242 NOCTTJID^. 



Hah. Switzerland, High Alps, Gorner Grat, 3 6 , Frey Coll. 

 Exp. 42-46 millim. 



*423. Euxoa vallus. (Plate LXIII. fig. 22.) 



Carneades vallus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 430 (1900). 



$ . Pale luteous suiFused with pale grey ; palpi yellow in front, 

 fuscous at sides ; vertex of head and base of tegulae whitish, the 

 latter tipped with yellowish hair ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair, tipped with yellowish posteriorly. Fore wing thickly irrorated 

 with black, especially beyond the antemedial line ; the lines single ; 

 subbasal line distinct, blackish, excurved from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line fuscous, curved, excurved in interspaces especially 

 below cell ; orbicular moderate, round, rather paler than ground- 

 colour ; reniform moderate, with dusky centre and incomplete 

 outline ; medial shade broad, diffused, somewhat angled outwards 

 at middle ; postmedial line indistinct, crenulate, unusually near 

 termen, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique 

 subterminal line represented by an obscure series of dark spots 

 Hind wing pale fuscous grey, the terminal area hardly darker ; the 

 veins and diseoidal lunule rather darker ; the underside silky 

 yellowish grey, with blackish streak in cell, slight diseoidal spot 

 and traces of postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Laggan, 5000 ft. {Bean). Exp. 40 

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

 from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*424. Euxoa luteosita. (Plate LXIII. fig. 23.) 



Carneades lutcositus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 433 (1900). 



Dull luteous, the thorax and fore wing tinged with rufous ; 

 thorax clothed with hair. Fore wing with the basal and terminal 

 areas pale, the medial area shaded with rufous and blackish ; the 

 lines distinct ; the subbasal line single, waved from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line single, waved, somewhat excurved in 

 submedian fold ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular large, pale, rounded ; 

 reniform with dusky centre and pale annulus; medial shade 

 indistinct, diffused, more prominent in female; postmedial line 

 produced to slight points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; subterminal line very 

 even, defined by a series of small dentate dark marks on inner side ; 

 a terminal series of small lunules. Hind wing dark fuscous, paler 

 at base ; a dark diseoidal lunule ; cilia yellowish ; the underside 

 pale reddish luteous, a diseoidal lunule and incomplete postmedial 

 line. 



Antennae of male with the serrations slight and the fasciculate 

 cilia short. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Hall Valley {Barnes). Exp. 36 millim. 

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

 type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



