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355. Euxoa biclavis. (Plate LXII. fig. 1.) 



Agrotis biclavis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Sury. v. p. 206 (1879) ; id. 111. Essay, 

 53, pi. i. f. 12 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 91. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white, very slightly tinged with 

 brown ; tarsi banded with brown. Fore wing white, slightly 

 suffused in places with brown, especially in lower part of cell, below 

 the cell, on middle of inner area and on terminal area ; a slightly 

 sinuous black streak from base in submedian fold to the large 

 elongate black-edged claviform ; orbicular and reniform white, black- 

 edged, a short black streak in cell to the orbicular, which is produced 

 on outer side and confluent with the reniform, which has its lower 

 extremity produced inwards on median nervure so that it is some- 

 what S-shaped and is centred with brown ; no trace of the ante- and 

 postmedial lines ; the veins of terminal area pure white ; the sub- 

 terminal line represented by two obliquely-placed black striae from 

 termen below apex to vein 5, then a series of small dentate marks 

 to vein 2 ; a fine terminal black line. Hind wing pure white, with 

 slight brown shade on veins. 



5 . Considerably more suffused with brown ; the inner half of 

 hind wing tinged with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Tuczon 1^,15 type Grote Coll. Exp. 

 6 36, $ 40 millim. 



*356. Euxoa atristrigata. (Plate LXIX. fig. 11.) 



Carneades atristrigata. Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Miis. 38, p. 150 (1890) ; id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 91. 



S . Ashen grey irrorated with black : tegulae with black medial 

 line. Fere wing thickly irrorated with black; the lines obsolete ; 

 orbicular narrow, elongate and confluent with the small erect reni- 

 form ; a pale shade from end of cell to apex; veins 3, 4 marked 

 with white to near termen ; cilia intersected with white. Hind 

 wing white, the terminal area broadly tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Canada, N.W. Br. Columbia. Exp. 30 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn 

 Inst. Arts & Sci. 



357. Euxoa hollemani. (Plate LXII. fig. 2.) 



Aqrotis'hollemani,(j:i:oi%,Q,»M..'^xA.V\.T^. 156 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 'N. Am. p. 91. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; palpi blackish at 

 sides ; some black hair between bases of antennae ; tegulae with 

 black medial line; patagia sometimes edged with blackish above; 

 abdomen grey, dorsally with a slight ochreous tinge. Fore wing 

 grey-brown, the area just below and beyond the cell reddish brown ; 

 a sinuous black streak below basal half of cell ; the orbicular grey, 

 black-edged, diamond-shaped, confluent with the grey costal area 

 and with its outer angle usually produced and confluent with the 



