256 



NOCIUID^. 



irrorated with fuscous, ■ a promineut discoidal lunule and strong 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Dakota, Washington, Pullman, Oregon, Corvallis, 

 1 $ . Exjj. 3(j millim. 



450. Euxoa messoria. 



Agrotis messo7"ia, Harris, Eep. Ins. Mass. p. 324 (1841); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



K. Am. p. 96. 

 Agrotis spissa, Giien. Noct. i. p. 261 (1852). 

 Mamestra insulsa, Wlk. ix. 234 (185()). 

 Mamestra inextricata, Wlk. sxxii. 658 (1865). 

 Mamestra indirecta, Wlk. xxxii. 659 (1865). 

 Mamestra dispMciens, Wlk. xxxii. 660 (1865). 

 Mamestra expulsa, Wlk. xxxii. 661 (1865). 

 Agrotis ordinata, Wlk. xxxii. 691 (1865). 

 Agrotis reticens, Wlk. xxxii. 692 (1865). 

 Agrotis cochrani, Rilev, Prairie Fartiipr, July 1868. 

 Agrotis repentis, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Eat. See. 1. p. 350, pi. 7. f. 58 



(1868). 

 Agrotis confracta, Morr. MS., Smith, Bull. U.S. Mus. 38. p. 169 (1890). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-brown ; abdomen 

 rather paler brown. Fore wing grey-brown, irrorated and suffused 

 with dark brown ; a double, waved, subbasal black line from costa to 

 A'ein 1 ; a double, waved, antemedial line angled outwards below 

 costa and above inner margin : the claviform outlined with black and 

 usually indistinct ; the orbicular and reniform with dark outlines, 

 the former rounded, oblique, elliptical, elongate, or sometimes trian- 

 gular and open above, the latter large; a strongly dentate postmedial 



Fig. 61. — Euxoa messoria, (^ . i. 



line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 an irregularly sinuous subterminal line, usually with some dark 

 marks on its inner edge, especially on costa, and the area beyond it 

 rather darker ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia brown, with 

 fine grey lines through them. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brown, the veins, costal, terminal and inner areas brown. Under- 

 side with the terminal area of fore wing and the costal and terminal 

 areas of hind wing irrorated with brown ; both Avings with discoidal 

 spot and indistinct curved postmedial hue. 



Hab. Cai^ada, Nova Scotia (Redman) G d ,1 $ , (Norman) 3 cT , 

 1 ? , Ontario 1 c? , Renfrew Co. 1 c? , W. Canada, Orilla (Buslie) 1 $ 

 type insulsa, Vancouver I. (Hawldns, J. J. WalJcer), 6 $ type 



