248 NOCTUID.E. 



with ferruginous in cell between them, the orbicular round, 

 the reniform with fuscous centre ; the postmedial line minutely 

 dentate, black, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then 

 incurved, and with some fuscous sufEiision on its inner side ; the 

 termen fuscous, its inner edge representing the subterminal line, 

 which is siniTous and angled inwards at discal fold ; a terminal 

 series of dark points ; cilia rufous. Hind wing brown tinged 

 with fuscous, rather darker in female ; cilia pale brown at base^ 

 white at tips ; underside whitish, with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, curved postmedial 

 line, and terminal series of points. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia; U.S.A., Utah, California {Wcdsing- 

 7iam), 1 d" , 1 $ . ExjJ. 32 millim. 



436. Euxoa cursoria. 



Phalcena cursoria, Hiifn. Eerl. Mag. iii. p. 416 (1767) ; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 540; Boisd. Ic. Lep. Eur. pi. 79. f. 3; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 148. 

 Noctua mixta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 118 (1794). 

 Noctua sagitta, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 596 (1827). 

 Agrotis obscura, Staud. Oat. Lep. ed. ii. p. 86 (1871). 

 Aqrotis ces2ntis, Swinb. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 349, pi. 9. f. 4 ; Hmpsn. 



■ Moths Ind. ii. p. 184. 

 Agrotis sagittata, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 249 (1896) ; Herr.-Schaif. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 26. 

 Agrotis currens, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 249 (1896). 

 Agrotis vaga, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 250 (1896). 



Head and thorax grey, ochreous or red-brown, often irrorated 

 with darker brown or black : tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 ochreous or red-brown, usually with darker irroration ; a double, 

 waved, brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, 

 waved, antemedial line ; claviform usually with its extremity 

 defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform defined by brown,, 

 usually with greyish centres and whitish annuli, the former 

 oblique, elliptical, the latter usually with blackish patch in its 

 lower extremity : an indistinct oblique waved medial line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double,, 

 minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent out- 

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

 terminal line pale, defined on each side by brown and with darker 

 patches before and beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate 

 at veins 3, 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the terminal area tinged with brown ; the under- 

 side whiter, with dark discoidal point and terminal series of black 

 points. 



Ab. 1. vaga. Fore wings uniform brownish grey. — C. Asia. 



Ab. 2. currens. Darker ; hind wings entirely suffused with 

 brown. — C. Asia. 



Ab. 3. ohsciira. Fore wings almost uniform red or red-brown, 

 the orbicular and reniform prominently annulated with white. 



Ab, 4, sagittata. Fore wings suff"used with red-brown, the costal 



