232 KOCTDID^. 



401, Eiixoa homicida. (Plate LXIII. fig. 6.) 



Aqrotis homicida, Stand. Iris, sii. p. 363, pi. 6. f. 7 (1900); id. Cat. Lep, 

 ■pal. p. 149. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown ; abdomen grey. 

 Fore wing grey tinged with brown and strongly irrorated with 

 black ; the subbasal line represented by some black scales below 

 cell ; the antemedial line oblique, waved ; claviform very faintly 

 defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform obscurely 

 defined by blackish, the former round ; postmedial line minutely 

 dentate, defined by greyish on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line only 

 defined by slight fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing white, the veins 

 and terminal area suffused with brown, broadly in female ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. Asia Minoe, Pontus, Taurus, 1 c? , 1 $ . Exid. 34 millim. 



402. Euxoa contagionis. (Plate LXIII, fig. 7.) 



Carneades contagionis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mu3. xxii. p. 42] (1900). 



S . "White ; head and thorax slightly mixed with fuscous ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tibiae and tarsi blackish above with white 

 rings. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line 

 represented by black points on costa and below cell ; the ante- 

 medial line almost obsolete, waved, with a black point at costa ; 

 the orbicular a small blackish spot, the reniform a small lunule ; 

 the postmedial line very indistinct, punctiform, with a prominent 

 black spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; faint traces of a dark sinuous subterminal line ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing with very slight 

 brown tinge on veins and termen. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, 1 S , Colorado. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



*403. Euxoa tronella. (Plate LXIII. fig. 8.) 

 Carneades troncUus, Smith, ined. 



S . Head and thorax white, very slightly tinged with ochreous- 

 brown and irrorated with dark brown ; abdomen white. Fore 

 wing sparsely irrorated with brown ; the subbasal, antemedial, 

 and postmedial lines almost obsolete ; the orbicular and reniform 

 represented by slight fuscous centres ; the subterminal line 

 defined by the area beyond it being slightly browner and by a 

 browner patch before it at costa, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark 

 points. Hind wing white, the veins and medial part of termeu 

 very slightly irrorated with brown. 



5 , Head, thorax, and fore wing more thickly irrorated with 

 brown, the last with the markings more distinct; a waved ante- 



