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expulsa • U.S.A., Grote & Zeller Colls., 4 S , 4 $ , New York, 1 $ , 

 Washington Terr., 2 5 , Colorado {Bruce), 1 S , Nevada, 2 $ , Grote 

 Coll., California, 1 2 , Grote CoU. K%23. 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Eiley, Eep. Ent. 1885, p. 290, pi. iv. f. 6, & 1886, p. 270, pi. 7. f. 1 

 (Redescribed.) 



Head 3 millim., pale brown, reticulations paler, dividing both 

 the sides and a dark posterior shade into angiilar spots ; curved 

 vertical band distinct only at apex of clypeus and above, angled 

 inward, mottled above, iiody light brown, somewhat thin-skinned ; 

 cervical shield brown, divided by a pale dorsal line and a light rather 

 blotched subdorsal one. Dorsal space broadly pale, widened in the 

 incisures, faintly shaded with brown, defining the narrow pale dorsal 

 line ; lateral space rather darkly brown, showing faintly a pale sub- 

 dorsal line; substigmatal band broad, whitish, obscure. Tubercles 

 small, obscure, brown ; spiracles black. A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



451. Euxoa atropulverea. (Plate LXIV. fig. 9.) 

 Carneades atropulverea, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 428 (1900). 



$ . Head and thorax brownish grey mixed with fuscous ; abdomen 

 grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown, thickly irrorated 

 with black ; the subbasal line represented by obscure blackish points 

 below costa and cell ; the antemedial line very indistinct, double, 

 waved ; claviform very faintly indicated ; orbicular and reniform very 

 slightly defined by blackish scales ; medial shade obscure, angled at 

 median nervure, difi'used, the jjostmedial line indistinct, double, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; faint traces 

 of a subterminal line ; an indistinct terminal series of small blackish 

 lunules ; a fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish, 

 suffused with fuscous, especially towards termen ; cilia white ; the 

 underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a blackish discoidal bar. 



Bab. U.S.A., Colorado, Denver, 1 $ . Exjy. 40 millim. 



452. Euxoa micronyx. (Plate LXIV. fig. 10.) 



Agrotis micronyx, G-i'ote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 171 (1878) ; Smith,- Cat. 

 Noct. ]V. Am. p. 99. 



$ . Head and thorax dark red-brown, strongly mixed with grey 

 and slightly irrorated with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons 

 and vertex of head with some rufous hair ; tegulse with a black 

 medial line : spurs and tarsal joints banded with black ; abdomen 

 grey-brown. Fore wing dark brown strongly suffused with grey ; 

 a minutely dentate subbasal black line from costa to vein 1 ; the 

 antemedial line double, angled outwards in the interspaces, the inner 

 line indistinct; claviform moderate, distinctly outlined with black; 

 orbicular and renitorm outlined with black and with fuscous centres, 

 the former round, the latter large and sometimes with excrescence 

 on inner side ; a more or less distinct waved medial shade from cell 



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