grey scales, the former rather small, round, the latter large ; no trace 

 of antemedial line ; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely waved, 

 oblique from costa to vein 5, then inwardly oblique ; the subterminal 

 line indistinct, waved, greyish ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing white ; the veins brown ; the terminal area tinged with 

 brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes), in Coll. J. B. 

 Smith, Arizona, Tuczon, 1 5 , Grote Coll. Exjy. 42-48 millim. 



379. Euxoa gagates. (Plate LXII. fig. 21.) 



Agrotis ffagafes, Groie, Can. Ent. yii. p. 69 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 92. 



J . Head and thorax red-brown, some of the scales tipped with 

 white ; abdomen grey mixed with yellow-brown. Tore wing red- 

 brown ; the veins fuscous brown ; orbicular and reniform outlined 

 with white, the former small, round, the latter well developed, open 

 above and below ; no trace of antemedial line; the postmedial lino 

 indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; an indistinct waved grey subterminal line excurved 

 between veins 7 and 5 ; a terminal series of black points ; a fine 

 pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and termen 

 tinged with brown. 



2 . Hind wing with the veins brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with brown. 



Hah. Canada (Norman), 1 5 ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Abington 

 (Col. Bates), 1 J , Colorado, 1 2 type, Grote Coll., California. 

 Ex^)., S 40, 2 44 millim. 



*3S0. Euxoa dianthceciae. 



Agrotis dianthmicB, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 60 (1885) ; id. N. 

 Arch. Mus. (3) i. p. 147, pi. x. f. 8. 



cJ . Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with yellow-brown and 

 white ; abdomen pale yellow-brown. Fore Aving yellow-brown, 

 mixed with grey and irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct waved 

 subbasal line from costa to siabmedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 angled inwards in cell and outwards in submedian fold and on 

 vein 1 ; the orbicular and reniform small, whitish, the former round, 

 with a dark point on costa above it ; traces of an irregular medial 

 line ; postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, slightly angled inwards in discal 

 fold, more strongly at submedian fold ; subterminal line defined by 

 slight fuscous suffusion before it, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a slight terminal series of points. Hind wing 

 brown, the cilia white with a brown line at base; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Patagonia, Santa Cruz, type t c? in Mus. Paris, Exp. 

 34 millim. 



