Black Hills, Colorado (Bruce), 2 $ , 

 Twin Lakes (Coclerell), 1 J , California, Nevada Co., 1 $ . E.vp. 

 30 millim. 



