270 NOCTUID^. 



tegulse with a more or less prominent medial black line ; abdomen 

 with the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing more or less 

 irrorated with black ; a subbasal line from costa to vein 1 angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; a sinuous antemedial black line ; the 

 claviform sometimes indistinctly outlined with black, the orbicular 

 and reniform more or less distinctly outlined with black, the former 

 elongate, the latter well developed ; the postmedial black line 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; an indistinct dentate subterminal line slightly defined 

 by greyish on outer side, a fine waved terminal line. Hind wing 

 brown ; underside with traces of discoidal spot and curved post- 

 medial line. 



The form' from Colorado is paler and greyer brown, the markings 

 of fore wing sometimes obsolescent, the hind wing paler towards 

 base. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver I., 1 cj" , 1 $ type Grote Coll. ; U.S.A., 

 Washington Terr., 1 $ , Louisiana, Colorado, 1 c? , 2 § , Grote Coll., 

 California ( WaUingJiam), 1 c? • JExp. 36-40 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 318 (1899). 



Head 2-7 millim., roughly shagreened, dark brown, a pale space 

 above the eyes on each side of lobe. Body dull sordid brown, the 

 skin somewhat translucent. Cervical shield brown, markings 

 obsolete. The pale dorsal line can be made out the whole length, 

 edged with a dark shade that is contracted at the incisures ; also a 

 dark shade at position of subdorsal line, leaving a pale space, 

 widening at the incisures ; spiracles black ; setse minute. Probably 

 a general feeder. — H. G. D. 



*479. Euxoa dreuseni. 



Agrotis drewseni, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1857, p. 302 ; Auriv. Bihang Vet.- 

 Akad. Handl. xv. p. 14, pi. 2. f. 7 (1890) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 97 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. 



Head and thorax dirty ash-grey ; tegulse with black line ; abdo- 

 men browner. Pore wing with the basal area dirty ash-grey, the 

 rest of wing dull reddish brown ; the subbasal line angled outwards 

 below costa and inwards in cell ; the antemedial line obliquely 

 waved, inwardly defined by whitish ; orbicular and reniform indis- 

 tinct, grey ; medial line distinct, black, excurved, somewhat incurved 

 in cell ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved and 

 dentate to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a 

 series of dark points. Hind wing and underside of both wings 

 grey, with dark terminal band. 



Hah. Gkeenland. Exp. 80 millim. This species is unknown to 

 me. 



*480. Euxoa fauna. 



Agrotis fauna, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xviii. p. 237 (1876); 

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



Dull reddish luteous slightly irrorated with black ; thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales. Fore wing with the lines indistinct, double ; 



