EUXOA. 221 



abdomen browner and irrorated with grey. Fore wing with in- 

 distinct double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; an indistinct waved black antemedial line with the small 

 indistinct claviform on its outer side ; the orbicular and reniform 

 large and defined by black lines, the former round and often con- 

 joined to the antemedial line, the latter often with grey patch on 

 its outer side ; the postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 3, then bent inwards and oblique, often 

 reduced to points on the veins ; a subterminal sinuous series of black 

 and grey points on the veins ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white, the veins, costal area, and termen tinged with 

 fuscous brown ; a postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins 

 often present ; cilia brown, with fine pale line at base and white 

 tips. 



5 . Hind wing fuscous brown, the cell and area near it indistinctly 

 whitish. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., E. & Middle States, New York, 3 r? , 1 $ 

 type, Grote Coll. Exp. 3G-3S millim. 



375. Euxoa atomaris. (Plate LXII. fig. 18.) 



Agrotis atomaris, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 47 (1890); id. Cat. 

 JSToct. N. Am. p. 92. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous black, with a few ochreous and 

 grey scales, especially on edges of tegulse, patagia, and in dorsal crest ; 

 pectus and legs largely mixed with white; abdomen white irrorated 

 with brown, and tinged with ochreous on dorsum. Fore wing 

 ochreous, almost entirely suffused with fuscous black ; the subbasal 

 line represented by two points on costa ; the antemedial line very 

 indistinct, waved ; claviform elongate, finely outlined with black ; 

 orbiculaf and reniform indistinct, obscurely outlined with black ; 

 the postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; the subterminal line 

 represented by points of whitish scales; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the veins towards termen, 

 apical part of termen, and a fine terminal line brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado (ifwZsf), 1 c5' , California. Exp. 2Qm\\\im. 



376. Euxoa adumhrata, 



Agrotis adumhrata, Ev. Bull. Mosc. iii. p. 543 (1842) ; Herr.-SchafF. Scbmett. 



Eur., Noct. f. 121 ; Stavid. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. 

 Agrotis ohscura, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1874, p. 94 ; id. Eom. Mem ii 



pi. 2. f. 6. 

 Agrotis polygonides, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1874, p. 94 ; id. Eom. Mem 



ii. p. 30, pi. 2. f. 5. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; abdomen grey, 

 tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish, 

 completely suffused with fuscous brown or with the medial and 

 terminal areas darker ; an indistinct, pale, waved, subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an obhqne, dark, ^vaved, antemedial line 



