220 



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to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, slender, slightly 

 and irreg'ularly sinuous. Hind wing dull yellowish fuscous, paler 

 towards base ; the veins and a discoidal lunule darker ; the under- 

 side paler, with dark irroration especially towards apex ; a dark 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line. 



Hah. IJ.S.A., Montana, Black Hills. flvp. 34 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me, figured from a photograph from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



372. Eiixoa perfusca. (Plate LXII. fig. 15.) 



Agrotis perfusca, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 77 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 91. 



S . Head and thorax deep purple-brown, some of the scales tipped 

 with grey ; the edges of tegulse and patagia rufous ; abdomen grey 

 mixed with dark brown, the anal tuft rufous. Tore wing dark 

 fuscous brown ; the subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial lines hardly 

 traceable ; the claviform with its extremity defined by black ; the 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former large, oblique, 

 elliptical, open above and below, the latter large, open above and 

 below ; the subterminal line represented by a series of whitish points. 

 Hind wing white suffused with brown, especially the veins and 

 terminal area ; cilia white, with brown line at base ; the underside 

 -with indistinct curved postmedial line. 



5 . Hind wing more suffused with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, 1 <S , Oregon, 1 5 , Colorado, 

 Denver, California, Arizona. Ex-p. 36 millim. 



373. Euxoa fiimalis. (Plate LXII. fig. 16.) 



Agrotis fumcdis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 98 (1873); Smith, 



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

 Agrotis perniun da, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 163 (1874). 



Dull brown or dark grej^-brown ; head and thorax with the hair 

 grey-tipped. Pore wing with indistinct double, waved, black sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double quadrisinuate 

 antemedial line ; the orbicular represented by a dark point or 

 obsolete, the reniform an indistinct lunule ; the postmedial line 

 strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, 

 then oblique ; faint traces of an irregularly waved subterminal line ; 

 a terminal series of small lunules. Hind wing dark brown, the 

 cilia paler. Underside of both wings with discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., N., E. & Middle States, New York, 1 J , 

 1 2 , Windsor, 1 c? , Crete Coll. Exp. 40 millim. 



374. Euxoa velleripennis. (Plate LXII. fig. 17.) 



Agrotis velleripennis. Grote, Eep. Peab. Acad. Sci. V\. App. p. 2.5 (1874); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 92. 



(S . Dark fuscous brown with a greyish tinge ; pectus, legs, and 



