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abdomen brownish Avhite. Pore wing whitish, tinged with pale 

 brown and very slightly irrorated with black ; faint traces of an 

 oblique waved antemedial line, of brown-defined orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata, the former upright, elliptical, of a regular post- 

 medial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, and of a subterminal series of dark points ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white, with, slight diffused sub- 

 terminal fuscous band ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal point. 



Bah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Calgary, 1 J . Kijd. 36 millim. 



407. Euxoa Mrivia. 



Noctua hirivia, ScbifF. Wien. Verz. p. 71 (177(i); Hilbn. Samml. Enr. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 631; Hen-.-Scluiff. Sehmett. Eur. if. 9, 10; Treit. 



Schwiett. Eur. v. i. p. J 91 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. v. p. :2G7, pi. 70. f. 7 ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 

 Agrotis lionnoratina, Donz. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 474, pi. 18. fF. 3, 4 



(1837). 

 Agrotis dolis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 91 (1880) : Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 93. 



Head and thorax asby grey, the hairs being brownish tipped with 

 grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white tinged with brown. Pore 

 wing ash-grey irrorated with ochreous white ; an antemedial 

 whitish line, minutely dentate and bent inwards to inner margin, 

 often distinctly angled outwards in submedian fold ; the orbicular 

 and reniform defined by ochreous-white lines, the former either 

 round or elongate, the latter constricted at middle ; an obliquely 

 curved dentate postmedial line ; an indistinct irregularly waved 

 subterminal line; a pale ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and terminal area pale brown ; cilia white. 

 Underside of both wings with brownish discoidal luuule and post- 

 medial line obsolescent except towards costa. 



Hah. Alps of Prance, Leech Coll. ; Swixzeeland, 1 J , 5 5 , 

 Zeller and Prey Colls. ; Italy ; Atjsxkia, Styria ; Hungary, Leech 

 Coll., 1 6 Grote Coll. Exp. 44 millim. The locality Colorado 

 for the species is incorrect. 



Subsp. 1. taurica. Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 370 (1878). 



Pore wing with the markings pale ochreous instead of white. 



Hah. Asia Minor, Taurus ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul, 1 d . 



408. Euxoa caeiiis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 11.) 



Agrotis cmnis, Grole, N. Am. Eut. i. p. 44 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 94. 

 Agrotis muscosa, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 26 (1883). 



5 . Head and thorax grey pencilled with brown ; many of the 

 hairs tipped with crimson ; abdomen grey-white tinged with ochreous 

 brown, and with some crimson on ventral surface. Pore wing grey, 

 suffused and irrorated with crimson ; some black p'oints on costa ; 

 the orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined by crimson suffusion 

 before and beyond them, the former round, the latter with fuscous 



