ETJXOA. 23o 



centre ; faint traces of waved antemedial, postmedial, and sab- 

 terminalJines, the second bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 3, the last irregular; cilia brownish, with a tine pale 

 line at base. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with 

 brown. 



Hub. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow), 1 2 type. Exp. 42 millim. 



*409. Euxoa relaxa. (Plate LXIII. fig. 12.) 

 Carneades relaxus. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ssii. p. 432 (1900). 



Pale fuscous with a slight reddish tinge ; palpi blackish at sides, 

 yellowish at tips ; teguUe with an incomplete brown line near 

 extremities ; thorax clothed with flattened hair. Fore wing with 

 the markings fuscous ; subbasal line double, only marked below 

 costa and cell ; antemedial line double, the inner only marked at 

 costa, slightly oblique and somewhat excurved in interspaces ; 

 claviform obsolete ; orbicular round or elliptical, defined with fuscous 

 and sometimes with some dark scales at centre ; reniform large, 

 extending to a little below cell, defined by black scales and with 

 dusky centre ; medial shade indistinct, diffused ; postmedial line 

 double, the outer obsolete below vein 4, the inner crenulate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line pale, waved, slightly dentate at veins 3, 4, defined by 

 a dark shade before it and the area beyond it rather darker ; a 

 terminal series of small brown lunules. Hind wing pale yellowish, 

 tinged with fuscous on terminal area ; a slight discoidal lunule ; 

 cilia whitish ; the underside whitish with dark irroration. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, San Francisco, Sierra Nevada. Exp. 38 

 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph 

 from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*410. Euxoa vulpiiia. (Plate LXIII. fig. 13.) 

 Carneades mdipina. Smith, Ent. NewsPbilad. vi. p. 335, pi. xv. f. 5 (1805). 



c? . Dtill ashen grey; thorax clothed with loose hair. Fore 

 wing with the markings indistinct, the lines just traceable ; the 

 antemedial line oblique, waved ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular small 

 with paleannulus ; reniform represented by two parallel pale lines; 

 a fairly prominent diffused dusky medial shade ; postmedial line 

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

 incurved ; subterminal line represented by an indistinct series of 

 pale points. Hind wing pale greyish ; the underside still paler. 



Hob. Canada, Br. Columbia, Calgary {Bod). Exp. 37 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from 

 type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



411. Euxoa bostoniensis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 14.) 



Agrotis hostoniensis, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 203 ; Harv. 

 Bull. Buff. Soc. iii. p. 74, pi. 3. f. 7 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 94. 



J . Head and thorax grey pencilled with brown ; jialpi brown at 



