EcxoA. 239 



brownishi ; the underside with discal poiut and some postmedial 

 points on the veins. 



2 . Hind wing sufEnsed with brown except in cell, the underside 

 with discoidal Innule and curved postmedial line. 



Bab. U. 8. k., Colorado (Bnice), 1 $, Calit'ovn'm {Wahingham), 

 10 2 , Sanzalito, 4^,7$ type. E.iy. 44 millim. 



*418. Euxoa difformis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 21.) 

 Carneades difformis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 441 (ISOO). 



Dull grej- or fuscous with dark irroratiou ; tegulse with fuscous 

 medial line ; thorax clothed with fine hair mixed with flattened hair. 

 Fore wing with the markings rather coarse ; subbasal line double, 

 black, slender, very close to base ; antemediai line oblique, double, 

 excurved in interspaces and interrupted at the veins, the inner line 

 fine, brown, the outer strong, black ; claviform small, almost obsolete 

 or fairly prominent; orbicular moderate or small, rounded, grey 

 defined by black ; reniform moderate or rather small, somewhat 

 constricted at middle, with fuscous centre and fine black outline ; 

 medial shade shghtly curved ; postmedial line double, the outer even, 

 brown, the inner strong black or fuscous, lanulate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 irregularly sinuous, grey, defined on inner side by a broad irregular 

 shade often intersected with grey at veins, the terminal area with 

 dusky irroration ; a terminal series of black or brown lunules ; 

 cilia yellowish fuscous. Hind wing white, with a yellowish tinge 

 in male, yellowish tinged with fuscous in female, the veins and a 

 discoidal lunule darker ; the male with traces of postmedial line, 

 the area beyond it slightly tinged with fuscous; a dark terminal 

 line ; the underside whitish, with distinct discoidal spot and broad 

 blackish postmedial line. 



Antenufe with the serrations long. 



Hab. U.S.A., Oregon (/Sc/ta^s). -fi'.t.ju. 30-33 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a photogrLi,ph from type in U.S. 

 Nat. Mas. 



419. Euxoa grisescens. 



Noctua griscscens, Fabr. Eat. Syst. .3, ii. p. 1 10 (1794) ; Treit. Schmett. Eur. 



V. i. p. Vdo ; HeiT.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur., JSfoct. ii. p. 332, f. 418 • 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 

 Noctua candelisequa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 493 (1827). 

 ^! Noctua ignicola, Hiibu. Eur. Schmett,, Noct. f. 54li (1827). 

 Agrotis corrcsa, Herr.-Sehatf. Eur. Schmett., Noct. 1'. 141 (1845). 

 Agrotis latens, Bcisd. lo. Lep. Eur. pi. 180. f. 2 (1832). 

 Agrotis thianschanica, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 339 (1899). 

 Agrotis hyrcana, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 339 (1899). 



Head and thorax brownish grey tinged with fuscous; palpi 

 blackish except at tips ; legs blackish, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen brownish grey, dorsally irrorated with fuscous. Eore 

 wing brownish grey irrorated with black ; a waved black subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved black antemediai 

 line, slightly angled outw;irds below costa ; orbicular and reniform 



