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small dentate marks with a brownish shade before it on costal area ; 

 a terminal series of black points and often some brownish suffusion 

 on termen. Hind wing brownish grey ; a brownish discoidal lunule 

 and curved postmedial line ; the termen tinged with brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Greenland ; Canada, Labrador, 1 c? » 1 $ ; U.S.A., JN'ew 

 Hampshire, Mt. Washington 2 5 type, Grrote Coll. ; jS"okwat in 

 Coll. Pungeler, Dovrefeld. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



Larva. Packard, Eept. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr. Haydeii, 1873, p. 556 (1874). 



Head dark. Body dark ; dorsal line whitish, interrupted, sub- 

 dorsal similar ; finely marked with whitish. — H. G. D. 



*485. Euxoa tristicula. (Plate LXIX. fig. 13.) 



Agrotis tristicula, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 429 ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 100. 



Pale, somewhat luteous grey ; tegulae with a black band. Fore 

 wing with the lines almost obsolete ; a black streak below base of 

 cell : orbicular and reniform defined by a triangular black spot in 

 cell before the former and a quadrate patch between them ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of fuscous spots. Hind wing 

 pale, the terminal area tinged with fuscous ; the underside with 

 rather ill-defined dark discoidal lunule. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine. Exp. 37 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me ; figured from a drawing from tvpe in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & 

 Sci. 



486. Euxoa munis. (Plate LXV. fig. 6.) 



Agrotis munis, Grote, N. Am. Eat. i. p. 38 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 100. 

 Agrotis suUatis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 91 (1880). 



Head and thorax grey, the scales tipped with brown ; palpi and 

 legs strongly tinged with brown ; abdomen grey, irrorated with 

 black and more or less tinged with ochreous towards extremity. 

 Pore wing grey, irrorated with dark brown ; the subbasal line dark, 

 waved, extending from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 

 line slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved below cell and 

 very strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; the claviform 

 usually prominent and with dark outline, the cell dark brown before 

 and between the stigmata, which are grey defined by whitish and 

 dark lines, the orbicular round or somewhat elliptical, the reniform 

 large ; a more or less prominent dentate medial line from cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line 

 formed by a series of small dentate marks angled outwards at veins 

 7 and 4; the termen slightly darker and with a series of black 

 points. Hind wing whitish, strongly tinged with brown, especially 

 on terminal area ; the veins brown ; a slight discoidal lunule ; 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; 



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