252 



NOCTUID^. 



black, defined bj^ pale brownish on outer side, minutely dentate, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 the subterminal line pale, defined by a fuscous shade on inner side, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa and excurved at middle ; 

 a fine waved black terminal line. Hind wing ochreous brown, the 

 veins and terminal area rather darker ; cilia white at tips ; 

 the underside irrorated with brown, with small discoidal lunule 

 and traces of postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hab. U.S.A., Washington Terr., 1 J , 2 $ , Grote Coll. type, 

 Colorado. Exy., S 36, $ 38 millim. 



*442. Euxoa holoberba. (Plate LXIV. fig. 2.) 



Carneades holoberba, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mas. xxii. p. 443 (1900); id. Can. 

 Ent. xxxii. pi. v. f. 9. 



2 • Dull fuscous brown with a purplish shade ; tegulae with 

 distinct black medial line, with purplish grey above it ; thorax 

 clothed with scales and flattened hair. Fore wing with the 

 markings distinct, the lines blackish, double, filled in with rather 

 pale colour ; subbasal line evenly excurved ; antemedial line erect 

 or slightly oblique, slightly waved, the inner line less distinct ; 

 claviform small, defined by black and a few pale scales ; orbicular 

 small or moderate, round or elliptical, pale, with a few dark scales 

 at centre ; reniform moderate, incomplete above and below, its 

 centre defined by black, and with pale annulus defined by brown ; 

 the cell slightly darker between the stigmata, medial shade in- 

 distinct ; postmedial line sharply bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line distinct, 

 pale, more or less interrupted, somewhat angled outwards at 

 veins 7, 4, 3, defined on inner side by a somewhat dentate shade 

 and the area beyond it somewhat darker ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. Hind wing dull fuscous brown ; cilia somewhat 

 paler ; the underside fuscous with darker irroration, a discoidal 

 spot and postmedial line. 



Hccb. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (Dod). Exp. 38 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from type in 

 U.S. jS'at. Mus. 



443. Euxoa intolerabilis. (Plate LXIV. fig. 3.) 

 Agrotis intolerabilis, Piing. Iris, xv. p. 147 (1902). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 yellowish brown. Pore wing dark brown, suffused with purplish 

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

 a double, waved, antemedial line ; claviform represented by a 

 slight dark point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform slightly 

 defined by blackish, the former round, an indistinct waved medial 

 line passing between them ; the postmedial line dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; traces of a pale sub- 



