EUXOA. ^17 



*364. Euxoa procellaris. (Plate LXIV. fig. 1.) 

 Agrotis procellaris, Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. xsxvi. p. 258 (1900). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with grej' ; tegulae 

 with black medial line ; tarsi blackish ringed with white. Pore 

 wing grey, tinged with red-brown and irrorated with black-brown ; 

 subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1, 

 excurved below costa and cell, strongly above inner margin ; clavi- 

 form moderate, distinctly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 moderate with brownish centres defined b}'^ black and connected by 

 a blackish streak above median nervure, the former round ; post- 

 medial line defined by grey on outer side, dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards 

 on vein 1 ; subterminal line grey, defined by a slight dark shade on 

 inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous 

 sutt'used with brown, paler towards base and inner margin, more 

 uniformly sufi^used in female ; the underside whitish, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown. 



Mob. Hawaii, Laysan I., type t J ? in Mus. Bremen, Exj?. 44- 

 millim. 



865. Euxoa sponsa. (Plate LXII. fig. 8.) 



Agrotis sponsa, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 457 (1887) ; id. Cat. jMoct. 

 N. Am. p. 90. 



2 . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; tegulte 

 with black medial line ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey mixed 

 with fuscous brown. Pore wing fuscous brown irrorated with grey 

 and black ; the subbasal line represented by double black striae from 

 costa and median nervure, the latter oblique ; the antemedial line 

 oblique, waved, defined by greyish on inner side ; claviform minute, 

 obsciirely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black 

 and with slight dark centres, the former round ; a slight oblique 

 waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line 

 minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, 

 minutely dentate and slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, slightly defined by black on inner side, the area beyond 

 it suffused with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing fuscotis, paler towards base and inner margin ; the cilia whitish 

 with fuscous line at base ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with black, a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, 1 5 . Exp. 38 millim. 



*366. Euxoa loya. (Plate LXII. fig, 9.) 

 Carneades loya, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 422 (1900). 



$ . Dark mouse-grey ; tegulae with a broad dark band. Fore 

 wing with the lines almost obsolete, indicated by a few dark scales ; 



