236 JfOCTCIDJE. 



sides ; antennae brown ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey, 

 rather thickly irrorated with dark brown ; a double waved subbasal 

 line from costa to vein 1 ; a double dentate antemedial line with 

 the inner line indistinct, more strongly toothed below costa and 

 above inner margin; a dentate medial line angled outwards to lower 

 angle of cell ; no trace of the stigmata ; a minutely dentate post- 

 medial line bent outwards below costa, then curved; a minutely 

 dentate subterminal line angled slightly outwards below costa and 

 at vein 3 ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing white; the veins 

 brownish ; the termen irrorated with fuscous. Underside of fore 

 "wing w^ith curved postmedial line, of hind wing with postmedial 

 series of points on the veins. 



$ . Hind wing brown ; the cilia whitish. 



Hah. Canada; U.S.A., N., E., & Middle States, Massachusetts, 

 1 d , 1 $ type, Grote Coll. Exp. 44 millim. 



*412. Euxoa sessile. (Tlate LXIII. fig. 15.) 

 Carncades sessile, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 431 (1900). 



Dull, even smoky grey ; palpi yellowish at tips ; head and 

 thorax clothed with rather llaLtened hair. Fore wing slightly 

 tinged with red ; subbasal line rather indistinct, double, interrupted, 

 blackish ; antemedial line double, fuscous, nearly erect from costa 

 to median nervure, excurved below cell and strongly above inner 

 margin ; claviform small, defined by fuscous ; orbicular irregularly 

 elliptical, oblique, defined by black ; reniform large, extending to 

 below cell, irregular and defined by black ; medial shade rather 

 broad, diffused and somewhat darkening the cell between the 

 stigmata; postmedial line double, the inner lunulate, the outer 

 more even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved; subterminal line hardly traceable except at costa where 

 it is defined by a dark shade before it ; an interrupted black 

 terminal line followed by a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing yellowish tinged with fuscous, paler at base, in male whitish 

 ■with a dusky discoidal spot; cilia white; the underside whitish, 

 with some dark irroration and a discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce), Hall Valley (Barnes). Exp., 

 c? 40, $ 42 millim. 



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

 type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*413. Euxoa testula. (Plate LXIII. fig. 16.) 

 Carneades testida. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 440 (PJOO). 



(S . Creamy grey irrorated Avith black ; tegulaj with a faint medial 

 line; thorax clothed with long flattened hair. Fore wing with all 

 the markings diffused, obscure ; subbasal line double, interrupted, 

 blackish ; antemedial line double, diffused at costa, then slender, 

 erect, excurved in interspaces ; claviform small, defined by a few 

 black scales only ; orbicular rounded, defined by black ; reniform 



