244 NociuiD^. 



*428. Euxoa comosa. 



Agrotis comosa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 238 (1876) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 95. 



(S . llather pale brick-red ; thorax clothed with hair. Fore 

 wing with the lines blackish ; antemedial line double, erect, ex- 

 curved in interspaces ; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform 

 dusky lunulate ; medial shade well-defined, erect, almost in middle 

 of medial area; postmedial line single, very strongly crenulate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line sinuous, defined on inner side by a dark shade, 

 the area beyond it rather dark. Hind wing reddish fuscous : the 

 underside irrorated with reddish, an indistinct discoidal spot and 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado. Exp. 37 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



*429. Euxoa dacota, 



Carneades daJcota, Smith, P, U,S. Nat. Miis. xxii. p. 442 (1900), 



(S . Clay-yellow irrorated with fuscous ; thorax clothed with 

 coarse, somewhat flattened hair. Pore wing with the markings 

 blackish ; subbasal line prominent, double, the two parts well 

 separated ; antemedial line with double spots at costa, then single, 

 erect or somewhat oblique, excurved in interspaces and defined by 

 pale colour on inner side ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular obsolete or 

 represented by a dark point ; reniform blackish or fuscous ; medial 

 shade broad, diffused, almost erect ; postmedial line double at costa, 

 then single, slender, crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then obliquely incurved ; subterminal line represented 

 by a slight dark shade ; a terminal series of fuscous lunules. Hind 

 wing dirty grey at base, the terminal area fuscous : cilia nearly 

 white ; the underside whitish with dark irroration, a dark dis- 

 coidal lunule and postmedial line. 



Hah. U,S,A., Dakota, Ex2y. 32-34 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. , 



430. Euxoa brocha. (Plate LXIII. fig. 25,) 



Agrotis brocha, Morr. Proc. Ac, Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 56 ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 90. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey with a slight purplish 

 tinge, some of the scales tipped with brown, especially on patagia ; 

 palpi black-brown at sides, except towards tips ; tegulse with the 

 basal half and front of thorax black-brown ; legs tinged with 

 brown. Pore wing purplish grey, irrorated with black, the costal 

 half striated and sufi'used with red-brown ; faint traces of a rufous 

 antemedial line ; orbicular a fuscous point ; reniform small, fuscous, 

 with a somewhat oblique rufous line from it to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line represented by an oblique series of very short black 

 streaks on veins 6 to 1 ; traces of a sinuous rufous subterminal 

 line ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia pale, with two 



