EuxoA. 269 



*476. Euxoa ternaria. (Plate LXIV. fig. 30.) 

 Carneadesternarius, Smith, Pr. U.S. ISI^at. Mus. xxii. p. 444 (1900). 



$ . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; tegulse with traces of medial 

 line ; abdomen fuscous grey. Fore wing dark dull reddish brown 

 obscurely irrorated with fuscous ; indistinct double, waved, subbasal 

 and antemedial lines, the former ending at submedian fold ; a 

 diffused black medial shade oblique towards eosta, slightly excurved 

 at median nervure, then erect ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, 

 minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct dark sub terminal line angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a slight terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing pale fuscous brown, the cilia whitish ; 

 the underside white, the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



The subterminal line of fore wing sometimes quite obsolete. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, in Coll. J. B. Smith. ExiJ. 36 millim. 



477. Euxoa insignata. (Plate LXIV. fig. 31.) 



Agrotis insignata, Wlk. x. 330 (1856). 



Agrotis pleuritica, Grote, Oheck-List, 1875, p. 47 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 97. 



(S . Head and thorax rufous brown, mixed with a few white 

 scales ; patagia with an oblique band of white scales ; abdomen 

 ochreous whitish, the extremity browner, the ventral surface 

 irrorated with rufous. Pore wing red-brown with a yellow gloss, 

 the veins, costal and inner areas grey-brown irrorated with white ; 

 a waved whitish subbasal line from costa to vein 1. defined by dark 

 lines ; a similar antemedial line excurved in submedian interspace 

 and strongly dentate above inner margin : claviform moderate, with 

 a dark edge ; orbicular and reniform grey, defined by black lines, 

 the former round, the latter oblique ; the postmedial line indistinct, 

 represented by a double series of dark points on the veins, excurved 

 from below costa to vein 3, then incurved : an indistinct white 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at veins 

 3, 4 ; a terminal series of smaH black lunules ; cilia dark red-brown. 

 Hind wing brownish white, the veins and terminal third brown ; a 

 dark terminal line ; cilia white, with a brown line near base ; under- 

 side with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a 

 discoidal spot and postmedial series of points on the veins, 



Hab. Canada, Nova Scotia {Redman), 2 $ type ; U.S.A., Maine, 

 Xew Hampshire, IST. New York, Grote Coll., 1 S type pleuritica, 

 Michigan, 1 $ , California ( Walsingham), 1 c? , S. Eaphael, 3 c? , 

 Grote Coll. Exp. 42 millim. 



478, Euxoa brunneigera. (Plate LXIV. fig. 32.) 



Agrotis brunneigera, Grote, Bull. BuiF. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 80 (1875) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 98. 



Dull reddish brown tinged with fuscous ; palpi black at sides • 



